The Nest

Infobox Film
name = The Nest


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caption = Promotional poster for "The Nest"
director = Florent Emilio Siri
producer =
writer = Florent Emilio Siri
Jean-François Tarnowski
narrator =
starring = Samy Naceri
Benoît Magimel
music = Alexandre Desplat
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =
released = flagicon|France March 6, 2002
runtime = 107 min.
country = France
language = French
English
German
Italian
budget =
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website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0280990

"The Nest" (2002), also known as "Nid de guêpes", is a French action/thriller movie, directed by Florent Emilio Siri. The literal translation of the French title is "Wasp's nest".

Plot summary

It's July 14, and people are enjoying the national holiday. A group prepare what is later shown to be a warehouse robbery. Meanwhile, Laborie, a special agent in the French special forces, and an international team are escorting the leader of the Albanian mafia, Abedin Nexhep. He is due to appear in a European court, charged with running an extensive prostitution network. Despite a considerable security presence, Nexhep's henchmen still try to intercept the armed escort. They set up an ambush, but the escort manages to escape.

After a chase, the armed escort take refuge in a warehouse inside a massive industrial park. Upon arriving, they discover that the building is in the process of being robbed, by a group of people after some computer equipment. While facing off against the would-be thieves, Nexhep's men surround the warehouse.

The three groups are then involved in a long firefight, and everyone involved struggles to survive. Who exactly lives or dies is unclear right until the very end of the film.

"Nid des Guêpes" combines a director's love of the Western, especially the old films such as the original "Fort Apache", with modern European fears about transnational crime and the modern cinema trope of the girl hero or female action hero.

Reductionist approaches to cinema are nothing new in French cinema and neither is an element of the surreal.

With the use of a technique where despite the action film violence and effects we see less of the villains an almost science fiction approach similar to that of such films as the original "Alien" movie builds suspense.

The cinematography of the movie was highly influential in subsequent American cinema releases especially the most recent remake of "Assault on Precinct 13". The film closely follows John Carpenter's original "Assault on Precinct 13" even down to a similar last stand and a variant of the infamous "ice cream cone" scene.

Cast

*Samy Naceri as Nasser
*Benoît Magimel as Santino
*Nadia Farès as Laborie
*Pascal Greggory as Louis
*Sami Bouajila as Selim
*Anisia Uzeyman as Nadia
*Richard Sammel as Winfried
*Valerio Mastandrea as Giovanni
*Martial Odone as Martial
*Martin Amic as Spitz
*Alexandre Hamidi as Tony
*Angelo Infanti as Abedin Nexhep

External links

*imdb title|id=0280990|title=The Nest