Synopsis
When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger their lives.
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Cast
- Matthias SchoenaertsGino 'Gigi'
- Adèle ExarchopoulosBénédicte 'Bibi'
- Éric De StaerckeFreddy
- Jean-Benoît UgeuxSerge
- Nabil MissoumiYounes
- Fabien MagryEric 'Le Chauve'
- Gianni La RoccaMike 'Le Râble'
- Thomas CoumansBernard 'Nardo'
- Nathalie Van TongelenSandra / Géraldine
- Anaëlle PotdevinStéphanie
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One of the most undersung and most potent pleasures of genre cinema is the excuse it has given us, time and again, to watch attractive people fall in love with each other, and if you’re in a romantic frame of mind, Racer and the Jailbird delivers so wholly on that front that it goes a fair way toward compensating for the film’s deficiencies elsewhere. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Racer and the Jailbird remains absorbing throughout, thanks primarily to the two leads, who are both almost frighteningly believable as lovers willing to risk everything to stay together. - 60
Screen Daily
An indulgent 130-minute running time and a plot that wildly over-stretches sees Racer ultimately bounce off the rails. - 60
Variety
The whole thing becomes drenched in a kind of downbeat sentimental martyrdom that feels oppressively old-fashioned and moribund. - 58
The A.V. Club
Despite Bibi’s need for speed, Racer And The Jailbird sputters more than it guns. - 50
IndieWire
Racer and the Jailbird speeds along at an engaging clip, but never overcomes the fundamental simplicity of its plot. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Schoenaerts is his usual, intense self, Exarchopoulos has here found her best role since Blue and there’s no denying their chemistry is wild. But their characters become prisoners of the many twists and turns of the narrative instead of rising above it; their personalities aren’t revealed through the story so much as they are constrained by it. - 50
The New York Times
The two leads are sensational, but the movie, drained of its life force and stuffed with confusing plot complications — like a shoehorned-in undercover agent and some mysterious Albanians — never recovers.
