Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Jean Yanne stars as Simon Hirsch a bored middle-aged salesman who accompanies his best friend cop Mickey (Yvon Back) on a stakeout for the sake of excitement When Mickey is shot & put into a coma Simon quits his dead-end job & leaves his family in order to track down the would-be killers In a parallel story that takes place a few years earlier a thug & gambler named Marx (Jean-Louis Trintignant) teaches a simple-minded youth named Johnny (Mathieu Kassovitz) the finer points of thug life including shakedowns & professional hits The paths of Marx & Johnny don&t cross with that of Simon until the film&s surprising climax This ingenious French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard (A Prophet The Beat that My Heart Skipped) & won three Cesars