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Pascal Laugier (writer)
Release Date:
23 June 2004 (France)
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Plot:
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with...
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Vaccum movie with some effective silly scenes.
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Virginie Ledoyen | ... | Anna Jurin | |
| Lou Doillon | ... | Judith | |
| Catriona MacColl | ... | Francard | |
| Dorina Lazar | ... | Helenka | |
| Virginie Darmon | ... | Mathilde | |
| Jérôme Soufflet | ... | Daniel | |
| Marie Herry | ... | Marie | |
| Eric Prat | ... | Le responsable des services sociaux | |
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| Marin Chouquet | ... | Alex | |
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Also Known As:
House of Voices (International: English title) (USA) (DVD title)
Sanatorium (France) (working title)
St. Ange (Philippines: English title) (poster title)
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Sanatorium (France) (working title)
St. Ange (Philippines: English title) (poster title)
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Rated R for some nudity and disturbing images.
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Runtime:
France:98 min | Philippines:99 min
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2.35 : 1 more
Certification:
Finland:K-15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Malaysia:18SG |
Malaysia:U (cut) |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
France:-12 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Singapore:PG (edited version) |
Australia:MA
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In Mexico the film was released with the title "El Convento" ("The Convent") as the action happens in an orphanage. In fact, you can see only two nuns in the movie
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Continuity: When Anna and Judith are trying to escape from Helenka, Anna wraps only her right hand in paper to break the mirror, seconds later both of her hands have the protection to avoid cutting herself.
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First off, this is supposed to come out as a treat for fans of Fulci's The Beyond (it even features the return of its star Catriona MacColl) and his other gloomy films. So it's got nice locations (romanian studios), pretty minimal as the whole movie takes place in a great mansion supposed to be a WWII orphanage, its narrowing woods and cellars. Cast is pretty top notch with kinky Virginie Ledoyen (L'Eau Froide, La Cérémonie, La fille seule - her only good movies in my opinion - The Beach) and wacko Lou Doillon (Jane Birkin's daughter - one of the most irritating actress to come out of french cinema lately, but physically disturbing and therefore probably appropriate for this movie!).
Beautiful photography, gloomy atmosphere, weird and nasty children (kinda reminiscent of the evil ones in Cronenberg's The Brood, but not really either), derelict locations, potential scream queens, this movie shows good production values but sadly remains pretty lazy storywise. I won't describe the story too much, but after a pretty classy/classic (easy) hour of ghost induced story, the movie goes wacko and tries to become a bit disturbing. Unfortunately, even if the scenery and filming shows you some very weird and dare I say effective clinical & morbid images (the only part giving the movie a little of its own personality), those images bears no real depth and fall flat in utter stupidity! So even though I admire the plastic quality of the last half hour, I remain highly skeptical in its capacity to convey an interesting story falling back on its feet without relying on weirdness because the lazy writer(s?) have no real vision of the story as a whole. Also, the twist revelation about the cats killer's identity is really lame. Sadly, another example of France incapacity to produce thoughtful and provocative fantasy...
Think a mixture of Furie's "The Entity", Robert Wise's "The Haunting" with Fulci's "The Beyond" and Chris Cunningham's clinical imagery.
Just one's opinion.
4/10