Papillon (DVD)

In the 1930s, Parisian safecracker Henri Charrière (Charlie Hunnam) was framed on a murder rap and bound over to a brutal penal colony in French Guiana. The years he would spend concocting multiple plans for escape, and the symbiotic bond for survival inside he built with unprepossessing counterfeiter Louis Dega (Rami Malek), are grippingly recounted in this second screen take on Charrière's 1969 memoir; Tommy Flanagan, Eve Hewson, Roland Møller, Michael Socha also star. 137 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.

Starring: Charlie Hunnam, "The Cats" - John Coltrane / Tommy Flanagan / Idrees Sulieman / Kenny Burrell

Rating: R