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Lemming (2005) -- After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...
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Gilles Marchand (writer)
Dominik Moll (writer)
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Release Date:
11 May 2005 (France) more
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After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased... full summary | add synopsis
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A 'Monk' like Existence for Filmmaker Dominik Moll
 (From ioncinema. 20 July 2009)

"Antichrist - UK Quad
 (From OhMyGore. 2 July 2009, 2:11 PM, PDT)

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A Mind-bending Film that Challenges the Viewer: What is Dream and What is Reality? more (38 total)

Cast

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Laurent Lucas ... Alain Getty

Charlotte Gainsbourg ... Bénédicte Getty

Charlotte Rampling ... Alice Pollock
André Dussollier ... Richard Pollock
Jacques Bonnaffé ... Nicolas Chevalier
Véronique Affholder ... Francine
Michel Cassagne ... Le vétérinaire
Florence Desille ... L'infirmière
Emmanuel Gayet ... Le médecin de garde
Félix Gonzales ... Félix, le fils du voisin
Nicolas Jouhet ... L'employé des eaux
Fabrice Robert ... Bruno
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129 min
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Visa d'exploitation en France : #109218 more
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Factual errors: The "flying web cam" does not have a tail rotor. more
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Continuum: Etüde für Klavier more

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A Mind-bending Film that Challenges the Viewer: What is Dream and What is Reality?, 4 September 2006
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Author: gradyharp from United States

Nightmares have never been so decidedly well scripted as in LEMMING, another bizarre creation by French director Dominik Moll ('With a Friend like Harry', 'Intimacy') and writer Gilles Marchand ('Red Lights', 'Who Killed Bambi?', 'Bon voyage', 'Tender Souls', 'Joyeux Noël'). As played by a superlative quartet of actors - Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Laurent Lucas, and André Dussollier - the film is no easy path to follow but one that in retrospect seems to fit together like a Chinese puzzle.

The story involves the 'model couple' who invite the rogue older couple to dinner where a belated arrival heralds the singly strange behavior of the boss' wife. When the outrageously 'eccentric' wife subsequently is thwarted in a seduction of the model husband and the model husband fails to immediately communicate this embarrassing encounter to his young wife, the nightmare begins: the tale embraces suicide, alienation, adultery, philandering, murder, abandonment, a car crash - all seemingly related in a linear sense. But as it turns out, in the end of the film the events appear to be the fodder of a nightmare that could only have been induced by a simple initial guilt of lack of communication.

The 'lemming' of the title refers not only to a Scandinavian rodent that is found in the plumbing of the young couple's kitchen, but it also is part of the nightmare of the concept that lemmings 'commit suicide' in their migration from their overpopulated Scandinavia to the oceans of death beyond their home. In retrospect each piece of the bizarre story is laid very carefully in the opening of the film, at times a bit occult but the pieces are there. Rampling and Gainsbourg are their usual beautiful and gifted selves in very tough roles, and the entire cast is on target, succeeding in catching us off guard at every turn. Perhaps this is not a 'great movie', but it certainly is a fine exercise for the mind and gives further evidence that Dominik Moll is a formidable artist. Grady Harp, September 06

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Lemming a lemon... gam101-1
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