Papillon
U/A: Thriller/Drama
Director: Michael Noer
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Tommy Flanagan
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Danish filmmaker Michael Noer's retelling of Henri Charriere's escapades doesn't work up as much interest as Franklin J Schaffner's 1973 classic did. The film tells the true story of Charriere (Charlie Hunnam) and his fellow prisoner Louis Dega (Rami Malek) as they plan an escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. The experience of life and death, inclusive of extreme violence, in the colony of the '30s — where escape was considered a folly pursued by those who have a death wish — is definitely a better read than a cinema.