L'empreinte de l'ange (2008)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.8/10   

Réalisateur:

Safy Nebbou

Writers:

Cyril Gomez-Mathieu (writer)
Safy Nebbou (writer)

Release Date:

13 août 2008 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drame

Plot Keywords:

Cafe | Instinct | Harassment | Family Relationships | Dead Daughter

Avis des utilisateurs:

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Memory

Ensemble

Catherine Frot	...	Elsa Valentin
Sandrine Bonnaire	...	Claire Vigneaux
Wladimir Yordanoff	...	Bernard Vigneaux
Antoine Chappey	...	Antoine
Michel Aumont	...	Alain Valentin
Michèle Moretti	...	Colette
Sophie Quinton	...	Laurence
Geneviève Rey-Penchenat	...	Mme Corlet
Héloïse Cunin	...	Lola
Arthur Vaughan-Whitehead	...	Thomas
Zacharie Chasseriaud	...	Jérémy
Jérémie Nebbou	...	Le policier
Marie-Julie Baup	...	L'infirmière
Pascal Elso	...	L'homme du bar
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Safy Nebbou	...	Le client de la pharmacie
Isabelle Siou

Réalisé par
Safy Nebbou

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Cyril Gomez-Mathieu		writer
Safy Nebbou		writer

Produit par
Michel Saint-Jean	....	producer

Musique originale
Hugues Tabar-Nouval

Image
Eric Guichard

Montage
Bernard Sasia

Décorateur de plateau
Olivia Bloch-Lainé

Maquillage
Fabienne Robineau	....	key makeup artist

Directeur de production
Thomas Coudriet	....	assistant unit manager
Benjamin Dewaele	....	assistant unit manager

Assistant réalisateur
Alexandra Denni	....	first assistant director
Marie Doller	....	assistant director: pre-shoot
Juliette Maillard	....	first assistant director
Charlotte Marrel	....	assistant director

Art Department
Jonathan Delerue	....	storyboard artist

Technicien du son
Jérôme Aghion	....	sound
Esther Frey	....	assistant sound editor
Benoît Hillebrant	....	sound editor
Pascal Jasmes	....	boom operator
Anne Le Campion	....	sound re-recording mixer
Alain Lévy	....	post-synchronization
Frank Struys	....	sound
Rodolphe Vassails	....	sound

Cascadeur
Laurent Larrieu	....	stunt coordinator: marine unit

Camera and Electrical Department
Jacques Ballard	....	camera assistant: underwater unit
Matthieu-David Cournot	....	camera assistant: underwater unit
Mathieu Le Bothlan	....	first assistant camera
Loïc Savouré	....	additional first assistant camera
Benjamin Speyer	....	crane technician
Antoine Struyf	....	assistant camera
Philippe Vene	....	camera operator: underwater unit

Editorial Department
Frederic Jupin	....	digital conformation

Divers
Rachel Corlet-Soulier	....	script supervisor
Philippe Letode	....	location scout
Corinne Saglio	....	production accountant

Production Companies

• Diaphana Films

Distributors

• Benelux Film Distribution (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Lumière Home Entertainment (2009) (Belgium) (DVD)
• Lumière Home Entertainment (2009) (Belgium) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Lumière Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Lumière Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Metrodome Distribution (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
• Odeon (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Xenix Filmdistribution (2008-2009) (Switzerland) (theatrical)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Mark of an Angel (International: English title)

Durée:

95 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | France:U | Netherlands:12

Company:

Diaphana Films

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Memory

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This has several things in common with Ruiz' Comedy de l'Innocence: in both a mother has lost a young child several years before the start of the film, in both the mother forms an attachment to a child with parents of its own and in both there are implausibilities which are, to some extent, compensated for by outstanding acting. As the two previous posters have already revealed the plot I need only reiterate the SPOILER warning before discussing the flaws. We meet Catherine Frot in the midst of a divorce and sharing custody of her son, Thomas, with her estranged husband. At a children's party she appears drawn to a girl of perhaps seven or eight and determines to find out all she can about her. Turns out that Lola is the daughter of Sandrine Bonnaire and has a brother, Jeremie, the same age as Thomas who Frot uses as a lever to insinuate herself into the Bonnaire household. After an early meeting Bonnaire remarks to her husband what a nice woman Frot is. Frot becomes convinced that Lola is the daughter who burned to death in a hospital fire seven years ago and confides as much in her parents. She confronts Bonnaire and offers to pay for a DNA test. Bonnaire naturally thinks she is crazy but when Bonnaire's husband says a DNA test will clearly resolve the matter Bonnaire admits to Frot that Lola is indeed her child. Bonnaire was at the hospital, saw Frot out cold and assumed she was dead. She then exchanged her own dead infant with Frot's. Flaw #1. How could Frot detect that a seven year old girl was the child she last saw at FIVE DAYS OLD. How come Bonnaire NEVER RECOGNISED Frot when she later admits thinking she saw her dead. Apart from this Frot is outstanding and Bonnaire only a whisker behind.