The Chamber of the Dead Children
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Chamber of the Dead Children |
| Original title | La Chambre des morts |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Lot |
| script | Alfred Lot |
| production | Charles Gassot |
| music | Nathaniel Mechaly |
| camera | Jérôme Alméras |
| cut | Maryline Monthieux |
| occupation | |
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Room of Death is a French thriller from the year 2007 . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Franck Thilliez . The film also aired on television as The Chamber of the Dead .
action
The two friends Sylvain and Vigo have lost their jobs. In order to get revenge on their former boss, they smear their old workplace with graffiti at night. As they drive home, Vigo runs over a passerby who is dead on the spot. An examination of the body reveals that the man had two million euros in cash with him. While Vigo immediately sees an opportunity to resolve his financial problems, Sylvain feels guilty. Vigo prevails after an argument, and they both take the money after dumping the body in a pond.
The next morning, the police officer Lucie Hennebelle and her partner Pierre Norman are assigned to the Dunkirk criminal investigation department on the case of a bizarre girl's body. The viewer learns that the man who was run over was a cosmetic surgeon whose daughter was kidnapped. He was supposed to hand over the ransom the night before, but the kidnapper had to watch as his money and the body disappeared thanks to Sylvain and Vigo. Thereupon he killed the young girl and approximated her appearance through clothing and facial expression to the look of the famous "Annabelle" doll from the 1980s. Wolfskin and some tree bark were found on the girl's body. The presentation also reminds Lucie of the Annabelle dolls, not least because she owns such a doll herself. After the wolf skin has been analyzed, Lucie travels to Lille Zoo . She learns from the zookeeper Van Boost that not all of his wolves and monkeys have been stolen, some of them have also been massacred and gutted. They were with Tiletamin stunned the aortas were tied to them, and the pelvic arteries cut open, which only the work of a taxidermist may have been. When Van Boost visits an underground BDSM club, he discovers some of his stuffed animals and notifies the police. Through the club owner they finally come to a former vet who has gone into hiding. Lucie finds no direct evidence, but evidence suggests that the murderer does not work alone, but has at least one accomplice. And there are two women, Alex and Annabelle, who have known each other since childhood and have gone through difficult times together. While the former vet Alex is only after the money, Annabelle prepares her kidnapped girls. Her latest victim is little Eleanor, a diabetic who can only live 40 hours without medication.
In the meantime Sylvain has been notified by the police that they want to question him about the graffiti on the factory premises. He visits Vigo and tells of his feelings of guilt, which he can no longer bear. He wants the lies to end and so he wants to face the police. Only Vigo doesn't want, which is why he drugged him and took him to his girlfriend Valet and their baby. There he numbs her too, puts them both in bed and causes a gas leak. After a while, Alex appears who wants her two million. She tries to wake up Valet and Sylvain, only Sylvain wakes up and is shocked to find that both his beloved Valet and her baby are dead. So that Sylvain takes revenge and Alex gets her money, they both drive to Vigo. You can catch him before you leave and a fight ensues in which Sylvain takes Alex's gun. At first he cannot shoot Vigo, but then sets him on fire along with the money. Alex can only save herself by confessing that she is still holding Eleonore prisoner and only Sylvain can save her. To do this, she leads him to her property in the basement, where she and Annabelle can overcome and imprison him from an ambush. From prison, however, Sylvain manages to call the police before suffocating himself.
Meanwhile, Lucie is on the trail of a clue. Since the taxidermist needed a lot of animals to work, she went to an animal shelter and found Monique de Castei, a woman who adopted an unusually large number of animals with 30 dogs and cats. She drives to the address in Vatten and searches the cellar armed. She finds the dead Alex, who was killed by Annabelle after an argument, and discovers Eleonore in one of the rooms. Only she can no longer prevent Annabelle's suicide. After Moreno arrives with the reinforcements, Eleonore can also receive medical care and survives.
background
The interview that the Internet magazine Skynet Jack conducted with Alfred Lot in 2010 can be an approach for the interpretation . In this interview Lot says that he wants to show to what extent the bourgeois nuclear family, which is shaped by clichés and banality, is being eaten away and transcended. (...) transcender (...) corrosive "(ibid.) It is uncontrolled emotions, the instinctuality (the animal in humans), which devour the family (Annabelle's childhood, the father is violent, the mother commits suicide, Annabelle becomes a" broken "figure, who actually only longs for love (" If you had stayed with me, none of that would have happened "). Here the animal symbolism becomes clear, because these instinctual actions show the animal in humans, so it is also understandable why the animals themselves appear destroyed in this film (stuffed, skinned ...), this underlines the destructive character of the unreflected, unresolved and unresolved instinctively determined actors (Vigo, Annabelle).
publication
The film opened in French cinemas on November 14, 2007. In Germany it was released directly on DVD on October 9, 2008 .
Awards
Alfred Lot was awarded a Prix Lumières for best screenplay in 2008 for the adaptation of the novel .
Reviews
"Quite an exciting thriller that sometimes follows in the footsteps of American role models ( The Silence of the Lambs ), but thanks to its solid staging it has enough independence."
“This exciting and complex horror fair is the feature film debut of director and screenwriter Alfred Lot [...]. Always well cast and played - especially Mélanie Laurent and Eric Caracava [...] convince as an investigative duo. "
"One of the most intense serial killer thrillers of recent times."
Web links
- Room of Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Chamber of the Dead Children in the online film database
- The Chamber of the Dead Children in the German dubbing file
- Skynet Jack Interview 2010
- The Chamber of the Dead at ORF from January 26, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Skynet Jack
- ↑ The Chamber of the Dead Children. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Chamber of the Dead Children on prisma.de (accessed on October 15, 2015)
- ↑ The Chamber of Dead Children on cinema.de (accessed on March 31, 2016)