Film: MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY #1 September 30, 2010

This film screening is part of the Milwaukee Film Festival.

After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy No. 1 and is eventually condemned to a maximum-security prison. Staging a daring escape, Mesrine disappears into the lawless underworld and reinvents himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media.

"Mesrine is…muscular, forthright storytelling, hard-smoking, hard-drinking action, horribly incorrect attitudes, brutality with a top-note of self-loathing, bushy moustaches and a cracking lead performance from Vincent Cassel as Mesrine."—Peter Bradshaw, Guardian UK

France, Italy, Canada, 2008, 133 min
In French with English subtitles
Directed By: Jean- François Richet

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