Andrew Pulver
The
indefatigable Robert Guédiguian returns to the highminded thriller
style that proved successful with his 2009 picture The Army of Crime,
which unveiled local complicity in the betrayal of a wartime resistance
cell in German occupied Marseilles. This new film, for which the
original French title is a slightly more snappy Une Histoire de Fou (A
Story of Madness), jumps forwards three decades, to Marseilles in the
1970s, and takes as its subject the wave of bombings and assassinations
perpetrated by Armenian radicals against Turkish interests, in response
to the genocidal killings of Armenians during and after the first world
war.
