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Poison Friends

Les amitiés maléfiques

France

2006

99 Min
Color
2.35:1
French
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DIR Emmanuel Bourdieu

PROD Yorick Le Saux, David Mathieu-Mahais, Mani Mortazavi

SCR Emmanuel Bourdieu, Marcia Romano

DP Yorick Le Saux

CAST Malik Zidi, Thibault Vinçon, Alexandre Steiger, Thomas Blanchard, Dominique Blanc, Natacha Régnier, Jacques Bonnaffé, Eugène Green, Françoise Gillard, Geneviève Mnich

ED Benoît Quinon

PROD DES Nicolas de Boiscuillé

MUSIC Grégoire Hetzel

SOUND Isabelle Tat, François Guillaume

Cannes (Semaine de la critique): Critics Week Grand Prize, SACD Screenwriting Award, New York, BAFICI

Synopsis

When the new college year starts, Eloi and Alexandre encounter André, the most brilliant student in the lecture theater. Fascinated by his ease and charisma, they quickly fall under his spell: André then offers them his friendship in exchange for complete loyalty to him. Lost in admiration, Eloi and Alexandre devotedly submit to this rigorous discipline – up until the day that André leaves them, claiming to have won a grant to study in the States. Suddenly abandoned, Eloi and Alexandre now have no other choice than to become adult through their own endeavors. –uniFrance

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rynmcgnns

22Jan12

Few movies dramatize the self-presentation of literary types this incisively. It's all there: the feints, faux-vatic pronouncements, strategies of ego-defense -- that and the subtle implication that Blanchotian severity is sometimes just hostility toward those for whom inspiration comes more easily. The pacing is maybe awkward and the technique slightly amateurish, but bravo for exploring this subject at all.

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Erik Gregersen

28Feb11

Not bad, but the climax comes way too soon.

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