REVIEW: Julien Leclercq's CHRYSALIS
I sincerely believe there are three kinds of cinema – American, Indian and French. We all know about American films. But I'm glad that henceforth movie buffs in India and France will get to know more about each other via this exchange process," said an elated Julien Leclercq, a French director. He had come all the way to Mumbai, to initiate the audience to his style of filmmaking, just before the screening of his film Chrysalis (Avatar), part of the 1st Rendezvous with French Cinema in India.
What is the film all about:
It has all the trappings of a futuristic sci-fi, featuring some great fight sequences and mind-boggling sets. Set in Paris, the film sees Lieutenant David Hoffman (Albert Dupontel) in his search for a notorious killer. Hoffman investigates the circumstances behind the body of a young girl who has strange scars around her eyes. He finds a connection between the murder and Dimitri Nicolov, a killer responsible for his wife's death. Hoffman's investigation leads him to a state-of-the-art plastic surgery clinic, where he discovers something really unnerving… The story eventually delves into the depths of murder and issues like altering memory and dreams in order to acquire an entirely new avatar.
