La maison Nucingen (2008)

Réalisateur:

Raoul Ruiz

Scénaristes:

Raoul Ruiz (scenario)
Honoré de Balzac (based on a story)

Date de sortie:

3 juin 2009 (France)

Genre:

Horreur

Plot Keywords:

Surrealism | Husband Wife Relationship | Haunting | Edgar Allan Poe | Oneiric

Avis des utilisateurs:

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend ."...

Ensemble

Elsa Zylberstein	...	Anne-Marie
Jean-Marc Barr	...	William Henry James III
Laurent Malet	...	Bastien
Audrey Marnay	...	Léonore
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre	...	Lotte (as Laure de Clermont)
Thomas Durand	...	Dieter
Miriam Heard	...	Ully
Luis Mora	...	El doctor
Anna Sigalevitch	...	(voice)
Lolita Chammah	...	(voice)
Olivier Torres	...	(voice)
François Margolin	...	(voice)

Réalisé par
Raoul Ruiz

Scénaristes
Raoul Ruiz		(scenario)
Honoré de Balzac		(based on a story)

Produit par
Christian Aspee	....	executive producer
Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre	....	associate producer
François Margolin	....	producer

Musique originale
Jorge Arriagada

Image
Jacques Bouquin
Inti Briones

Montage
Béatrice Clérico

Création des décors
Verónica Astudillo
Raoul Ruiz

Direction artistique
Verónica Astudillo

Création des costumes
Lola Cabezas
Valeria Sarmiento

Maquillage
Clara Farto	....	makeup artist

Directeur de production
Florence Cohen	....	production manager
Andres Oyarzún	....	production manager

Technicien du son
Daniel Gries	....	foley artist
Claire-Anne Largeron	....	sound editor
Gérard Rousseau	....	sound
Felipe Zabala	....	sound

Département Musique
Anna Sigalevitch	....	musician: piano

Divers
Geraldine Guardia	....	continuity

Companies de production

• MACT Productions (co-production)
• Atlantis Films (co-production)
• Margo Films (co-production)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)

Distributeurs

• Zelig Films (2009) (France) (theatrical)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Mademoiselle Christine (France) (working title)
Miss Christina (International: English title) (working title)
Nucingen House (International: English title) (festival title)

Durée:

South Korea:87 min (Pusan International Film Festival) | UK:94 min (London Film Festival) | Argentina:94 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

Pays:

Romania | France | Chile

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

Argentina:16

Lieux de tournage:

Chile

Société:

MACT Productions

Anecdotes:

During prep, cast and crew were asked to watch Dreyer's Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932), Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934) and Tourneur's I Walked With a Zombie (1943).

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend ."...

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

...or so-in French translation- said the father of William James III (no relation), says William, alias Pee Wee Crane, pulp novelist, who sitting in a restaurant hears invisible diners (mis)tell his own story. Most of the film is a flashback- the others' version, William's version, a mixture of both?- we can't know.

William has broken his promise to his wife, Anne-Marie, and gambled again- this time successfully. They go to what he has won; an estate- in Patagonia in 1925 we eventually learn- where the inhabitants are Austrian by birth but insist on speaking French, where the fact that William now owns it makes no difference to the original inhabitants (who aren't very concerned about whether they are dead or alive either). Slowly and formally a strange and mysterious ghost story emerges. It is sumptuously and elegantly filmed, with events taking place off-screen or behind the camera, relishing oddities and absurdities and finally an epilogue ties it all together in an arbitrary but logical way- a characteristic Ruiz film, which recognises it is a film and relishes it too.