Hell (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The hell |
| Original title | L'Enfer |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| script | Claude Chabrol Henri-Georges Clouzot José-André Lacour |
| production | Marin Karmitz |
| music | Matthieu Chabrol |
| camera | Bernard Zitzermann |
| cut | Monique Fardoulis |
| occupation | |
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Hell is a 1994 film directed by Claude Chabrol . The original screenplay was written by Henri-Georges Clouzot , who had already worked on the subject in 1964 in his unfinished film L'Enfer - with Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani in the leading roles.
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Paul and Nelly are newly married. You own a hotel in the south of France, most of which is financed on credit. Due to stress and all the work, Paul suffers from insomnia, which increases his stress. He also knows that everyone envies his wife. One day he watches Nelly on a rendezvous with the auto mechanic Martineau. When he asks her about it, she interprets his jealousy as a proof of love. When he meets Martineau again, he pursues Nelly and follows them on the shore while the two take a boat to an island.
One evening a guest shows his vacation film in the hotel. It also shows the island on which Nelly was with her boyfriend. Paul is enraged when he thinks he recognizes Nelly making love with Martineau on the video. He demands that the film be stopped immediately and slaps his wife.
She then promises to never see Martineau again. But Paul doesn't rest, his accusations are getting worse and more and more absurd. Murder fantasies and delusions plague him. Eventually he overdoses Nelly on sleeping pills. Then he remarks in astonishment: “What is happening to me? What happened to me? "
The footnote “Sans fin” (“no end”) appears before the credits.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films praised the film that Chabrol reflected "in a formally precisely structured concept [...] with the subtle inclusion of the viewer the futile search for a definitive, meaningful 'proof' of imperceptible changes", but criticizes "the demonic one On the side of the 'disease' jealousy ”is“ only insufficiently explored and sometimes even exposed to ridicule through excessive dramaturgical means. ” Prisma calls the film a“ tired old work in which its virtuoso class only occasionally flares up ”.
Web links
- Hell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hell in the online film database
- Hell at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Review of the film by Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun-Times (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Hell . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2007 (PDF; test number: 71 166 DVD).
- ↑ Hell. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ prisma.de: Hell