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Philippe Tardieu works as a salesman, lives with his mother, Christine, and two sisters Sophie and Patricia, in the suburbs of Nantes. Christine does hairdressing at home to earn some spare change. Sophie, the eldest sister, is getting married to Jacky. As for Patricia, the youngest sister, she tries as best she can to escape she's not sure what.
At the wedding Philippe falls in love with Senta, one of the bridesmaids. It is love at first sight and, soon, Philippe spends all his nights with Senta, neglecting his mother and his younger sister. Senta's love is very exclusive and demanding. One day, she tells Philippe that, if he really loves her, he should kill a man, any man, for her. The next day, in order to please Senta and as a joke, Philippe says to her that he's responsible for the murder of a down-and-out. Senta believes him and says that she will do the same for him. When the corpse of another man is found, a panicking Philippe starts to wonder...
Again adapting a novel by Ruth Rendell (whose A Judgment In Stone became La Ceremonie) Chabrol is at the peak of his craft, Senta is played by Laura Smet, the daughter of Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday. Philippe is played by Benoit Magimel and arguably one of the finest French actors of his generation.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I had heard this Ruth Rendell story dramatised on radio and was absolutely bowled over, so I was really pleased when I saw the DVD was being released. And I wasn't disappointed. Chabrol seems to have a special feeling for the books of Ruth Rendell (he has previous adaptations of her work) and the two main actors make the story nightmarish and yet believable.
Incidentally, I had no problems at all with the DVD I was sent.
Incidentally, I had no problems at all with the DVD I was sent.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an enjoyable film to watch because the acting and dialogue are good and the story is based on a Ruth Rendell book.Nice cinematography also helped.The bonus section of the dvd includes a 10 minute documentary
of the film making process and you'll hear and see a lot of Claude Chabrol the director and of Benoit Magimel and Laura Smet who play the main actors.
of the film making process and you'll hear and see a lot of Claude Chabrol the director and of Benoit Magimel and Laura Smet who play the main actors.
Format:DVD
A good bourgeois household in the suburbs of Nantes,Philippe(Benoit Magimel) is a salesman who lives with his widowed mother,Christine(Clement) and 2 sisters,Sophie and Patricia.He is fearful of violence and over solicitous to his mother.Sophie the eldest sister is getting married to the nerd Jacky.Christine does hairdressing at home to earn some spare change.Patricia is a wild child staying out late,smoking and drinking too much,mixing with the wrong sort.Christine has met a new man Gerard(he doesn't like dogs).A local woman has been murdered(on TV news).
Philippe falls in love with Senta(Laura Smet),one of the bridesmaids at his sister's wedding.Love at first sight.Philippe spends all his nights with the mysterious Senta,in her strange basement of her step-mother's apartment.He neglects his mother and younger sister.Senta's love is exclusive and demanding.She is an actress and model waiting for work and auditions in Paris.Philippe questions her lack of plays among her books. She is a fantasist story-teller(liar and psychopath) and demands they both prove their love for each other,they will have to kill somebody for each other(as well as write a poem,plant a tree,have sex with their own gender).
Philippe thinks this is a joke,but claims he has killed a man(having read it in the paper),the down-and-out,who sleeps inside the exit to her grounds.Senta does likewise,thinking she has killed the man Gerard,who jilted his mother.There are many side characters,like Gerard, Jacky and a stone head statue(Flora) that are all woven into this tale.L'Amour fou brings out the tension and inner conflicts in Philippe.Senta is a basement creature who lives in the shadows with her obsessions reeling Philippe into a dark maelstrom of emotions he finds it hard to get out of or escape from.A dead woman turns up in Senta's house.Rendell translates well into French and Spanish films.Chabrol keeps this pot stewing with many twists and turns as suspense simmers.
Philippe falls in love with Senta(Laura Smet),one of the bridesmaids at his sister's wedding.Love at first sight.Philippe spends all his nights with the mysterious Senta,in her strange basement of her step-mother's apartment.He neglects his mother and younger sister.Senta's love is exclusive and demanding.She is an actress and model waiting for work and auditions in Paris.Philippe questions her lack of plays among her books. She is a fantasist story-teller(liar and psychopath) and demands they both prove their love for each other,they will have to kill somebody for each other(as well as write a poem,plant a tree,have sex with their own gender).
Philippe thinks this is a joke,but claims he has killed a man(having read it in the paper),the down-and-out,who sleeps inside the exit to her grounds.Senta does likewise,thinking she has killed the man Gerard,who jilted his mother.There are many side characters,like Gerard, Jacky and a stone head statue(Flora) that are all woven into this tale.L'Amour fou brings out the tension and inner conflicts in Philippe.Senta is a basement creature who lives in the shadows with her obsessions reeling Philippe into a dark maelstrom of emotions he finds it hard to get out of or escape from.A dead woman turns up in Senta's house.Rendell translates well into French and Spanish films.Chabrol keeps this pot stewing with many twists and turns as suspense simmers.
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a very different kind of Chabrol film
Its a boy meets girl story,based on a Ruth Rendell novel. We follow the main character in his rather humdrum day to day existence, meet each member of his unremarkable family, and... Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2008 by aiya
Masterpiece by Chabrol: shame the DVD was faulty
This is a late masterpiece from one of French cinema's finest auteurs. And a very enjoyable thriller! The only problem was with the DVD. Read more
Published on 14 July 2006 by S. Moore
A great film from the master of suspense!
I was interested to read Mr Moore's review - I agree entirely with his thoughts on the film. On the matter of the faulty disc, I got a great deal from Cinefile - they sent me a new... Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2006 by Joanna Didsbury
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