La Confiance règne
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| Original title | La Confiance règne |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 98 minutes |
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| Director | Étienne Chatiliez |
| script | Étienne Chatiliez, Laurent Chouchan |
| production | Charles Gassot |
| music | Matthew Herbert |
| camera | Philippe world |
| cut | Catherine Renault |
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La Confiance règne is a French comedy film by Étienne Chatiliez from 2004 in which two domestic workers, played by Cécile de France and Vincent Lindon , move from place to place, shamelessly enriching themselves with the belongings of their wealthy employers.
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A middle-aged woman leaves her husband and their three children. Her housemaid Chrystèle also ran away shortly afterwards - with a painting that the family owned. At the train station, Chrystèle runs into Christophe, who - also as a household worker - was caught stealing by his landlord. After a shepherd's hour together in a hotel, they both discover that they have stolen each other's cash. When scouring job advertisements looking only for house servants as a couple, they decide to team up and take a job as a couple with a wealthy couple in Alsace . While her new landlord, Philippe Térion, is calm about the question of her righteousness, his wife Françoise is skeptical. She mistrusts Chrystèle in particular - Christophe may be simple-minded, but at least very nice.
When Françoise drives into town with Christophe and Chrystèle on the way to the hairdresser, she forgets her handbag in the car. Before Christophe dutifully carries the bag after her, he and Chrystèle use Françoise's credit card to withdraw a large sum of money from an ATM. Chrystèle uses her share to buy new clothes and a dressing gown as a present for Françoise, who is celebrating her birthday. Chrystèle meets an older man with whom she goes to bed without further ado, as she later openly reports to Christophe. Françoise, who rightly suspects Chrystèle of stealing a bracelet from her, appears soothed and extremely pleased when Chrystèle presents her with her present that evening. One of the guests at their birthday party, from whom Christophe and Chrystèle stole money and jewelry from their coat pockets, is Françoise's brother-in-law Jacques, who is the man Chrystèle had slept with a few hours earlier. By pretending to have become pregnant by him, Chrystèle succeeds in blackmailing Jacques.
Chrystèle then ran away - together with Christophe, who took away a pair of red shoes that Philippe Térion had kept in a showcase. It says on the sole of a shoe that they would bring no luck to the owner. The superstitious Christophe is shocked by this, but still cannot part with his shoes. At their next employer, a Jewish family, the crook couple lets go of all presents during a bar mitzvah . Then they are housed as house servants in a castle. When the couple who own the castle surprisingly lay Chrystèle and Christophe on the cross and threw them out without paying them for their work, they decide to go to Chrystèle's brother Ludo.
Ludo, who, as an employee in the town hall of Fontenay-sous-Bois, has repeatedly found offices with falsified references for his sister Chrystèle, but no longer wants to be involved in their fraud, welcomes both of them benevolently, hoping to keep an eye out To be able to have Chrystèle and to get her to finally lead a regular life. He also tries in vain to get her to visit their parents and younger siblings, who live as a social case in a shabby house and in social isolation, or at least to contact their foster mother Mounie on Mother's Day. When Chrystèle returns from a one-night stand again and Christophe is annoyed as usual, Chrystèle no longer wants to work with him. While Christophe takes a job as a restaurant waiter, Chrystèle takes up her job with a middle-class family. Shortly afterwards, Perrine Beverel, her new employer, catches her stealing. However, she shows indulgence and lets Chrystèle continue to work for her.
After a vacation in the luxury hotel "Le Normandy Barrière" in Deauville , where Chrystèle looks after the Beverels' children, she begins to miss Christophe. Without further ado, she decides to return to Christophe, who now works in a hotel in Normandy . When a trawler loses its cargo off the coast, Christophe and Chrystèle come across a cargo of cocaine on the beach. Suddenly they are swimming in money. As the nouveau riche who pretend to have won the lottery, they shop in the most expensive boutiques in Paris , drive around in expensive sports cars and stay in a luxury hotel. After Chrystèle, who always found her breasts too small, had them enlarged, they go on vacation to Deauville. There they meet Perrine and her family at “Le Normandy Barrière”. Perrine and her husband advise the two of them to invest their money and not just toss it out the window. They should also invest in their own apartment.
