Allo police

is the third part of a trilogy the first two films of which were shown at the festival of Nyon. Du beurre surles Tartines shows the inside of a company, Malaise is an analysis of the mix-up of political and cultural interests in a city.
In Manu Bonmariage presses yet further into a bit of reality when he demonstrates the miserable conditions of life people without a chance can come to. He succeeds in doing this by following, for some months, the daily work of policemen in Charleroi, Belgium, formerly a prosperous industrial town. Faced with charges, riots, rape, frights, fear and death the officers can often only try and settle matters between parties as best they can. is not a film about police-work, yet it proves that policemen are not prepared to carry out the tasks assigned to them in practice: those of psycho the rapist, social worker, judge….
Bonmariage addresses his style of filming as a 'cinema de la pauvreté'. By means of a sober technique and free from any aesthetic artificiality, a report is made of a reality the emotional tension has sufficient symbolic value to speak for itself.