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Cast

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Ornella Muti ... Madeleine Wals
Charles Berling ... Jean-Paul
Johan Leysen ... Bastien
Christian Vadim ... Audiard
Laurence Masliah ... Magda
Francis Freyburger ... Orgel
Jacques Pieiller ... Robert
Georges Du Fresne ... Allumet (as Georges Du Fresnes)
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Martin Adamiec ... Le peintre
Xavier Boulanger ... Le docteur Petra
Pierre Diependale ... Le notaire
Ricardo Di Napoli ... Le médecin
Geneviève Faul ... L'assistante sociale
Dinah Faust ... La voyante
Christophe Feltz ... Klaus
Dennis Germain ... Antoine
Sonia Hell
Roland Kieffer ... Le taximan
Jean Lorrain ... Alex
Anne Muller ... Le chef d'orchestre
Fausto Olivares ... Le policier
Marie Payen ... Claudia
Catherine Pietri ... Berthe
André Pomarat ... Le majordome de Vogel
Roger Scaravella ... Le clochard
Luc Schillinger ... Le maître d'hôtel
Stefan Schmitt ... L'homme Gretel
Valérie Schwarcz ... La femme Gretel
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The lapse of memory is for scenarists., 15 September 2001
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Author: dbdumonteil

How many times was amnesia used in thrillers?Here,Charles Berling's character is a cross between Michel Auclair's one in "pas de pitié pour les femmes"(1950) and Tom Berenger's one in "shattered" (1990)None of those two works were particularly memorable,but "shattered" provided its fair share of thrills(remember the scene in which Berenger finds back ..his head).

The French attempt is really pitiful.It would have taken writers of Boileau-Narcejac calibre to pull off such a far-fetched story :conspiracies,mystery characters,psychological tension necessitate a concrete script.Here there are enough plot holes to fill the Albert Hall,as the Beatles used to sing.Actors do not seem to believe in what they are playing.At least "shattered " ,if unlikely,followed a logical story.

And ,as far as amnesia is concerned,you will always be better off with Hitchcock's " spellbound",(1945)which remains an unsurpassed model of the genre.If you have not seen this masterpiece yet,please do it!

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