Английская Википедия:Abuse of Weakness
Abuse of Weakness (Шаблон:Lang-fr) is a 2013 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Catherine Breillat. The film had its world premiere on 6 September 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival.[1] In the United States, the film was acquired by Strand Releasing and given a release in December 2014.[2]
Plot
Maud Shainberg suffers a cerebral hemorrhage that leaves her paralysed on one half of her body. After a year of intense therapy Maud, a director, begins to work on a new project. After seeing an interview with a con-man, Vilko Piran, she immediately asks him to star as the lead in her film, about a lower-class man who falls in love with a famous actress, eventually beating her to death. Vilko accepts but insists that he see Maud as much as possible before filming begins.
Cast
- Isabelle Huppert as Maud Schoenberg
- Kool Shen as Vilko Piran
- Laurence Ursino as Andy
- Christophe Sermet as Ezzé
- Ronald Leclercq as Gino
- Fred Lebelge as TV presenter
- Tristan Schotte as Antoine
- Daphné Baiwir as Hortense
- Dimitri Tomsej as Louis
- Nicolas Steil as Louis' father
- Jean-François Lepetit as Jean-Paul
Production
In 2007, Breillat met notorious conman Christophe Rocancourt, and offered him a leading role in a film that she was planning to make, based on her own novel Bad Love, and starring Naomi Campbell.[3] Soon after, she gave him €25,000 to write a screenplay titled La vie amoureuse de Christophe Rocancourt (The Love Life of Christophe Rocancourt), and over the next year and a half, would give him loans totalling an additional €678,000.[4] In 2009, a book written by Breillat was published, in which she alleged that Rocancourt had taken advantage of her diminished mental capacity, as she was still recovering from her stroke.[5] The book was entitled Abus de faiblesse, a French legal term usually translated as "abuse of weakness" and was the basis for the movie of the same title.[6]
Reception
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 85%, based on 34 reviews, with an average score of 6.7/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Abuse of WeaknessШаблон:'- fact-based plot proves that truth can be stranger than fiction – and provide grist for compelling character studies."[7] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 77, based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]
References
External links
- Английская Википедия
- 2013 films
- 2013 drama films
- 2010s French-language films
- Belgian drama films
- Drama films based on actual events
- Films about con artists
- Films about filmmaking
- Films directed by Catherine Breillat
- Films shot in Brussels
- French-language Belgian films
- French drama films
- French films based on actual events
- German drama films
- German films based on actual events
- 2010s French films
- 2010s German films
- Страницы, где используется шаблон "Навигационная таблица/Телепорт"
- Страницы с телепортом
- Википедия
- Статья из Википедии
- Статья из Английской Википедии
