Senselessness. This film transmits rather well the results of a very common and dangerous mix: ignorance and frustration. Ignorance due to a partial and limited understanding of social dynamics and frustration due to being in the oppressed side. They both result in an aimless rage, an untargeted and random attack to defend against an invisible enemy.
Technically interesting but too often indulging in pretentious camera tricks and transitions, which are unlinked with the purpose of both the scene and the film, standing undecided between Cinéma vérité and a hardboiled heist film. Attacking violence with stylised irony and grim realism at the same is a hard one to pull and ‘La Heine’ fails to do so.
Nevertheless, 'La Heine' is an interesting trip, the characters are subjugated to a society that treats them as scum and hopes of them to just disappear, and one cannot help but to empathise with their self-destructive desperation, their anger and their resentment.
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