Theatr Mwldan Film Society / Cymdeithas Ffilm Theatr Mwldan

Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’

The concluding part in the tale of the life of the French gangster. Since he was killed in a hail of police bullets in 1979, Jacques Mesrine has been elevated to the status of legend both by his detractors – to whom he was a monster – and his fans, to whom he was a misunderstood hero battling the establishment on behalf of the masses. Was he an anti-establishment icon? Or just a shameless gangster who got the ending he deserved?

Rhân olaf stori bywyd y gangster Ffrengig. Ers iddo gael ei ladd gan fwledi’r heddlu ym 1979, y mae wedi ei ddyrchafu at statws chwedlonol gan ei edmygwyr a’i ddifriwyr. Icon neu ddihiryn?

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Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’

The concluding part in the tale of the life of the French gangster.  Since he was killed in a hail of police bullets in 1979, Jacques Mesrine has been elevated to the status of legend both by his detractors – to whom he was a monster – and his fans, to whom he was a misunderstood hero battling the establishment on behalf of the masses.  Was he an anti-establishment icon? Or just a shameless gangster who got the ending he deserved? 

Rhân olaf stori bywyd y gangster Ffrengig. Ers iddo gael ei ladd gan fwledi’r heddlu ym 1979, y mae wedi ei ddyrchafu at statws chwedlonol gan ei edmygwyr a’i ddifriwyr. Icon neu ddihiryn?

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Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’| 15

The first installment of a two part biopic of France’s public enemy No 1, the pathologically violent gangster Jacques Mesrine, who claimed to have killed 43 people and staged a jailbreak from every prison he was sent to. Retracing Mesrine’s steps through his first ventures in the criminal underworld to his Bonnie and Clyde-esque escape to Canada with his lover, Mesrine: L’Instinct de Mort is an unflinching depiction of a man on the edge of psychological stability.

Rhan gyntaf o biopig am brif elyn Ffrainc, y gangster treisiol Jacques Mesrine, a honnodd ei fod wedi llofruddio 43 o bobl a dianc o bob carchar y bu ynddo. Mae’r ffilm yn bortread diysgog o ddyn ar ymyl sefydlogrwydd seicolegol.

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Jean-Francois Richet | 2008 | 113’|  15

The first installment of a two part biopic of France’s public enemy No 1, the pathologically violent gangster Jacques Mesrine, who claimed to have killed 43 people and staged a jailbreak from every prison he was sent to. Retracing Mesrine’s steps through his first ventures in the criminal underworld to his Bonnie and Clyde-esque escape to Canada with his lover, Mesrine: L’Instinct de Mort is an unflinching depiction of a man on the edge of psychological stability.

Rhan gyntaf o biopig am brif elyn Ffrainc, y gangster treisiol Jacques Mesrine, a honnodd ei fod wedi llofruddio 43 o bobl a dianc o bob carchar y bu ynddo.  Mae’r ffilm yn bortread diysgog o ddyn ar ymyl sefydlogrwydd seicolegol.

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