L'adversaire
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A perfect life |
| Original title | L'adversaire |
| Country of production |
France Switzerland Spain |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicole Garcia |
| script |
Frédéric Bélier-Garcia Jacques Fieschi Nicole Garcia |
| production | Alain Sarde |
| music | Angelo Badalamenti |
| camera | Jean-Marc Fabre |
| cut | Emmanuelle Castro |
| occupation | |
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A perfect life is a psychodrama by Nicole Garcia from 2002. It was made in a French-Swiss-Spanish co-production.
action
Outwardly, Jean-Marc Faure has been living a perfect life for 15 years: He is married to the beautiful pharmacist Christine and has two children. He is a respected cardiologist and works for the WHO in Geneva and Dijon . In reality, Faures' life is constructed: due to an illness, he never took the exams in the second year of medicine, but continued to attend the seminars like everyone else. Since he was considered one of the brightest of the year, everyone assumed that he had graduated too. Faures college friend Luc does not question his life either. Lazy everyday life, however, consists of leaving the house and then driving around and passing the time. For a long time, he was able to produce money because he persuaded his father-in-law to start an investment business that is said to bring high profits. When he wanted to withdraw 100,000 francs from the money he had invested for a wedding present, Faure put him off several times and even put off a sudden business trip to Oslo in order to gain time. In the end he confesses to him in the house that is currently under renovation that he doesn't have the money. Shortly afterwards, his father-in-law falls to his death as a result of carelessness. Faure receives money during this time by using his parents' account.
Shortly thereafter, Faure and his family move into a new house in the country. In front of his brother-in-law, Faure claims that all the money invested is there and offers to put the deceased father-in-law's financial affairs in his hands. The brother-in-law refuses because he knows nothing about investments. Faure's friend Rémi separates from his wife Marianne and Faure begins a relationship with her and gives her expensive gifts. He admits the affair to Luc, even though he actually wants to tell him about his abandoned studies, and he is outraged. A short time later, Marianne separated from Faure because he was too depressed for her. His situation becomes more and more serious and one day he runs like crazy through the forest, falls and injures himself. He returns to Christine and claims that he rolled over a WHO car several times and has just come out of the hospital. When she doesn't question his story and instead tries to take care of his bleeding wounds, he breaks down crying.
One day Marianne asks him to invest a larger sum of money for him, as he did with his father-in-law's money. He refuses, but she does not give up. Faure uses Marianne's money to buy his family an expensive new car. When Marianne wants the money paid out, he puts her off until January. Faure's marriage soon begins to run into turmoil: the headmaster has started an affair with a teacher at the children's school. Because in the parents' eyes he runs the school badly, the parents vote on his dismissal. Faure also votes for the dismissal, but claims to Christine that she was the only one to have stood up for him. Christine then starts a petition for the director and only later learns from Luc that her husband was in favor of the dismissal. She realizes that he lied to her. In addition, the wife of a WHO employee appears and says that Faure is not in the WHO personal computer. Christmas passes in an icy mood between the depressed Faure and his wife. In turn, his parents tell him that, according to the bank, their account is in the red. Faure promises to take care of the "bug". He buys ammunition and a silencer.
Christine finally confronts him with her fears. She thinks he lost his job and accuses him of lying to her. Faure says that sometimes she doesn't know what he's saying, but otherwise evades her. When she sleeps, he kills her. The next morning he shoots his two children and then goes to see his parents, whom he also kills. In the evening he picks up Marianne, with whom he is allegedly invited to the celebration of a medicine professor. After several procedures, they keep on the open route. Faure tries to strangle her, but lets go of her when she asks him for their children's sake for their lives. He accuses her of being to blame for everything. Faure returns to his house, where he finally sets a fire. He was rescued from the burning house, seriously injured, and the bodies of his wife and two children were taken away.
Statements from the interrogation of Luc and Marianne are interposed in the plot. Neither of them noticed any significant change in Faure and never questioned his vita. Luc admits that maybe he was just a bad listener.
production
L'adversaire is based on Emmanuel Carrère 's novel of the same name, which was published in Germany under the title Amok . This is based on the true story of Jean-Claude Romand , who killed his wife, two children and parents in 1993. The subject had already been filmed loosely in 2001 with the drama Auszeit .
The shooting took place in France (including Paris and Besançon ) and in Switzerland, including at the WHO headquarters in Geneva and in Les Brenets (House of the Faures). Nathalie du Roscoat created the costumes - Daniel Auteuil was dressed by Lanvin and François Cluzet from Cerruti - while Véronique Barnéoud and Thierry Flamand made the film . The film budget was around 8.36 million euros.
L'adversaire premiered on May 25, 2002 at the Cannes International Film Festival . It opened in French cinemas on August 28, 2002, where it was seen by 1,055,166 visitors. The film was released on DVD in France in May 2003. In Germany, the film was first broadcast on ARTE on June 29, 2016, for which a German synchronization was made.
criticism
Comme au cinema wrote that, despite the template, the scenario has become a modern and timeless tragedy, a tragedy of a misguided normal life that suddenly becomes familiar and disturbing. L'Express praises Daniel Auteuils' game, which shows the result of Faure's choice of a new identity: “The face of Daniel Auteuil, a fabulous actor, is a mere blink of an eye, an absent look, a laugh that only comes from you Muscle reflex results in perfect politeness. "
Awards
L'adversaire ran in 2002 in the competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival. The film was also nominated for a Prix Louis Delluc in 2002.
He received three César nominations in 2003 : Daniel Auteuil was nominated for Best Actor , François Cluzet for Best Supporting Actor and Emmanuelle Devos for Best Supporting Actress .
Web links
- L'adversaire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Trivia about the film on IMDb
- ↑ a b Cf. L'adversaire on allocine.fr
- ^ "Ce scénario se veut une tragédie moderne et atemporelle, tragédie d'une normalité dévoyée, tout à la fois familière et inouïe." Résumé du film L'adversaire , commeaucinema.com, May 2003.
- ↑ "... le visage de Daniel Auteuil, acteur fabuleux, qui n'est que clignements d'yeux, regard plongé ailleurs, sourires dûs au seul réflexe des muscles, courtoisie parfaite". Jean-Pierre Dufreigne: Adversité . lexpress, August 22, 2002.