Mar. 05, 2021|France|80 Min.|PG
Genre: Action;Drama;Thriller
Description: Klara (Olga Kurylenko) is a translator serving with a French Army unit in Syria as part of Operation Chammal. After a failed interrogation leads to casualties within her team, a traumatized Klara is sent back to Nice, France, where she joins Sentinelle, a domestic anti-terrorism initiative. Tasked with patrolling the city, Klara and her team primarily assist tourists, a far cry from the intensity of her previous missions. Haunted by flashbacks of the events in Syria, she struggles to cope, relying on a cocktail of opioids, beta blockers, and sedatives prescribed by army doctors. When her medication runs out, Klara turns to street dealers to feed her growing addiction, all while trying to maintain a semblance of normalcy with her mother and sister, Tania (Marilyn Lima).
One evening, while out at a club, Tania meets a group of Russian diplomats and leaves with them. The next morning, she is found brutally assaulted on the beach. Devastated and enraged, Klara’s fragile emotional state crumbles. With the police unable to act due to diplomatic immunity, Klara takes matters into her own hands. She begins surveilling the Russians’ compound and confronts the man she believes is responsible, using her military training to overpower him and his associates. However, the Russians remain untouchable, leaving Klara feeling helpless as her sister lies traumatized in the hospital, too afraid to press charges. Consumed by addiction and fury, Klara resolves to seek justice the only way she knows how—by taking up arms and delivering her own form of retribution. As the saying goes in the army: lock and load.
Cast director: Julien Leclercq
Cast actor: Olga Kurylenko, Marilyn Lima, Michel Nabokoff, Martin Swabey, Carole Weyers, Andrey Gorlenko, Antonia Malinova, Gabriel Almaer, Blaise Afonso, Guillaume Duhesme
Original name: Sentinelle