L'Appartement
1995
Director Gilles Mimouni's first feature film is a stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Vincent Cassel stars as Max, a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during a business trip, Max catches .. Read more
| Starring | Vincent Cassel, Romane Bohringer, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Monica Bellucci |
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| Director | Gilles Mimouni |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
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L'Appartement
Director Gilles Mimouni's first feature film is a stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Vincent Cassel stars as Max, a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during a business trip, Max catches a glimpse of the great lost love of his life, reviving his wanderlust and sending him off on a chase of the elusive Lisa, whom he had overheard suggesting to a friend that her lover, Daniel, had killed someone for her. Soon, Max is trying to unravel the mystery behind the suspicious death of Daniel's wife, which he hopes will lead him closer to Lisa. Mimouni's deft direction and impeccable visual sense, along with his many nods to Alfred Hitchcock, make this a hugely enjoyable thriller.
| Starring | Vincent Cassel, Romane Bohringer, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Monica Bellucci, Sandrine Kiberlain |
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| Director | Gilles Mimouni |
| Studio | Optimum Home Entertainment |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 52 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | French |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 20 Nov 2000 Production year: 1995 |
| Format | DVD |
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One of the most visually audacious French films of the 1990s, this intricate thriller clearly owes debts to Hitchcock and Truffaut. But debut director Gilles Mimouni isn't just a cinematic magpie, as these homages are all part of the ingenious way in which he makes us identify with Vincent Cassel's high-flying executive as he's duped into a web of deceit and desire after becoming suspicious about the reappearance of a long-vanished girlfriend. Each icon, each flashback draws him deeper into the mystery and we follow, less because we want to solve the puzzle, than because we've been spellbound by the dazzling imagery.
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A chance encounter in a Paris café puts young exec Max (Cassel) on the trail of the girl he loved and lost. He bids... read more on Time Out
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24 out of 26 people found this review helpful
Another example of French cinema at it's best...
This is without doubt, one of the finest European films of the 1990's. Vincent Cassel is on top form here as he plays Max, who becomes entranced by a beautiful woman only to become trapped in anothers web. This is a classic love story tragedy, with an brilliant plot and excellent performances from Cassel and Belluci
This is a must-see, and yet again proves the mastery of French film-making over everyone else -
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Excellent French thriller
Some thrillers are so edgy they are uncomfortable to watch, never establishing a mood that makes them pleasurable except to the masochistic. This one, while displaying the edginess requisite of a thriller, is bolstered by an assured and coherent aesthetic and humourous undertones to make a totally enjoyable film: Hitchcock fans will be able to appreciate what this means. The final wordless reel is wonderful.
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Cassel to take on crime role
- 05 Oct 2005
French actor Vincent Cassel is to appear in two new films in the role of real-life thief Jacques Mesrine. Mesrine was a renowned robber who specialised in cunning heists, elaborate disguises and womanising. Cassel's most recent role came in Ocean's Twelve, and he will again return to the shady world of crime in the films Death Instinct and Public Enemy Number One. The films are to be directed by Jean-Francois Richet, who this year made the Assault On Precinct 13 re-make, which starred Ja Rule,... Read more
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L'Appartement
Director Gilles Mimouni's first feature film is a stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Vincent Cassel stars as Max, a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during ...
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