Stars: Charley Palmer Rothwell, Roxane Mesquida, Hippolyte de Poucques, Daphné Huynh, Thomas Mustin, Marie Zabukovec, Laetitia Chambon, Helena Chambon | Written by Jacques Kluger, Amiel Bartana | Directed by Jacques Kluger
Welcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die.
Play or Die follows Lucas (Charley Palmer Rothwell) and Chloe (Roxane Mesquida) who – after some serious persuasion by Chloe – decide to participate in Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, lost in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting on them; participants who, after only a couple of rooms into their “adventure,” all soon realize that only one of them will get out of there alive…
Now you’d be forgiven for thinking that Play or Die was inspired by the likes...
Welcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die.
Play or Die follows Lucas (Charley Palmer Rothwell) and Chloe (Roxane Mesquida) who – after some serious persuasion by Chloe – decide to participate in Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, lost in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting on them; participants who, after only a couple of rooms into their “adventure,” all soon realize that only one of them will get out of there alive…
Now you’d be forgiven for thinking that Play or Die was inspired by the likes...
- 7/3/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
City of Neon Lights: Marie’s Debut a Soundtrack Assisted Cliché
How the title Paris Countdown was decided upon to stand as the English language translation of Le Jour Attendre (Day Wait) is the first of many unnecessary questions to ask while watching Edgar Marie’s directorial debut, a revenge thriller meant to be a pulse pounding high octane endeavor, filled with car chases, violent showdowns, double crossings, vaguely relayed female characters in distress, and a thumping soundtrack.
Milan (Olivier Marchal) and Victor (Jacques Gamblin) are best friends and co-owners of a Parisian nightclub, Le Sound. Unfortunately, they’re in considerable debt, and Milan gets them involved in a drug trafficking transaction that gets horribly botched in Mexico. Tortured, they agree to squeal against their liaison, Serki (Carlo Brandt), who gets sentenced to six years in prison. Upset and traumatized, Victor vows never to speak with Milan again. Unfortunately, Serki is unfathomably psychotic,...
How the title Paris Countdown was decided upon to stand as the English language translation of Le Jour Attendre (Day Wait) is the first of many unnecessary questions to ask while watching Edgar Marie’s directorial debut, a revenge thriller meant to be a pulse pounding high octane endeavor, filled with car chases, violent showdowns, double crossings, vaguely relayed female characters in distress, and a thumping soundtrack.
Milan (Olivier Marchal) and Victor (Jacques Gamblin) are best friends and co-owners of a Parisian nightclub, Le Sound. Unfortunately, they’re in considerable debt, and Milan gets them involved in a drug trafficking transaction that gets horribly botched in Mexico. Tortured, they agree to squeal against their liaison, Serki (Carlo Brandt), who gets sentenced to six years in prison. Upset and traumatized, Victor vows never to speak with Milan again. Unfortunately, Serki is unfathomably psychotic,...
- 11/12/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
- Foreign Spotlight: Memory of a Killer A young girl prostituted by her own father, an aging hitman with Alzheimer, a sexually charged widow, a corrupt Baron and two diverse detectives all clash heads in the vicious, cold blooded thriller Memory of Killer. Containing a little Belgium twist, this is definitely Flemish director Erik Van Looy’s homage to the American thriller with an extra effort to gain popularity beyond his national audience. Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir) is the aging hitman forced to write down everything of importance on his arms due to his battle with Alzheimer. But unlike Memento, he uses a marker that can easily be wiped clean to leave no trace. Against his own judgment he takes on a mission that eventually leads him into the world of pedophilia. Ledda, a hitman with a heart of gold, grows a conscience and falls out of love with murder,
- 8/25/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Yvan Le Moine's intellectual fable Friday or Another Day is a variation of the Robinson Crusoe story in which the castaway is not a civilized man eager to impart his cultivation to an ignorant savage but rather a chaotically imaginative romantic whose descent into madness is prevented by the wisdom of an innocent man.
Philippe Graff's art direction, Danny Elsen's photography and Philippe Nahon's amazing lead performance all add to the appeal of a remarkable film that should generate considerable art house response.
Friday -- which screened in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival -- was adapted from Michel Tournier's novel "Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique" and tells the story of Philippe de Nohan, a 50ish actor with the Comedie Francaise whose far-flung tour is cut short by the sinking of their ship somewhere off Chile.
Nohan alone survives and is able to salvage some food and supplies from the ship, which lies wrecked upon the rocks of a deserted island. Skilled as a carpenter from his theatrical life, Nohan is able to make a shelter that becomes increasingly baroque as he fashions bits and pieces to help remind him of home.
Nohan dreams of his golden childhood and successful career, and these scenes are shot in brilliant color. They contrast mightily with the island sequences that are bleached of color so that the craggy promontory and Nahon's magnificent physiognomy come to match.
