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Dominik Moll’s 'Dossier 137' Opens in France With a Sober Look at Police Oversight

Early reviews highlight its procedural realism drawn from the director’s immersion with the IGPN.

Overview

  • The drama follows an IGPN investigator, played by Léa Drucker, examining a defense-ball launcher shot that grievously injured a demonstrator during the Gilets jaunes protests.
  • Critics describe a restrained, multi-perspective approach that points to probable excessive force and shows how evasive testimony hampers efforts to establish the facts.
  • The inquiry is depicted through documentary-like methods, including smartphone and surveillance video analysis, extensive interrogations, and on-the-ground fieldwork.
  • Moll grounded the screenplay in reporting and direct access, reading Mediapart and Le Monde, meeting legal professionals, immersing with the Paris IGPN, observing a command room, and attending a protest.
  • Selected in competition at Cannes, the film reaches French theaters on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, as it revisits the contentious crowd-control decisions of the 2018 movement.