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L'ombre du doute

  • 19931993
  • 1h 45m
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6.2/10
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L'ombre du doute (1993)
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Alexandrine, 12, is the only witness to a crime she can barely denounce. Yet, a few words will suffice to spread panic around her. Why is she bringing horrific charges against her father and... Read allAlexandrine, 12, is the only witness to a crime she can barely denounce. Yet, a few words will suffice to spread panic around her. Why is she bringing horrific charges against her father and then retracting?Alexandrine, 12, is the only witness to a crime she can barely denounce. Yet, a few words will suffice to spread panic around her. Why is she bringing horrific charges against her father and then retracting?
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
166
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    • Aline Issermann
    • Martine Fadier-Nisse(collaboration)
    • Frédérique Gruyer(collaboration)
    • Aline Issermann(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Mireille Perrier
    • Alain Bashung
    • Sandrine Blancke
    • Aline Issermann
    • Martine Fadier-Nisse(collaboration)
    • Frédérique Gruyer(collaboration)
    • Aline Issermann(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Mireille Perrier
    • Alain Bashung
    • Sandrine Blancke
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    Mireille Perrier
    Mireille Perrier
    • Mother
    Alain Bashung
    Alain Bashung
    • Father
    Sandrine Blancke
    • Alexandrine
    Emmanuelle Riva
    Emmanuelle Riva
    • Grandmother
    Michel Aumont
    Michel Aumont
    • Grandfather
    Luis Issermann
    • Pierre
    Roland Bertin
    • Judge
    Dominique Lavanant
    Dominique Lavanant
    • Alexandrine's Teacher
    Thierry Lhermitte
    Thierry Lhermitte
    • Alexandrine's Lawyer
    Jean-Pierre Sentier
    • Maître Toussaint…
    Féodor Atkine
    Féodor Atkine
    • Therapist
    Isabelle Petit-Jacques
    • Therapist
    Cynthia Gavas
    • BPM Inspector
    Éric Franquelin
    • BPM Inspector
    • (as Eric Franklin)
    Simon de La Brosse
    Simon de La Brosse
    • BPM Inspector
    Jean-Marc Stehlé
    Jean-Marc Stehlé
    • Juvenile Magistrate
    Josiane Balasko
    Josiane Balasko
    • Sophia Berger
    Gérard Touratier
    • Jean's Father…
      • Aline Issermann
      • Martine Fadier-Nisse(collaboration)
      • Frédérique Gruyer(collaboration)
      • Aline Issermann(adaptation) (dialogue) (screenplay)
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    8/10
    Being Donkey Skin.
    Aline Isserman is Yannick Andréi 's sister-in-arms :both produce works which deal with the woman's position in society ; Andréi was the first to devote a whole film to a rape and its aftermath (after ida Lupino's "outrage" in the USA) ,Isserman broaches here incest , in a much more convincing way that Malle's insignificant "souffle au coeur"(1971)

    Both principals are either almost unknown thespians (Mireille Périer) or a pop singer (the late Alain Bashung ,whose performance is thoroughly remarkable ; the viewer does not know whether he must hate or pity him ;his final confession will haunt you long after the screening).On the other hand,the supporting parts are played by bigger French actors :Dominique Lavanant, Thierry Lhermitte ,the great Emmanuelle riva in a role unworthy of herself) The young Sandrine Blancke , in a part of an abused child ,gives it all without overplaying ;she remains sparing of words and gestures.

    A picnic in the country shows the perfect family;but at school , an essay makes the teacher suspicious : a personal version of Charles Perrault 's "Donkey Skin" in which a king wants to marry his daughter :refusing the obligatory happy end of the fairy tale ,no "and they lived happily ever after" but a tragical fate lies in store for the princess .

    And if this essay were the key to a family tragedy? Much to father's displeasure ,a social worker and a youth worker come to visit the house and they find strange things;little by little ,cracks in the mirror appear : the girl does not want to sleep without her pet dog (who protects her) , she lies undressed on her bed ,she becomes anorexic ...She confesses unthinkable things to the police and the father is accused .

    Despite the brilliance of the cast , the screenplay is sometimes overloaded :it works when it deals with dad's background , who remembers his childhood fears ,with a bigger-than -nature father who would take him to hunting rapaces with him ,and who abused his children too ;these fears never went away and emerge again as he makes his way through adulthood and come back at night,when his wife ,who works by night as a nurse,is away.

    On the other hand, the mother's past is overblown and does not bring anything to the plot :doesn't one learn that she had a little brother who died two years before she was born ,and that her own mother has always had a grudge against her and demanded her to be perfect ?If it were not enough ,the movie has international pretensions and shows one of Saddam Hussein' s hostages ,the famous little boy and his cornflakes for breakfast.

    In spite of these reservations ,it is a movie to be recommended ,for this kind of horror happens every day,everywhere.
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      • October 20, 1993 (France)
      • France
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      • TF1 Films Production
      • Cofimage 4
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