La maison assassinée (Georges Lautner, 1988)
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Writing credits: Jacky Cukier, Georges Lautner & Pierre Magnan
Genre: Mystery | Drama
Cast:
Patrick Bruel ... Séraphin Monge
Anne Brochet ... Marie Dormeur
Agnès Blanchot ... Rose Pujol
Ingrid Held ... Charmaine Dupin
Yann Collette ... Patrice Dupin
Jean-Pierre Sentier ... Célestat Dormeur
Roger Jendly ... Zorme
Christian Barbier ... Brigue
Martine Sarcey ... Clorinde Dormeur
Maria Meriko ... la Tricanote
Claude Evrard ... Gaspard Dupin
André Rouyer ... Didon Pujol
Gérard Caillaud ... Le compagnon à 42 ans
Jenny Clève ... La Grenadière - gouvernante des Dupin
Yves Vincent ... Le juge / The judge
Jean-Claude Bourbault ... Félicien Monge
Vincent Vittoz ... Le compagnon à 18 ans
Laurent Gendron ... Le simplet
Anik Belaubre ... La mère Dupin
[quote]In 1988, La maison assassinée which ranks among the best French films of the decade. It remained ignored - I hope that some day people will give it the place it deserves.
La maison assassinée came along as a shock in the 80s: they did not make movies like this any longer. It is a return to the 1890s melodrama - because we're closer to black melo than to thriller - which was thriving at the turn of the century with Xavier de Montépin (La porteuse de pain) or Adolphe d'Ennery (Les deux orphelines which became Griffith's Orphans of the Storm).But inside the melodramatic elements, we've got to notice the strong presence of the murder mystery à la Maurice Leblanc (and his hero Arsène Lupin). And this kind of rural detective melodrama, this is what Jacques Becker (in his masterpiece Goupi Mains Rouges) or Christian-Jacques (L'assassinat du Père Noël) did in their time, but it had been forty years before Lautner. Jean Becker, (Jacques's son) tackled the genre but his movie (L'été meurtrier, 1982) suffered from a weak screenplay.
La maison assassinée can boast a very strong screenplay. Adapted from a contemporary writer, Pierre Magnan, the story will grab you to the very end.
So much for the prelims: in the darkest night, a man asks for refuge in a remote house; outside three masked men are waiting: are they murderers?
A whole family is slain, and the only survivor is a baby who twenty years later comes back from WWI as Patrick Bruel to be confronted with the villagers' hostility: they say he brings bad luck. He becomes an outcast. But he won't give up: he wants to know what happened to his parents, and to avenge them.
The post-WWI atmosphere is wonderfully recreated with the women left alone during the war, the draft dodgers who used to work behind a desk (the judge in the scene with Yann Colette, who was disfigured), the girls in search of a husband, because of the dearth of young men.
There's everything in this far-fetched but absorbing story: bewitchment complete with needles and dolls, a castle with ferocious dogs, an old woman who resembles a witch (a remarkable Maria Meriko), and strange deaths that happen without the hero's intervention. Who is working behind the scenes? Everything revolves around the number three: three masked marauders, three letters, three girls who move around the hero, three places (the village, the doomed house and the castle)...
This movie was far from the routine of the dull French cinema of the eighties. Add the marvellous cinematography which enhances the splendid rural landscapes, and you wonder why Georges Lautner did not make more movies like this one.[/quote]
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IMDb
Writing credits: Jacky Cukier, Georges Lautner & Pierre Magnan
Genre: Mystery | Drama
Cast:
Patrick Bruel ... Séraphin Monge
Anne Brochet ... Marie Dormeur
Agnès Blanchot ... Rose Pujol
Ingrid Held ... Charmaine Dupin
Yann Collette ... Patrice Dupin
Jean-Pierre Sentier ... Célestat Dormeur
Roger Jendly ... Zorme
Christian Barbier ... Brigue
Martine Sarcey ... Clorinde Dormeur
Maria Meriko ... la Tricanote
Claude Evrard ... Gaspard Dupin
André Rouyer ... Didon Pujol
Gérard Caillaud ... Le compagnon à 42 ans
Jenny Clève ... La Grenadière - gouvernante des Dupin
Yves Vincent ... Le juge / The judge
Jean-Claude Bourbault ... Félicien Monge
Vincent Vittoz ... Le compagnon à 18 ans
Laurent Gendron ... Le simplet
Anik Belaubre ... La mère Dupin
[quote]In 1988, La maison assassinée which ranks among the best French films of the decade. It remained ignored - I hope that some day people will give it the place it deserves.
La maison assassinée came along as a shock in the 80s: they did not make movies like this any longer. It is a return to the 1890s melodrama - because we're closer to black melo than to thriller - which was thriving at the turn of the century with Xavier de Montépin (La porteuse de pain) or Adolphe d'Ennery (Les deux orphelines which became Griffith's Orphans of the Storm).But inside the melodramatic elements, we've got to notice the strong presence of the murder mystery à la Maurice Leblanc (and his hero Arsène Lupin). And this kind of rural detective melodrama, this is what Jacques Becker (in his masterpiece Goupi Mains Rouges) or Christian-Jacques (L'assassinat du Père Noël) did in their time, but it had been forty years before Lautner. Jean Becker, (Jacques's son) tackled the genre but his movie (L'été meurtrier, 1982) suffered from a weak screenplay.
La maison assassinée can boast a very strong screenplay. Adapted from a contemporary writer, Pierre Magnan, the story will grab you to the very end.
So much for the prelims: in the darkest night, a man asks for refuge in a remote house; outside three masked men are waiting: are they murderers?
A whole family is slain, and the only survivor is a baby who twenty years later comes back from WWI as Patrick Bruel to be confronted with the villagers' hostility: they say he brings bad luck. He becomes an outcast. But he won't give up: he wants to know what happened to his parents, and to avenge them.
The post-WWI atmosphere is wonderfully recreated with the women left alone during the war, the draft dodgers who used to work behind a desk (the judge in the scene with Yann Colette, who was disfigured), the girls in search of a husband, because of the dearth of young men.
There's everything in this far-fetched but absorbing story: bewitchment complete with needles and dolls, a castle with ferocious dogs, an old woman who resembles a witch (a remarkable Maria Meriko), and strange deaths that happen without the hero's intervention. Who is working behind the scenes? Everything revolves around the number three: three masked marauders, three letters, three girls who move around the hero, three places (the village, the doomed house and the castle)...
This movie was far from the routine of the dull French cinema of the eighties. Add the marvellous cinematography which enhances the splendid rural landscapes, and you wonder why Georges Lautner did not make more movies like this one.[/quote]
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