The Adversary

L'adversaire

Switzerland, Spain, France

2002

129 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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SCR Frédéric Bélier-Garcia, Jacques Fieschi, Nicole Garcia, Emmanuel Carrère

CAST Daniel Auteuil, Géraldine Pailhas, François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Alice Fauvet, Martin Jobert, Michel Cassagne, Joséphine Derenne, Anne Loiret, François Berléand, Humbert Balsan

On January 9th 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children and his parents. Then he tried to kill himself, unsuccessfully. Investigations proved that he had never been a doctor as he had claimed for 18 years, and – still harder to believe – he hadn’t been anything else either. When he was on the brink of being found out, he chose to eliminate all the people whose opinion of him was more than he could bear. –Cannes Film Festival

Director

Nicole Garcia

Nicole Garcia started her career in the theatre in 1967: she appeared in Les caprices de Marianne, Suréna and Oncle Vania, after studying philosophy and then drama at the Centre Dramatique de la rue Blanche and the Conservatoire national d’art dramatique. She has acted in over thirty films since 1976, with directors such as Bertrand Tavernier Que la Fête commence (1974), Henri Verneuil Le Corps de mon ennemi (1976), Laurent Heynemann La Question (1977), Philippe de Broca Le Cavaleur (1978), Alain Resnais Mon Oncle d’Amérique (1979), Claude Lelouch Les Uns et les Autres (1980), Pierre Schoendoerffer L’Honneur d’un capitaine (1982), José Pinheiro Les Mots pour le dire (1983), Claude Sautet Garçon (1983), Michel Deville Péril en la demeure (1984), Brigitte Rouan Outremer (1989), Sam Karmann Kennedy et moi (1999), Philippe Harel Tristan (2002), Claude Miller La Petite Lili (2003). She went back to the theatre with Deux sur la balançoire in 1985, Partage de Midi in 1990, and Scènes de la… read more