Les amitiés maléfiques (2006)

A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar

Director:

Emmanuel Bourdieu

Writers:

Emmanuel Bourdieu, Marcia Romano

Stars:

Malik Zidi, Thibault Vinçon, Alexandre Steiger

5 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
Malik Zidi	...	Eloi Duhaut
Thibault Vinçon	...	André Morney
Alexandre Steiger	...	Alexandre Pariente
Thomas Blanchard	...	Edouard Franchon
Dominique Blanc	...	Florence Duhaut
Natacha Régnier	...	Marguerite
Jacques Bonnaffé	...	Professeur Mortier
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yves Arnaud	...	Colonel
Cécile Bouillot	...	Libraire
Saliha Bourdieu	...	Femme de Prof. Mortier
Botum Dupuis	...	Alice
Françoise Gillard	...	Suzanne
Francoise Girard
Eugène Green	...	David Eckhart
Geneviève Mnich	...	L'éditrice

Storyline

A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar

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Plot Keywords:

student | actor | friendship | doctorate | paris france | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

27 September 2006 (France)

Also Known As:

Poison Friends

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Box Office

Budget:

€900,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$2,980 (USA) (27 April 2007)

Gross:

$12,404 (USA) (25 May 2007)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fondation Beaumarchais, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Procirep

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

DTS

Color:

Color Color (35 mm version)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

Ordinary world in a new light

Delicate film about illusions and truth. About trust and self-introspection, about fiction, desires and social masks. About literature as spider web and structure of an age.

Nostalgic pledge for discover of reality's nuances, search of intellectual traps, definition of master and errors, appearances and compassion. The other like perfect prey of our mediocrity. Questions without answers and forms of refuge.

It is not a spectacular movie and the ethic circle is one of signs for French vision about social realities but the message, the acting, the lights and the shadows, atmosphere and the subtle end, ambiguous beginning and images of idol-victim, measure of gestures and skin of dialogs, tension and waiting, the carpet of lies and the fight between ambition and its instruments, obsessions and some words of books, self-legitimation and split dreams, taste of Dostoevsky's "The Possessed" makes a special occasion to look an ordinary world in a new light:small sins and vanities ashes.