La trilogie II: Cavale

Cavale forms a film trilogy with Un couple épatant and Après la vie: three different stories in three different styles, but made largely with the same cast: a protagonist in one film plays a bit part in another. The stories are also set in the same time frame and the same location, in the French city of Grenoble. The stories of the films cross each other, but are not intertwined. So it is no problem to see each film from the trilogy separately from the others, but the combination of the three films brings so many new insights and discoveries that it provides, as it were, an entirely new film that only exists in the mind of the viewer.
The thriller Cavale is the first part of the trilogy. Director Belvaux (who previously acted in films by Rivet and Chabrol) himself plays the lead in this exciting film noir. Bruno, a terrorist, escapes from jail after fifteen years. He still has a score to settle with the person who betrayed him and sets to work straight away. He also wants to realise his political ideals with violence, just as he had done in the seventies with his comrades in the ‘armée populaire’. But times have changed: some of his former comrades are dead or in jail, others have given up the struggle. Bruno has to face the world alone.