Actor/director Louis Garrel’s heist film The Innocent (L’ Innocent), is flat out entertaining. It hits all of the familiar beats of a romantic dark comedy, but its the witty, sarcastic dialogue that carries the entire establishing arc all the way to the end.
Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg) is a drama teacher in a prison and she falls in love with one of her students, Michel (Roschdy Zem) who is locked up for participating in a heist.
The two get married at the prison where her son Abel (Louis Garrel) is in attendance. Abel is not a smart man but an honest one and he wants to protect is mother.
He is noticeably uncomfortable because his mother is marrying an ex-con, but he grins and bears it. He has a right to be upset as he constantly wonders if Michel is still a criminal?
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