Mesrine | |
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Directed by | Jean-François Richet |
Written by | Abdel Raouf Dafri Jean-François Richet |
Produced by | Thomas Langmann André Rouleau Maxime Rémillard |
Starring | Vincent Cassel |
Cinematography | Robert Gantz |
Edited by | Part One: Eloi Painchaud Part Two: Bill Pankow Hervé Schneid |
Music by | Part One: Eloi Painchaud Part Two: Marco Beltrami Marcus Trumpp |
Distributed by | Pathé (France and Switzerland) Alliance Films (Canada and United Kingdom)[1] |
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Running time | 246 minutes Part One: 113 minutes Part Two: 133 minutes |
Countries | France Canada |
Languages | French Spanish English |
Budget | $50 million[2] |
Box office | $46.3 million[3] |
Mesrine is a two-part 2008 French biographical crime film on the life of French gangster Jacques Mesrine, directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Richet. The first part, Mesrine: Killer Instinct, was based on Mesrine's autobiographical book L'instinct de mort, while the second part, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, detailed Mesrine's criminal career. The film has earned comparisons to the American film Scarface, and Vincent Cassel earned rave reviews for his portrayal of Mesrine.[4][5][6]