Synopsis
The Anarchists (Les Anarchistes, 2015) is a French historical thriller you can watch online on iFILM — set in Paris, 1899, directed by Elie Wajeman with Tahar Rahim and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
Sergeant Jean Albertini came up from nothing and earned his rank the hard way. His superior hands him an undercover assignment: get inside an anarchist cell, file reports, collect names. Jean does the job. He is good at it. The problem is the people — the group turns out to be more interesting than the institution he serves, and a woman played by Exarchopoulos says things that are harder to dismiss than they should be. Wajeman never turns the anarchists into heroes; there are bombs, trials, and consequences.
What makes this film work is its refusal to resolve the tension cleanly. Jean does not have a conversion moment. He just runs out of certainty, and Rahim plays that erosion with very little noise. Stream The Anarchists (2015) online on iFILM.
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