The Truth About Charlie

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Movie
German title The Truth About Charlie
Original title The Truth About Charlie
Country of production United States
original language English / French
Publishing year 2002
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jonathan Demme
script Jonathan Demme
Steve Schmidt
Jessica Bendinger
Peter Stone (Original screenplay for Charade / 1964)
production Jonathan Demme
Peter Saraf
Edward Saxon
music Leigh Gorman
Rachel Portman
camera Tak Fujimoto
cut Carol Littleton
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The Truth About Charlie (reference Title: The Truth About Charlie ) is an American / German thriller from the year 2002 .

action

The American Regina Lambert, who lives in Paris, spends her vacation in Martinique . There she makes the decision to separate from Charlie, her husband. Upon returning, she learns that Charlie is dead.

Lambert is molested by friends of her dead husband. The American Joshua Peters helps her, but Lambert discovers that the man could have something to do with Charlie's death. Joshua Peters turns out to be a special investigator for the US government, his real name is different. Charlie was murdered by a man who poses as Lewis Bartholomew and is arrested.

background

The Truth About Charlie is a remake of Stanley Donen's classic Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn . Demme kept the basic constellation of the plot, even took over individual scenes, dialogues and shots almost unchanged. However, it deviated greatly from the original, especially towards the end. He also changed the rather calm narrative style in Charade so that he used handheld cameras and preferred short editing sequences. The Truth About Charlie flopped in the US and never made it to theaters in Germany.

production

The thriller was shot in Martinique and Paris between March 2001 and July 2001.

Reviews

Michael Sragow praised Thandie Newton's game in Baltimore Sun.

Michael Atkinson compared the thriller in The Village Voice to the 1964 thriller Charade , the remake of which was The Truth About Charlie . The new film shows the influence of French cinema.

The lexicon of international film wrote the remake of the comedy thriller Charade take "the unusual cinematic form in itself" and reveal "a precisely composed narrative design" . However, the film "never achieved the charm of the original" and " transformed the web of intrigues and deceptions into superficial confusion" .

Awards

Thandie Newton was nominated for the Black Reel Award and the Image Award in 2003 .

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  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for The Truth About Charlie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2003 (PDF; test number: 94 094 V / DVD).
  2. ^ The Village Voice
  3. ^ Lexicon of International Films , accessed on August 17, 2008

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