| Forces spéciales | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Stéphane Rybojad |
| Produced by | Thierry Marro Benoit Ponsaillé |
| Screenplay by | Michael Cooper Stéphane Rybojad |
| Starring | Diane Kruger[1] Djimon Hounsou Benoît Magimel Mehdi Nebbou Tchéky Karyo |
| Music by | Xavier Berthelot |
| Cinematography | David Jankowski |
| Editing by | Erwan Pecher |
| Studio | Easy Company |
| Distributed by | Studio Canal |
| Release date(s) | November 2, 2011 |
| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French English |
| Budget | 10,000,000 € (estimated) |
Forces spéciales is a 2011 French war adventure film by Stéphane Rybojad which was shot in France, Djibouti and Tajikistan. The film shows a little group of elite soldiers on a hopeless mission. Forces spéciales is mainly in French, though also partly in English. Whether the film will be presented to English-speaking audiences as a dubbed or subtitled version has not been announced yet.
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In Afghanistan a renowned journalist, Elsa Casanova (Diane Kruger), is ambushed and kidnapped. Her captors kill her attendant immediately and take her to a hiding place and, in order to make their point, announce their intent to put her to death. Her only chance is a rescue by a special forces team. After the unit has managed to rescue her, they need to take a route which leads through one of Pakistan's tribal-ruled areas. Once the local population encounters the heavily armed foreign soldiers, the planned escape rapidly derails. Elsa opposes the military means applied by her saviours but nonetheless they all together must run for dear life. Their situation exacerbates when their new fight is brought to the attention of Elsa's kidnappers who also join the chase and even use helicopters to hunt them all down. If any of them shall survive some of them have to sacrifice themselves.
While filming the action scenes, the actors were overseen and advised by French naval special forces according to the press folder available on the official site. Moreover one of their former chief instructors (Alain Alivon) played his own role.
...the film is hideously over-directed, with more swooping helicopter shots than you would have thought humanly possible – basically, if a long shot can't be done by zipping past in a helicopter, Rybojad isn't interested.—Matthew Turner – The ViewAuckland [2]
"With a strong cast featuring Diane Kruger and Djimon Hounsou, a powerful story and some sharp cinematography, this tense French action drama about the kidnapping of a journalist in Afghanistan is a nice change to your usual French cinema."
...Stéphane Rybojad’s film instantly marks itself out as a kind of hyper-macho war advertisement for those who enjoy gun porn and hours poring over Call of Duty—Paul Weedon – Little White Lies [4]
Le Figaro wrote the film was not really a war movie but had more resemblance to an army commercial. [5]
