Easier to admire than it is to sit through, the French film 13 (Tzameti) is an exercise in stylish depravity that may one day be viewed as the debut of a great filmmaker.
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13 Tzameti
Overview
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
Director and cast
- Gela Babluani Director
- Giorgi Babluani as Sebastien
- Aurélien Recoing as Jacky
- Pascal Bongard as Le maître de cérémonie
- Fred Ulysse as Alain
- Nicolas Pignon as Romain
- Vania Vilers as M. Schloendorf
- Christophe Vandevelde as Ludo
- ოლგა ლეგრანი as Christine Godon
- Augustin Legrand as José
- Philippe Passon as Jean-François Godon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.
It may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism.
The Georgian-born French director Gela Babluani makes an absorbing debut with this black-and-white thriller.
Gela Babluani, according to the film's sparse press kit, is only 26 years old but already knows more about suspense than some filmmakers learn in a career.
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