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Director:
Richard Berry
Writers:
Eric Assous (writer)
Tonino Benacquista (short story)
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Release Date:
2 November 2005 (France) more
Genre:
Mystery | Thriller more
Plot:
Images flash through Arthur's brain, voices buzz in his mind, uttering disjointed words and sentences... more | add synopsis
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Berry give us a poor movie, badly directed...but with, as usual, a good performance for Garcia. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
José Garcia ... Arthur Seligman

Marion Cotillard ... Isabelle Kruger / Alice
Michel Duchaussoy ... M. Seligman, le père d'Arthur
Bernard Le Coq ... Walcott / le docteur Granger
Héléna Noguerra ... Soraya
Gérald Laroche ... Le commissaire Koskas / Marc Koskas
Marysa Borini ... Mme Seligman, la mère d'Arthur
Nathalie Nell ... Dr. Brenner
Lise Lamétrie ... La gardienne
Pascal Bongard ... Clovis
Steve Campos ... Arthur Seligman (6 ans)
Hugo Brunswick ... Yvan Seligman (ado)
Dominique Bettenfeld ... Policier 1
Alexandre Donders ... Le patron du café
Arnaud Maillard ... Le petit ami de Koskas
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Le Texas n'existe pas (France) (working title)
The Black Box (Australia) (TV title)
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Runtime:
France:90 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby
Certification:
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | France:U | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/16
Company:
Europa Corp. more

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The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), mentioned by Arthur's doctor, is used to assess and record the level of consciousness of a patient after head injury. Three aspects are noted - the responses of a patient's eyes, his/ her verbal responses and motor responses. A score is generated which ranges from a low of 3 (deep unconsciousness) to 14 (or 15, depending upon which version of the scale is used). The GCS score can be used to give an indication of the level of brain injury (severe <9, moderate 9-12, minor >12). more

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1 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Berry give us a poor movie, badly directed...but with, as usual, a good performance for Garcia., 16 May 2006
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Author: SamBennardo from Liège,Belgium

Neither thriller (or very poor), nor fantastic (or missing the point), nor absolutely nothing maybe hardly an involuntary turnip...

It's beautiful to care about the shape of a picture, it's even great when we make it well and the greatest stuff it's when we've got a rather solid story... now it's not the case here, the shape is soooo bad, traveling used like amateur, pretty bad effects (see it to believe), overbids of camera movements, thanks to the director for the bad use of the provided means. When you try to make a Fincher's like, well you put all your guts in it, or do it à la classical way, we even have difficulty in being moved by the loud failure at the box office, at least the producers will think twice before giving money to Berry, especially when he tries to put on life a story so stupid. The whole would have been able to make a parody of Lynch but not at all, just a poor story too conventional, it tries to make too much with the heaviness of an elephant, let us not forget the flat and phoned development and you see them coming like hurricane, sterile intrigue with no big sense but the best is the funny finale, just stupid and miserable. I can't imagine how hard the scriptwriter of Memento will laugh by looking this failure. The themes and their so-called symbolism (such as the guilt and love) are treated without sharpness with " the elegance of a bulldozer ", all themes giving without any serious psychology, it's like heard some people at the counter of a pub on a Saturday night. We shall note Garcia's fine interpretation, a baaad from Cotillard (as usual, bah, when we aren't an actress it's more difficult) and poor Lecoq who, no chance buddy, had to play an improbable and ridiculous character.

This gives a bad B movies to put in "nanards"(ridiculous movies) of a conceited French cinema more and more sterile by trying to give itself some effects but finish like pure garbage.

what a waste of time and money

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