Les 7 jours du Talion (2010)

	Also Known As: 7 Days
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Daniel Grou
	Actors: Claude Legault, Rémy Girard, Martin Dubreuil
	Country: CDN
	Genre: Drama, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 18.08.2013, DVD, 32" TV
Synopsis: Bruno (Legault) manages to kidnap the rapist and killer of his daughter.
Review: The movie was recommended to me by a friend who has two young daughters. The Talion is the ancien law that is ususally simply expressed by "An eye for an eye", meaning that you punish a wrong with a wrong of the same amplitude. It is a revenge movie shot in a realistic and believable way. The torture scenes quite early in the movie make it look like any random American torture-porn movie (Saw, Hostel, ...) but many details differenciate it: the slow rythm and rarity of dialogs, the framing (many travellings from left to right, and framing of people to the right side of the screen and looking to the left, for a bizarre effect), the stopping of torture scenes after a while, the absence of twists in the screenplay, and the deeper reflexion on the vertue of punishment. This simple movie is indeed very efficient and though-provoking. The conclusion of the movie are well summarized in the last sentences (spoiler, highlight to read): Journalist: "Do you still believe Vengeance is the answer?" Bruno: "No". Journalist: "So you regret having done what you did?" Bruno: "No".
Rating: 7 /10