Directed by:
Frédéric TellierCinematography:
Renaud ChassaingComposer:
Christophe LapintaCast:
Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Rottiers, Chloé Stefani, Sami Bouajila, Damien Bonnard, Rosa Bursztein, Lorene Devienne, Amélie BénadyPlots(1)
Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, be puts himself in danger, to save his men. He wakes up in a Burns Centre and realizes his face melted in the flames. He’s going to have to leam to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time. (Transilvania International Film Festival)
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I really enjoyed the first half hour showing the daily routine of firefighters in Paris. However, Through the Fire then turns into a heartbreaking and emotionally draining drama about a testing situation that adversely changes a firefighter’s life forever. At that moment, it is a biased drama about a public servant’s tragedy, which begins to drag slightly towards the end. Maybe the main character is too corny, verging on clichéd (a successful young man with a loving wife and two small children). Also, he irrationally stays in an environment, where an ordinary firefighter would not set a foot near it (as soon as flames are swirling around the ceiling above you, you are definitely in the wrong place, I learned that from The Towering Inferno, which is almost 50 years old, and I am not a firefighter). So, it is basically an over-simplified drama that deals more with the effects of an unfortunate accident than its causes, which watching it held no surprises for me, and therefore it was not to my liking. [LFŠ 2019]
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