The first thing that needs to be explained about this French import from writer/director/actress Maïwenn Le Besco is the title: no, “polisse” is not some obscure word too sophisticated to have come up ...

about the professional and private lives of the men and women on the Child Protection Unit of the Paris police. Faced with a daily diet of ghastly crimes, struggling to keep the horrors and stresses ...

Other cops look down at them, and their home lives are in a shambles. But the members of the Parisian Child Protection Unit in the gripping drama”Polisse”face their work each day with absolute urgency ...

Actress-turned-director Maïwenn, best known to American audiences for a supporting role in her ex-husband Luc Besson‘s The Fifth Element, is poised with her Cannes-winning Polisse, which opens this ...

“You try to handle it on a case-by-case basis,” one member of Paris’ Child Protection Unit says, when asked about the emotional implications of his job. He deals with victims of incest, pedophilia, ...

The director Maiwenn Le Besco, who goes by just Maiwenn in her professional life, has become a major French director in just the past few years. Her style is immediate and documentarylike, with some ...

The French actress and filmmaker Maiewenn is tall and strikingly beautiful. Her face and bearing seem to have been designed to turn heads on the red carpet in Cannes, where her latest film, “Polisse,” ...

“Polisse” feels like the two-hour pilot for the kind of meaty cop drama that could only exist on cable television, one you’d want to program into your DVR to watch all season long. The subject matter ...

Robert Siegel talks to French director and actor Maiwenn about her crime drama Polisse. The film follows the daily lives of a tightly-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of ...

The director, co-writer and star of French film Polisse says challenges are grist to her mill. "I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue, I like to talk with people, I like ...

A huge hit in France, "Polisse" marks the maturation of writer-director Maiwenn Le Besco (known professionally as Maiwenn). Having developed her own raw and immediate style over two previous features, ...

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