When Chrystèle gives Christophe several pairs of red shoes so that he can finally dispose of the old pair that supposedly brings bad luck, Christophe decides to bring them back to Philippe Térion instead - with fatal consequences. While Chrystèle gets involved in a hotel with a playboy who demands money for his services after making love, her housekeeper Nadège, who is fed up with her employers, packs her things and leaves her luxury apartment devastated. Because Chrystèle and Christophe lived beyond their means, the banker, who has taken care of their finances, furiously demands their credit cards back. Their cars and their home are then seized. In a pawn shop where Chrystèle is trying to sell her stolen painting for money, she meets its actual owner and runs away with Christophe. Suddenly penniless again, they move in again with Ludo. Chrystèle, who has repeatedly suffered from headaches since her breast surgery, is admitted to hospital shortly afterwards with chills. It turns out that she has meningitis . When she dies, Christophe is inconsolable. At her funeral, at which her parents and siblings, her foster mother Mounie and also Perrine and her family are present, a man asks who the bill for the funeral should go to. Christophe has meanwhile left and takes the next train.
background
The shooting took place mainly in Alsace, where the train stations in Colmar and Erstein , the Place de la Réunion, the Rue de la Sinn and the main train station in Mulhouse , the communities of Rouffach and Wittenheim and Osthausen Castle in Osthouse were used as locations. Further recordings were made in Yport , in the luxury hotel "Le Normandy Barrière" and in front of the casino in Deauville, in Rosny-sous-Bois as well as on the Place du Trocadéro and in the luxury hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris. Stéphane Makedonsky designed the production . Elisabeth Tavernier appeared as a costume designer . The budget of the film was around 12.75 million euros.
The film was released in French and Belgian cinemas on November 10, 2004. In France he was then seen by around 496,000 spectators.
Reviews
Le Monde described the two “heroes” of the film as “freeloaders without scruples, education or political and social conscience”, who are also incapable of any feelings towards others. Even if the film is always lacking in taste (keyword: stinking feet and faecal humor), it is definitely "pleasant", at least for those who could still do something with the esprit of the satirical magazine Hara-Kiri . With Cécile de France, the film is mainly carried by an “amazing” leading actress, “who hasreached new heightsin her role as a vulgar Bécassine ”.
According to L'Express , the film about householdersrobbingthe bourgeoisie could in no way tie in with the successes of Étienne Chatiliez's other comedies such as Life is a Long, Calm River (1987) and Tanguy (2001). The film "goes in circles" and is "forced to repeat itself". The portrayal of lead actor Vincent Lindon in the role of a stupid deceiver, "which goes far beyond the ridiculous", is also to be criticized. Only the “wonderful” Cécile de France emerged from this cinematic “failure” without blame.
Liberation found that the first half hour of the film had the typical Chatiliez style and its promising ingredients, and that it was almost a self-parody. After that, flatten the story. For lack of ideas, the figures are "nothing more than bland sketches that have been sacrificed on the altar of a lengthy story". Their “provocative humor” is exhausted in the end in “a farce about nouveau riche”. The “clumsy emotional bliss” that emerges at the end of the film cannot hide the weakness of the script. Cécile de France expended "a considerable amount of energy" in her game "to appear credible as an indecent, easy girl". Vincent Lindon, on the other hand, loses himself "in the role of a brave idiot that was obviously not intended for him".
Web links
- La Confiance règne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La Confiance règne on allocine.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. jpbox-office.com
- ↑ “Les 'héros' de La confiance règne sont deux parasites, sans scrupules, éducation ni conscience politique et sociale […]. [I] l se révèle assez réjouissant pour peu qu'on ait gardé un rien d'esprit Hara Kiri […]. Il est surtout porté par une comédienne époustouflante, Cécile de France, qui atteint des sommets en composant son rôle de Bécassine triviale. " Jean-Luc Douin: “La confiance règne”: l'union réjouissante de deux domestiques au grand dam de la bourgeoisie . In: Le Monde , November 9, 2004.
- ↑ "Si le démarrage est pétaradant, la suite tourne en rond à force de se répéter. Autre faute de goût: l'interprétation de Vincent Lindon, en escroc benêt, qui va bien au-delà du ridicule. Remnants of Cécile de France, merveilleuse rescapée de cette erhur de parcours. ” Eric Libiot: La confiance règne . In: L'Express , November 8, 2004.
- ↑ “Faute d'idée régénératrice, ses personnages ne sont que d'insipides esquisses, sacrifiées sur l'autel d'un récit filandreux où l'humour provocateur pas plus que la pantalonnade 'nouveau riche' ou le sentimentalisme poussif […]. Cécile de France déploie une energy considérable pour sembler crédible en fille truculente et facile; alors que Vincent Lindon, lui, se fourvoie dans la peau d'un personnage de brave couillon qui ne lui était à l'évidence pas destiné. ” Gilles Renault: Chatiliez grippé . In: Liberation , November 10, 2004.