2nd Letterboxd Film Festival.

Just like The Baader Mienhof Complex, Outside the Law shows the struggles a group of revolutionaries has against an opressive regime, but in the case of Outside the Law you are firmly on their side. The seeds are sewn when the family are forced off thier land in Algeria. Two of the brothers join the FLN to fight from the inside in Paris, the other brother turns to crime, but makes money for the cause through his business.

I liked the film and was firmly behind the brothers, but it never grabbed me as much as it should.

Week 8 of the 2nd Letterboxd Film Festival.

It's a shame about this film. The basic story has potential for a great screenplay, but the one we get is so dull. The characters always had such simple uninspiring dialogue. Even though the film was over two hours I was not compelled to have much sympathy for the characters. Maybe it's because of the jumps in time, glossing over periods in their lives. It's like they're saying "just go with it." Instead I went to sleep- more than once on repeated attempts to finish the film. The movie is about three brothers from Algeria, two of which become heavily involved with an Algerian revolution. The younger brother, who gets into boxing and nightclub management, is the more interesting character, albeit only slightly, because of the acting and the way he was written. It should not have been that way.

This is the eighth film in the Second Letterboxd Festival.

Outside the Law is a historical drama/gangster movie that generally fails to be effective in either aspect.

As a historical work, the film failed to get me interested in the topic due to a dull sense of pacing and jittery sense of place and time that was constantly shifting for no reason other than to include too much information that didn't need to be there. The characters could have been interesting, but I again found them very bland. As a gangster film, Outside the Law fairs a little better, but just barely. There is the groundwork for a great dynamic between the brothers and their different approaches to their situations, yet once more between the filmmaking style and poorly fleshed out characters I was left distant, unconnected, and eventually flat out bored with what was being shown on screen.

Será que funciona fazer um épico dramático sobre a luta pela independência da Argélia dos franceses, logo após a 2ª guerra mundial e colocar-nos um pressentimento que estamos a ver um film noir gangster? Fica a tentativa energética de criar algo de novo, e isto foi o que me meteu interessado até o final.

From France, tells the tale of the Algerian freedom fighters (FLN) who took the fight to French soil in their bid to gain independence.

There's a scene in Ghandi when the British let loose the machine guns on a peaceful demonstration, hundreds are killed. Well such acts of barbarism weren't isolated to the British. When the French looked back at their glorious history they will also have good reason the hang their heads in shame.

The Algerian fight for independence is a period of history that I am non too familiar with so this was an interesting and educational, if at times brutal watch.

This is the eighth film in the Second Letterboxd Festival.

Outside the Law is a historical drama/gangster movie that generally fails to be effective in either aspect.

As a historical work, the film failed to get me interested in the topic due to a dull sense of pacing and jittery sense of place and time that was constantly shifting for no reason other than to include too much information that didn't need to be there. The characters could have been interesting, but I again found them very bland. As a gangster film, Outside the Law fairs a little better, but just barely. There is the groundwork for a great dynamic between the brothers and their different approaches to their situations, yet once more between the filmmaking style and poorly fleshed out characters I was left distant, unconnected, and eventually flat out bored with what was being shown on screen.

2nd Letterboxd Film Festival.

Just like The Baader Mienhof Complex, Outside the Law shows the struggles a group of revolutionaries has against an opressive regime, but in the case of Outside the Law you are firmly on their side. The seeds are sewn when the family are forced off thier land in Algeria. Two of the brothers join the FLN to fight from the inside in Paris, the other brother turns to crime, but makes money for the cause through his business.

I liked the film and was firmly behind the brothers, but it never grabbed me as much as it should.

Week 8 of the 2nd Letterboxd Film Festival.

It's a shame about this film. The basic story has potential for a great screenplay, but the one we get is so dull. The characters always had such simple uninspiring dialogue. Even though the film was over two hours I was not compelled to have much sympathy for the characters. Maybe it's because of the jumps in time, glossing over periods in their lives. It's like they're saying "just go with it." Instead I went to sleep- more than once on repeated attempts to finish the film. The movie is about three brothers from Algeria, two of which become heavily involved with an Algerian revolution. The younger brother, who gets into boxing and nightclub management, is the more interesting character, albeit only slightly, because of the acting and the way he was written. It should not have been that way.

Set after the end of ww2 and the struggle with algiers struggle for independence from france(a brilliant credit sequence shows through archive footage, nazi ocupation of france which of course leads into France ocupation of Algiers, A comment if ever there was one. we then follow a family of brothers who very much suffered from events, and their involvment into their terrorist group. a gripping film at times and tells its story well, delving into diferent opinions from the people and politics and corruption getting its way.