Les portes de la gloire (2001)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Christian Merret-Palmair

Writers:

Pascal Lebrun (writer)
Christian Merret-Palmair (writer)
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Release Date:

13 June 2001 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Door To Door Salesman | Russian Roulette | Salesman | Car Accident | Swimming Pool

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Benoît Poelvoorde	...	Régis Demanet
Michel Duchaussoy	...	Balzac
Etienne Chicot	...	Patrick Sergent
Yvon Back	...	Michel Moineau
Julien Boisselier	...	Jérôme Le Tallec
Jean-Luc Bideau	...	Paul Beaumont
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jacques Bondoux
Edwin Gerard
Henriette Palazzi
Arlette Renard
Sophie Schneider

Directed by
Christian Merret-Palmair

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Pascal Lebrun		writer
Christian Merret-Palmair		writer
Benoît Poelvoorde		writer

Produced by
Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela	....	producer
Nicolas Leclercq	....	executive producer
Nicolas Leclercq	....	producer
Olivier Rausin	....	producer

Original Music by
Alexandre Desplat

Film Editing by
Philippe Bourgueil

Art Direction by
Jean-Jacques Gernolle

Production Management
Mathieu Bompoint	....	post-production manager
Marc Dalmans	....	unit manager
Olivier Rausin	....	production manager

Art Department
Fabienne Guillot	....	prop buyer

Sound Department
Etienne Curchod	....	sound
Emmanuel de Boissieu	....	sound mixer
Dominique Eyraud	....	boom operator
Franco Piscopo	....	sound mixer
Philippe van Leer	....	foley artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Bruno Verstraete	....	gaffer

Editorial Department
Anne Frey	....	assistant editor
Gordana Othnin-Girard	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Francoise Baranger	....	production assistant
Philippe Valentin	....	head production accountant

Production Companies

• Artémis Productions
• Bac Films
• Christian Merret-Palmair
• Entropie Films
• M6 Films
• Noé Productions
• TPS Cinéma

Distributors

• Mars Distribution

Also Known As:

Doors of Glory (International: English title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

France:U | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud)

Company:

Artémis Productions

Movie Connections:

Features The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Why is it so under-rated ?

I just watched "les portes de la gloire" on DVD (no special need to see it in a theatre, this is not the big picture on wonderful sets !). I actualy give it a 10/10, that maybe doesn't mean the same for me than for others : it means first that I entered the movie, it means it was worth watching, it means it was not stupid (or stupid enough to make think)... It means it is a real movie. "Les portes de la gloire" is about a few salesman (we say "VRP" in france, I don't know the name in english : a saleseman "on the road"). They sell books about we-don't-realy-know-what, something like an encyclopedia. These men force unemployed people (for instance) to buy useless books. It is not a realy good job. They all are a little stupid, of course. Well, what else can I say ? The characters work fine, there is a lot of funny situations, and there is no "happy end" : nobody gets rich suddenly or start another job, the men stay what they are. The real good point here is how much we can believe it is not caricature, but the real world. Salesman movies could become a "genre" with stuff like this movie or "comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard" (Michel Audiard). Poelvorde is, as always, brilliant.