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The Victims

Original title: Les victimes
  • 19961996
  • 1h 34m
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The Victims (1996)
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Paris, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a large-scale operation in Morocco, he asks Pierre... Read allParis, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a large-scale operation in Morocco, he asks Pierre to join them in the desert. Bernard is obssessed by another woman, but who is she really?Paris, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a large-scale operation in Morocco, he asks Pierre to join them in the desert. Bernard is obssessed by another woman, but who is she really?
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    • Patrick Grandperret
  • Writers
    • Pierre Boileau(novel)
    • Thomas Narcejac(novel)
    • Patrick Grandperret(adaptation and dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Vincent Lindon
    • Jacques Dutronc
    • Florence Thomassin
    • Patrick Grandperret
  • Writers
    • Pierre Boileau(novel)
    • Thomas Narcejac(novel)
    • Patrick Grandperret(adaptation and dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Vincent Lindon
    • Jacques Dutronc
    • Florence Thomassin
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    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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    Vincent Lindon
    Vincent Lindon
    • Pierre Duval
    Jacques Dutronc
    Jacques Dutronc
    • Bernard Jaillac
    Florence Thomassin
    • Manou
    Karin Viard
    Karin Viard
    • Claire Jaillac
    Gérard Darmon
    Gérard Darmon
    • Bleche
    Cathy Capvert
    • La secrétaire de Pierre
    Richard Morgiève
    • Richard, l'écrivain
    Mohamed Amgoune
    Mohamed Nesrate
    • Receptionniste
    Jamal Amiri
    Isabelle Alexis
    Mohamed Charjri
    Hassan El Mania
    Mourad Ismaïl
    Tony Librizzi
    Mohamed Ouaglou
    Omar Ouchchane
    Abderrahim Ouzlig
      • Patrick Grandperret
    • Writers
      • Pierre Boileau(novel)
      • Thomas Narcejac(novel)
      • Patrick Grandperret(adaptation and dialogue)
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      Pasando el Puente
      Performed by Camarón de la Isla (as Camaron)

      Written by J. Honge/J. Carmona

      (P) 1987 PolyGram Iberica S.A.

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    Boileau -Narcejac or the victim's detective story.
    Boileau-Narcejac's novels are deceptive:it is hard to make a truly bad film from them while being harder still to really succeed.Theirs is the victim's detective story,their permanent feature not only in the present work "les victimes" .It 's always the story of a hero being framed (generally a man) ,and what lies beneath is often "cherchez la femme" .Two directors brilliantly succeeded in adapting Boileau-Narcejac:of course Alfred Hitchcock who turned "d'entre les morts" into "vertigo" and Henri-Georges Clouzot who made "Diabolique" out of "celle qui n'était plus" .Both completely rewrote the novels and transcended them while keeping the writers' s suspense.It is proof positive that these Boileau-Narcejac novels ,which are much fun to read (I'm a fan)need something else , a good scriptwriter when transferred to the screen.And a good cast does not hurt either -see Hitchcock and Clouzot-.

    "les victimes" lacks almost everything:while it holds water on the paper it needs something else on the screen.Directing is ineffective and is almost unable to generate true fear.What 's worst is this inability to use the North Africa landscapes.Also handicapped by an undistinguished cast (whereas the two masterpieces I mention above had James Stewart,Kim Novak,Simone Signoret etc)with a wooden Jacques Dutronc as the worst of them all.

    Man (Lindon) in love with a married woman(Viard) leaves for North Africa to meet the hubby(Dutronc) -he pretends he wants to write a book about his architect work.Super!The wife is to come too.But alas,when she arrives,it's not THE woman he knows and loves.What do you suppose THAT means? We are still waiting for a third director who could do another masterpiece from a Boileau-Narcejac novel.
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      • September 11, 1996 (France)
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      • Gaumont International
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      • Gaumont Production
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    • 1 hour 34 minutes
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