A television series follows the dangerous and well-known gangs of diamonds in Europe and the efforts of a police detective, Khalil, who does his best to track them down.
The Last Panthers offers the usual obstacles for the cops and the robbers, but these moments bring a fresh flavor to the crime drama: intractable corporate bureaucracy with a smile.
The Last Panthers is dense and can be hard to follow, jumping around not just in location but in time, introducing more and more characters and complications as it goes. But it pays off.
From the performances to the direction to the editing, The Last Panthers ends up making the familiar feel fresh, allowing the equally thrilling and melancholic subject matter to unfurl with surprising effectiveness.
Created by playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne, directed throughout by Johan Renck and beautifully acted in a variety of tongues, it is based loosely on the nonfictional Pink Panthers.
The Pink Panthers are indeed real but this TV mini-series is fiction, a sprawling story that opens on a jewel heist in the French port city of Marseilles...
It takes all of zero seconds for SundanceTV's newest foreign import The Last Panthers to grab you by the sides of your head and demand your full attention.
