
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit: taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets, and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues, and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and living with it. How do these cops balance their private liv... (Full plot summary below)
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The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit: taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets, and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues, and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and living with it. How do these cops balance their private lives and the reality they confront every working day? Fred, the group's hypersensitive wild card, will have difficulty facing the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer on a Ministry of the Interior assignment to document the unit.
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| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThe entire movie is pitched at a scream. But the screaming is more Janis Joplin, Axl Rose, or Mary J. Blige than Jamie Lee Curtis. All the tears I shed were hard-earned. So were all the laughing and clapping and eye-covering. In each case, it was involuntary. |
| QuickflixSimon MiraudoPolisse is a fantastically compelling and complex portrait of the men and women who devote their days to the safety of children, and who must come to accept that the cycle of abuse and hardship rarely ends at their intervention. |
| CraveOnlineFred TopelI'm all for saving children but I find movies like Polisse exploiting the subject for cheap drama. When an artist can make you forget you're watching an 'important' movie then that's when art can elevate real life tragedy. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...a tough and mostly rewarding ride, sort of like a full season of a novelistic cable drama like The Wire compressed into a two-hour serving ... |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA fast-paced, original police drama with snappy dialogue is marred only by subtitles often difficult to read. |
| CinemalogueTodd JorgensonIts gritty ambition makes it hard to dismiss. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyThe mosaic of cases and caseworkers is like a season of "The Wire" distilled into two hours. |
| DCistPat Padua[Maiwenn] ets such good performances out of a huge cast that one can forgive the navel-gazing, and in a movie about a police force with management issues, she is clearly an effective manager. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanA cohesive energy and dramatic weight draws us ever tighter to its gut wrenching centre |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenInspired by a documentary, the film is shot with vérité immediacy and beautifully acted by an outstanding ensemble. If not every piece of the puzzle delivers its intended impact, the movie as a whole gets under your skin, and the central characters resonate long after the screen goes dark. |