In the shade of the woods
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In the shade of the woods |
| Original title | Cette femme-là |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Guillaume Nicloux |
| script | Guillaume Nicloux |
| production | Frédéric Bourboulon |
| music |
Éric Demarsan Fabio Viscogliosi |
| camera | Pierre-William Glenn |
| cut | Guy Lecorne |
| occupation | |
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In the shadow of the woods (original title: Cette femme-là ) is a French psychological thriller by Guillaume Nicloux from 2003.
action
Michèle Varin works for the homicide squad, but has been a psychological wreck since her son's death. She is in psychiatric treatment, takes medication and spends her free time doing puzzles and with her aging rabbit. Although she no longer thinks about suicide all the time, she sleeps poorly. It's February 21st of a leap year, and Varin suspects that she will feel bad every leap year, as her son died on the night of February 29th. On the evening of February 21st, after her yoga class, Varin is called to find a body. A woman hanged herself in the forest. One of her shoes is missing and cannot be found. The next day brings the interrogation of the jogger who discovered the woman. In addition, Varin and her colleague Sylvain Bazinsky are called to a case of a set fire to a wood factory, where owner Daniel is indignant when he is questioned by Bazinsky about possible arson. Varin and Bazinsky visit two families who live in the forest. Varin interrogates a woman and her son Léo, but they know nothing. Bazinsky reports on his questioning, a young couple in a large house who offered him coffee. Some time later, Bazinsky confesses to Varin that he lost a raincoat she lent him during the investigation.
Another murder occurs on February 23, this time part of a series of murders in which the perpetrators always wear Dalton masks. Varin meets Daniel again, who apologizes for appearing at the interrogation. They both go out and end up sleeping together, but Varin breaks up with him the next day when he asks her questions that are too personal. The next day, the hanged woman's body is also examined. It shows some healed bone fractures, but also numerous, sometimes very fresh welts on the back. On February 25, the body was identified: it was Madame Atken, who suffered from depression and was housed in the open ward of a psychiatric ward. In the evening a masked man breaks into Varin's house and escapes. She wants to confront him, but he hits her so hard that she collapses with difficulty breathing. The following time she has to wear a ruff. In nightmares she sees the man in her apartment and feels the urge to shoot herself.
On February 26th, Varin interviewed private detective François Manéri, whom Madame Atken visited some time before her death. She wanted to find her daughter Claire again, whom she had once given up for adoption. Manéri found out where Claire was now living. In the evening, Varin goes to the police's annual celebration and is disappointed that Bazinsky is missing. On the way home she runs out of gas in the middle of the forest and dreams that she is walking around in the forest and suddenly the man in the cowl appears who broke into her house; she cannot escape it in the dream. In the morning their car is towed away; she herself seeks out Yvan Thiel, with whom Claire Atkin is now said to live. However, she moved out some time ago. Varin learns that Bazinsky is dead. He was shot in his car. In the car, Varin finds the raincoat he had lost. In a nightmare, Varin believes he is together with Daniel, who turns out to be a man in the robe.
On February 28, Varin is visited by Bazinsky's lover. Both hid their relationship from the public. The friend had spoken to Bazinsky the day he died. Bazinsky had told him that he knew where he lost his raincoat. The friend agrees with Varin that Bazinsky is not a suicide. On February 29th, Varin went to Léo and questioned him again. She believes that she saw him in the woods and also that he may have the corpse's missing shoe with him. Léo tells her that he saw and spoke to Bazinsky two days ago. He showed him his revolver and told him that he wanted to go to the neighbors because he had forgotten something there. Varin goes to the house next door, where she finds numerous Daltons masks on a table. She is overwhelmed by the gang - two men and one woman. Tied up, she dreams that she will be buried alive by the gang. She can identify the woman as Claire Atken. When she goes to take control of Léo and his mother, Varin frees himself and overpowers one of the men. The other confronts Varin, who is saved by Léo, who followed her to the house with a revolver. Both flee and can alert the police in a neighboring town. Varin spends the next few days in the hospital. In a dream she thinks she sees Atken's shoe. On April 2nd she will be with the psychiatrist again. He believes she is largely cured, especially since her nightmares have stopped. The credits state that Madame Atken's death could never be solved.
production
In the shadow of the woods is the second part of a trilogy by Guillaume Nicloux in which the character of François Manéri appears. Part 1 is the 2002 film A very private affair , in part 3, La clef (2007), the character of Michèle Varin is represented again. In the Shadow of the Forests came to French cinemas on October 15, 2003 and was seen by 129,753 viewers. On October 1, 2007, the film ran for the first time on German television on ZDF.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Michèle Varin | Josiane Balasko | Regina Lemnitz |
| Sylvain Bazinsky | Eric Caravaca | Peter Flechtner |
| Daniel | Frédéric Pierrot | Peter Reinhardt |
| François Manéri | Thierry Lhermitte | Oliver Siebeck |
| Léo Kopmans | Ange Rodot | Yoshij Grimm |
| Identification man | Aurélien Recoing | Jan Spitzer |
criticism
The film-dienst called Im Schatten der Wälder an "atmospherically photographed thriller about a psychologically unstable protagonist who has to overcome her own demons". For Cinema the film was a “relentless journey into a horror world” and at the same time as nihilistic as Scandinavian crime novels.
Awards
Josiane Balasko received a César nomination in the category Best Actress in 2004 .
Web links
- In the shadow of the forests in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See allocine.fr
- ↑ In the shade of the woods. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ In the shade of the woods. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de