FFF REVIEW: HEAT WAVE (COUP DE CHAUD)
4/5 On a rainy night a young man is running through the streets of a small town. He is seriously wounded and loosing a lot of blood. As he collapses on the ground, a few meters away from home we rewind back to see what had happened and why. Who is to blame? A man? Or a heat wave, that threw everyone in this small provincial own to the edge of their sanity? HEAT WAVE is a story of a small town, what makes it tick, and what can destroy it. We are introduced to a handful of characters, simple country folk, each and one of them a hostage of their town, their land, and each other. At the center of the story is a young man Josheph Bousou, whose inadequate behavior slowly but steadily turns everyone against him and it is only a matter of time when one of the villagers will strike to eliminate the problem. HEAT WAVE is a drama and a mystery. Although the investigation part takes only one fourth of the film, we do wonder about the characters long before the eponymous crime