Manhunt in “Plastic Guns”
The manhunt is at the heart of “Plastic Guns” by Jean-Christophe Meurisse, which unleashes sharp black humor in a satirical tragicomedy. The film features two amateur investigators, their obsession with the Paul Bernardin case, a fictional alter ego of Dupont de Ligonnès, a man who fled after murdering his wife and three children. At the same time, a man is arrested at Copenhagen airport, suspected of being the killer. Meurisse tells both our morbid attraction to crimes and the collective appropriation of a real tragedy to turn it into a game, a quest, an entertainment, against a backdrop of conspiracy theories.