Things change when Nahon frees a native from a band of cannibals who have rowed to the island for their exotic ceremonies. The young man (Alain Moraida), whom he names Friday, becomes his servant as Nahon tries to impose the structure of French society on his island population of three. There also is the ship's dog, Tenn, whom Nahon treats as an equal.
Le Moine is less interested in depicting Nahon's time on the island as an adventure than he is in exploring the impact of isolation on the man's intellect and how his sense of civilization reacts to the overpowering force of nature. It is a powerful treatment of a familiar story.
Philippe Graff's art direction, Danny Elsen's photography and Philippe Nahon's amazing lead performance all add to the appeal of a remarkable film that should generate considerable art house response.
Friday -- which screened in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival -- was adapted from Michel Tournier's novel "Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique" and tells the story of Philippe de Nohan, a 50ish actor with the Comedie Francaise whose far-flung tour is cut short by the sinking of their ship somewhere off Chile.
Nohan alone survives and is able to salvage some food and supplies from the ship, which lies wrecked upon the rocks of a deserted island. Skilled as a carpenter from his theatrical life, Nohan is able to make a shelter that becomes increasingly baroque as he fashions bits and pieces to help remind him of home.
Nohan dreams of his golden childhood and successful career, and these scenes are shot in brilliant color. They contrast mightily with the island sequences that are bleached of color so that the craggy promontory and Nahon's magnificent physiognomy come to match.
Things change when Nahon frees a native from a band of cannibals who have rowed to the island for their exotic ceremonies. The young man (Alain Moraida), whom he names Friday, becomes his servant as Nahon tries to impose the structure of French society on his island population of three. There also is the ship's dog, Tenn, whom Nahon treats as an equal.
Le Moine is less interested in depicting Nahon's time on the island as an adventure than he is in exploring the impact of isolation on the man's intellect and how his sense of civilization reacts to the overpowering force of nature. It is a powerful treatment of a familiar story.
- 8/13/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Yvan Le Moine's intellectual fable Friday or Another Day is a variation of the Robinson Crusoe story in which the castaway is not a civilized man eager to impart his cultivation to an ignorant savage but rather a chaotically imaginative romantic whose descent into madness is prevented by the wisdom of an innocent man.
Philippe Graff's art direction, Danny Elsen's photography and Philippe Nahon's amazing lead performance all add to the appeal of a remarkable film that should generate considerable art house response.
Friday -- which screened in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival -- was adapted from Michel Tournier's novel "Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique" and tells the story of Philippe de Nohan, a 50ish actor with the Comedie Francaise whose far-flung tour is cut short by the sinking of their ship somewhere off Chile.
Nohan alone survives and is able to salvage some food and supplies from the ship, which lies wrecked upon the rocks of a deserted island. Skilled as a carpenter from his theatrical life, Nohan is able to make a shelter that becomes increasingly baroque as he fashions bits and pieces to help remind him of home.
Nohan dreams of his golden childhood and successful career, and these scenes are shot in brilliant color. They contrast mightily with the island sequences that are bleached of color so that the craggy promontory and Nahon's magnificent physiognomy come to match.
Things change when Nahon frees a native from a band of cannibals who have rowed to the island for their exotic ceremonies. The young man (Alain Moraida), whom he names Friday, becomes his servant as Nahon tries to impose the structure of French society on his island population of three. There also is the ship's dog, Tenn, whom Nahon treats as an equal.
Le Moine is less interested in depicting Nahon's time on the island as an adventure than he is in exploring the impact of isolation on the man's intellect and how his sense of civilization reacts to the overpowering force of nature. It is a powerful treatment of a familiar story.
Philippe Graff's art direction, Danny Elsen's photography and Philippe Nahon's amazing lead performance all add to the appeal of a remarkable film that should generate considerable art house response.
Friday -- which screened in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival -- was adapted from Michel Tournier's novel "Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique" and tells the story of Philippe de Nohan, a 50ish actor with the Comedie Francaise whose far-flung tour is cut short by the sinking of their ship somewhere off Chile.
Nohan alone survives and is able to salvage some food and supplies from the ship, which lies wrecked upon the rocks of a deserted island. Skilled as a carpenter from his theatrical life, Nohan is able to make a shelter that becomes increasingly baroque as he fashions bits and pieces to help remind him of home.
Nohan dreams of his golden childhood and successful career, and these scenes are shot in brilliant color. They contrast mightily with the island sequences that are bleached of color so that the craggy promontory and Nahon's magnificent physiognomy come to match.
Things change when Nahon frees a native from a band of cannibals who have rowed to the island for their exotic ceremonies. The young man (Alain Moraida), whom he names Friday, becomes his servant as Nahon tries to impose the structure of French society on his island population of three. There also is the ship's dog, Tenn, whom Nahon treats as an equal.
Le Moine is less interested in depicting Nahon's time on the island as an adventure than he is in exploring the impact of isolation on the man's intellect and how his sense of civilization reacts to the overpowering force of nature. It is a powerful treatment of a familiar story.
- 8/12/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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