Directed by:
Eric ValetteComposer:
Eric SampieriCast:
Gérald Laroche, Clovis Cornillac, Philippe Laudenbach, Didier Bénureau, Geoffrey Carey, Alain Bouzigues, Yves Arnault, Dimitri RataudPlots(1)
A prison cell. Four prisoners - Carrer, a young company director accused of fraud, 35 year old transsexual in the process of his transformation, Daisy, a 20-year-old mentally challenged idiot savant, and Lassalle, a 60-year-old intellectual who murdered his wife. Behind a stone slab in the cell, mysteriously pulled loose, they discovered a book: the diary of a prisoner, Danvers, who occupied the cell at the beginning of the century. The diary contains magic formulas that supposedly enable prisoners to escape...but since the discovery of the book, strange and troubling phenomenon multiply in the prison cell. (official distributor synopsis)
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I acknowledge that the core premise and the atmosphere can’t be judged other than positively, but what else does this film have? An appalling quartet of actors portraying even more appalling characters, nonsensical rules (or rather, no rules, like in almost every fantasy film, that’s why I hate the genre) and, well, that’s it. Even with that undoubtedly remarkable premise, I can’t consider Maléfique as an above-par film.
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