jacques audiard directorial debut see how they fall aka regarde le hommes tomber be our old friend and the film with two different story that gradually converge and turn out to be the same story after all and simply tell from different side . it a shaggy dog story and with matthieu kassovitz simpleton follow unlucky in card drifter jean louis trintignant with mutt like devotion that even stretch to kill for him when he ask to repay his gamble debt in kind . meanwhile and in a slightly different timeframe and jean yanne over the hill travel salesman becomes increasingly obsess with find the hit man who put his cop friend into a brain dead coma and his life and income and relationship gradually strip away a he get close to his prey . yet while it may offer the perfect setup for a modern day neo noir and the film be often more surprisingly playful and more interested in quirk of character and a slightly skewed sense of humor ( aptly serve by the occasional ironic caption and alexandre desplat half jaunty and half discordant score ) than the traditional thriller set piece and plot mechanic . unfortunately the film be ill serve by one of the bad region 1 dvd release in recent year represent the picture quality on synkronized disc be so poor at time you keep on expect to see the audience head in front of the picture like a pirate disc .