Room 401 - Return from the past
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Room 401 - Return from the past |
| Original title | La Disparue de Deauville |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sophie Marceau |
| script | Sophie Marceau, Gianguido Spinelli , Jacques Deschamps , Rania Meziani |
| production |
Ariane Guez , Oury Milshtein |
| music | Franck Louise |
| camera | Laurent Dailland |
| cut | Laurent Rouan |
| occupation | |
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Room 401 - A Return from the Past is a 2007 French thriller in which Sophie Marceau worked as a director, screenwriter and actress. Christopher Lambert plays the lead role of a paranoid criminalist.
action
Police lieutenant Jacques Renard lost his wife Chloé in an accident, a severe blow to the seasoned police officer. Since then he has been plagued by delusions and suicidal thoughts, followed by a stay of several months in psychiatry with appropriate medication. His motivation to consistently continue the treatment is currently very weak in Jacques. He prefers to stop by his office every now and then to hear what's new.
One day an unfamiliar woman with a striking appearance asks him for help. He should speak to the manager of the Hotel Normandy and ask for room 401. The encounter made a lasting impression on him. The feeling that he knows this mysterious lady from before creeps into him. Renard pretends to be an investigative policeman in the hotel. Director Antoine Berengere - an aging, depressive curmudgeon - has disappeared with his hunting rifle, which is why the family has already called the police. His son Camille (pronounced Kam ih ) receives Renard instead. He weighs down that there is no room 401 in the house, but he looks visibly nervous. At least Renard is allowed to inspect the missing director's private rooms. In the closet he then finds the key to room 401, which he takes away unnoticed. Renard finds the isolated hotel room and looks around in peace. It obviously belongs to a woman and is decorated over and over with photos of actress Victoria Benutti, who was killed in a car accident 36 years ago and looks a lot like the mysterious stranger who sent him here. In the meantime, figures haunted his eyes again and again, paired with discomfort, which could be due to his illness.
On a second inspection he finds a photo that brings a little more clarity to the mysterious story. It shows his therapy group in front of the psychiatric building. Not only he, but also the mysterious stranger is among the patients. To find out more, Renard goes to the psychiatric clinic where he began his therapy a few months ago. The ward nurse reports that Renard made friends with the suicidal patient Lucie. The psychotropic drugs apparently caused memory loss in Renard, which is why he does not remember the liaison . Unfortunately, Lucie's family name is not revealed there for reasons of data protection. Stealing the clinic computer does not help him in this regard either, because access to patient data is password-protected. His illegal behavior - theft is not the only crime - more likely to lead to his imprisonment.
Antoine's disfigured body has since been found. Renard's claim that a homeless man died instead of Antoine Berengere cannot be taken seriously by any of his colleagues at the police station. Renard had made a fool of himself too many times in the past.
Camille wants to visit Lieutenant Renard in his private apartment, but finds the apartment empty and unlocked. At that very moment, a duchess, a guest at the Hotel Normandy, is speaking on Renard's answering machine. From her, Renard received basic knowledge of the Berengeres family history during his stay at the hotel. Camille hears from the answering machine that he was looked after by a nanny named Evelyne until he was three years old. The following night he confronts his stepmother. Flashbacks now show that his birth mother (Victoria Benutti) and her lover (Albert), whom she even had a daughter (Lucie), suffered a car accident while fleeing from her despotic husband and died. Antoine had one-year-old Lucie raised and adopted by the nanny Evelyne, who previously looked after Camille. Camille, on the other hand, grew up with his father and his new wife Mélanie. The fact that he has a sister was kept from him. As Lucie became more and more like her mother over time, Antoine fell in love with her. That's why he spent a lot of time with the adolescent and let her go for nothing.
In order to be able to live together with his now adult foster daughter under a new identity, he staged his suicide. Nobody but Renard, who was considered insane, became suspicious. Lucie himself gave the impetus. She hoped for salvation, because Antoine became violent when he was in a bad mood.
Renard is able to escape from custody and finds the whereabouts of Lucie and Antoine. A scuffle breaks out on Antoine's yacht, and Antoine falls overboard. It can be assumed that he did not survive this fall.
Lucie enjoys the freedom she has gained. The last shot shows Jacques and Lucie closely embraced.
useful information
Sophie Marceau came up with the idea for the thriller while she was a guest at the Hotel Barrière Le Normandy in Deauville in 2002 . Much of the filming took place in said hotel. There are also scenes that were shot in Le Havre , e. B. the exterior shots in front of the police station. Cap Gris-Nez , in the far north of France , was chosen for the recordings on the steep coast . The lighthouse of Cap Gris-Nez can be seen briefly. The production budget is given at around € 5.23 million. The original French-language title can be translated as "The Missing of Deauville".
The producers Oury Milshtein and Ariane Guez have short appearances as wagon master and nurse, respectively. For the role of Camille was Vincent Perez provided with Sophie Marceau already in reste Je! and Fanfan stood together in front of the camera. He canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
Lucie Darcan drives a Volvo 1800s.
criticism
“Sophie Marceau is responsible here as director, screenwriter and actress at the same time and you can confidently state that this multiple burden in no way had a negative effect on the overall result. A really interesting story is told, which can even cause some confusion for the audience at the beginning and gives the impression that you are dealing with a real mystery thriller. Only in the course of time do you recognize the connections that are not yet apparent at the beginning. And that is precisely what creates a constant arc of tension that runs through the entire film, without creating anything like absolute high tension. [...] Even a few smaller logic holes do not change the fact that you are served an altogether exciting search for the truth, which already exerts a strong fascination on the viewer. [...] Room 401 is certainly not an action-packed high-tension thriller, there are no particular highlights, but overall, you get to see an exciting and interesting thriller of the somewhat calmer kind, which is in the upper midfield of the genre. "
Web links
- Room 401 - Return of the past in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Room 401 - Return from the past in the German synchronous file
- Entry in the Lumiere film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for room 401 - return from the past . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 580 DVD).
- ↑ a b History of origins in the French Allocine film database
- ↑ compared with recordings in Google Streetview: Chaussée Pondichéry, Le Havre
- ↑ JP's Box Office
- ↑ Cast list in the IMDb
- ↑ Marc Jozefiak: Room 401 - Return from the past. Zauberspiegel, accessed September 7, 2015 .