Le Pharmacien de garde (2003) Repost

Avec Vincent Perez, Atmen Kelif, Pascal Legitimus, Alice Taglioni, Kad Merad, Guillaume Depardieu..

Sympathique et affable lorsqu’il est derrière le comptoir de sa pharmacie, Yan Lazarrec (Vincent Perez) se métamorphose la nuit en justicier de la cause écolo, trucidant au moyen de poisons de sa fabrication les pollueurs en tous genres. Lors d’une conférence sur l’écologie, il se prend d’amitié pour François Barrier (Guillaume Depardieu) sans savoir qu’il est le flic chargé d’enquêter sur ses crimes…

Described by its author, first-time director Jean Veber, as a mix of thriller, horror and humor, The Pharmacist is the tale of an environmentalist whose crusade cuts a bloody path as he murders high-profile symbols of ecological nuisance—a tobacco industry tsar and the head of a cosmetics company, among others. Yann Lazarrec, a pharmacist, is the anti-hero of a good cause and the fact that he closely resembles a French heartthrob (Vincent Perez sporting a messy hair-cut) makes it clear that the director wants us to sympathize with his main character despite his taste for serial-killing. When Yann hears Francois Barrier (Guillaume Depardieu) claim at a conference that ecology must be fought as a war, we know that it's love at first sight at an ideological level. Of course it turns out that Francois is the very cop on his tail, but also a troubled soul tortured by his wife's infidelity