Arts24 - Monica Bellucci in a Chilling French Home-Invasion Thriller
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arts24 - Monica Bellucci in a Chilling French Home-Invasion Thriller
On this week’s Arts 24, Manon Kerjean from Lost in Frenchlation joins Charlotte Lam to take a closer look at three French films of the moment: From a terrifying birthday party to a relationship that slowly turns toxic, this month’s French cinema brings plenty of tension, drama and dark humour.
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Stories of the night, in theaters this Wednesday, is the claustrophobic adaptation of the thick novel of Laurent Mauvignier: Hafsia Herzi and Bastien Bouillon, Benoît Magimel and Monica Bellucci, in the hard of a hard night in a hamlet of Touraine. Tordu and held, by a great mastery.
When a birthday party turns into a nightmare, it is the subject of Stories of the Night, a novel by Laurent Mauvignier adapted to cinema by Léa Mysius. For her third feature film, the director directs Hafsia Herzi, Monica Bellucci, Benoît Magimel and Bastien Bouillon in a black film: the story of three men who land one night on an isolated farm where a family celebrates an anniversary, and where a heavy secret will be revealed.
Léa Mysius reduced «Histoires de la nuit», a novel by Laurent Mauvignier, to an intense suspense, albeit highly unpleasantIt is always risky to want to carry on the screen a novel of 600 pages considered a literary success: by degreasing the text to preserve only the action and the atmosphere, one can mislead everything that made his flavor and put readers on the back. But for whom did not read the cobblestone of Laurent Mauvignier, already enti…
Adapted from Laurent Mauvignier's bestseller, on a family sequestered by intruders, Lea Mysius' classy thriller does not keep his promises and is entangled in artifice.
With this adaptation of Laurent Mauvignier's novel, Léa Mysius signs a rural thriller as tense as it is sensitive. Secrets buried, violence inherited or fragile family ties make up a work where the night reveals what the characters tried to keep in the shadows.
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