The Informant (2013 film)

The Informant (French: Gibraltar, also known as Border Informant) is a 2013 French crime thriller film written and directed by Julien Leclercq.[3][4]

The Informant
Film poster
FrenchGibraltar
Directed byJulien Leclercq
Screenplay byAbdel Raouf Dafri
Based onL'Aviseur
by Marc Fievet
Produced byDimitri Rassam
Peter Berg
StarringGilles Lellouche
Tahar Rahim
Riccardo Scamarcio
Elizabeth Rohm
Peter Berg
CinematographyThierry Pouget
Mika Cotellon
Edited byMickael Dumontier
Arthur Tarnowski
Music byClinton Shorter
Distributed bySND Films (France)
Release dates
  • 24 August 2013 (2013-08-24) (Angoulême)
  • 11 September 2013 (2013-09-11) (France)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesFrance
Canada
LanguageFrench
Budget$22.8 million [1]
Box office$2.3 million [2]

Plot

Marc Duval is a bar owner in Gibraltar. He is cornered by his creditors, so he agrees to become a paid informant for the French customs to report drug trafficking. He quickly finds himself drawn into events more and more dangerous and ends up being prosecuted as number two in a major drugs operation.

Cast

Locations

The action takes place mostly in the area around La Línea, Gibraltar and Algeciras in Andalucía, Southern Spain, and in the Strait that separates the Spanish mainland from Morocco. Marc's bar is opposite the entrance to the marketplace in La Línea, the frontier town with Gibraltar. Other scenes feature Algeciras port and the Gibraltar border and airport. It is the mid-1980s, after the Spanish transition to democracy and before the sophistication of the drugs trade across the Strait became more complex.

Reception

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 25%, based on eight reviews, with an average score of 4.75/10.[5]

References
  1. "Gibraltar". JP's Box-Office.
  2. "The Informant (2013)". Box Office Mojo.
  3. Jordan Mintzer (September 11, 2013). "The Informant (Gibraltar): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  4. Geoffrey Macnab (April 24, 2014). "The Informant, film review: Brooding thriller with flavour of The French Connection 2". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  5. "The Informant (Gibraltar) (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 24, 2020.


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