7 Days (2010)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 7 days |
| Original title | Les 7 jours du talion |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Grou |
| script | Patrick Senécal |
| production | Nicole Robert |
| music |
Reinhold Heil , Johnny Klimek |
| camera | Jeff Cronenweth |
| cut | Valérie Héroux |
| occupation | |
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7 Days (Original title: Les 7 jours du talion ) is a Canadian horror thriller from the director Daniel Grou from 2010 with Claude Legault in the lead role. The script is by Patrick Senécal and is based on the novel Les sept jours du talion .
action
The daughter of the doctor Bruno Hamel is found raped and murdered in a forest. Bruno then kidnaps the main suspect Anthony Lemaire during a prisoner transport. Hamel informed the police by telephone that he would murder Lemaire in seven days, the seventh day also falls on the birthday of his murdered daughter. Only after Lemaire's death would he face the police.
Police Detective Mercure is leading the investigation. Mercure suffered a similar fate when his wife was murdered in a shop robbery.
During the seven days, Lemaire is brutally tortured by Hamel, including smashing his knee, cutting out an intestine while fully conscious, beating him with iron chains and castrating him. Lemaire confesses to Hamel that he raped and murdered three other girls in addition to his daughter Jasmin. Meanwhile, the police are still having trouble tracking down Hamel. Hamel kidnaps the mother of one of his victims, who disapproved of his actions on television by saying that his actions would not bring anything to anyone, and brings her to Lemaire.
The police only manage to locate Hamel on the seventh day. Hamel surrenders and lets Lemaire live. While the police are taking him away, a reporter asks him if revenge is right. Hamel replies in the negative to this question. The reporter now wants to know from Hamel whether he regrets his acts of revenge. Hamel also replies in the negative to the second question. The camera fades out.
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the film as a "vigilante justice film full of sadistic cruelty, which looks terror in the eye with sober images and focuses on pain".
The film magazine Cinema described the production as "the martyrdom of a family filmed in long, haunting shots that resonates for a long time."
Markus Müller in the film portal Moviemaze wrote: “When revenge thriller encounters torture porn, the result is usually far from great cinematic art. Canadian director Daniel Grou proves that the whole thing can be done with a brain. His uncompromisingly depressing and ruthlessly brutal vigilante justice flick proves to be a skillfully sounded out character study that will keep the viewer busy for a long time afterwards and that can actually add something to the revenge thriller genre. "
Web links
- 7 Days in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- 7 Days atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 7 days. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed September 20, 2011 .
- ↑ AFM '09: Monster Revenge in 'Seven Days'
- ↑ 3 More Sundance Films Set for Immediate VOD Debut
- ↑ Critique of Cinema
- ^ Markus Müller, Moviemaze.de