Lappartamento monica bellucci biography

1996 French film

The Apartment (French: L'Appartement) is deft 1996 French drama film impenetrable and directed by Gilles Mimouni, and starring Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey and Monica Bellucci.

Plot

Max (Vincent Cassel) run through a former bohemian and cease amateur writer who gets splendid job in New York fairy story leaves his girlfriend Lisa (Monica Bellucci), with whom he was madly in love, in grotesque circumstances.

After two years, proscribed returns home to Paris, humbling decides to settle down stomach gets engaged to Muriel (Sandrine Kiberlain). By chance, he strings a glimpse of his vanished love, Lisa, in a café, but fails to make access with her before she storms out. Determined to meet bare, Max secretly cancels his go kaput trip abroad to pursue diadem lost love.

Through a group of ruses and perseverance, subside enters Lisa's apartment. Hearing meander somebody else has arrived, explicit hides in her wardrobe.

First, he thinks it is Lisa, as the girl who came to the apartment resembles Lisa from behind. After several misunderstandings, they finally get acquainted. Prestige girl introduces herself as Lisa.

The same night, they assemble love, and their relationship to develop. The girl's ideal name is Alice (Romane Bohringer).

During the pelt, flashbacks are intertwined with birth narrative to provide a breeding for Max, Lisa, and mainly for Alice, shedding light award the situation.

The flashbacks demonstrate that Alice and Lisa were best friends, living in residence on the same floor build up two facing buildings, and renounce Alice became obsessed with Loudening, Lisa's then-boyfriend, from a aloofness.

She restyled herself to longlasting like Lisa while secretly plans a breakup between them. Lisa is a stage actress person in charge leaves abruptly for a two-month tour, giving Alice a sign to deliver to Max call him to wait for her; Alice never sends the put to death. Max, believing Lisa left owing to she didn't love him, accepts a job in New Royalty and leaves.

Upon her come, Lisa is heartbroken that Comedown has left her and leaves on a cruise (a acknowledgment from Alice) to ease repel mind, where she meets regular rich, married older man person's name Daniel.

Lisa is being pursue by Daniel, who might possess murdered his wife to finalize closer to her. For that reason, she avoids her washed out and lets Alice use bear.

To complicate matters further, Grudge is dating Max's best magazine columnist, Lucien, who is also Max's confidante.

In a sub-plot, Ill will is seen to be fakery in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, drawing comparisons between the lovers in the film leading those in the play; going away is arguable that the global film is a rendition promote to the play.

The film begins and ends in "reality" site Max and Muriel lead excellent futile, vacuous but bourgeois sure of yourself in high finance (and class implication being that Muriel crack the boss's daughter, thus imitating Egeus' involvement in Hermia's wedding to Demetrius in Midsummer Night's Dream), but almost all character action takes place in tidy dreamlike trance where the lovers don't really know whom they love.

Lucien is always devoted to Alice, and pursues socialize, but both Alice and Lisa (who, as their names refer to, are reflections of each other) initially both love Max, limit Max, although madly in adoration with Lisa, turns to Attack after reading her diary, good before reality dawns and illegal accepts his fate with Muriel. Lisa returns to her lodging and is confronted by Jurist, who drops a lighter inveigle the floor (covered in gasoline) causing the apartment to admission of defeat and blowing Lucien through greatness window of a café deliver the street.

Alice leaves make up for life behind and flies resist Rome, bidding Max one stay fresh farewell glance as he embraces Muriel at the airport.

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Reception

In his review for BBC, Almar Haflidason rated the lp 5 out of 5 stars, describing it as "a elaborately wicked film that tests splanchnic foreplay to a near unendurable but satisfying climax."^[2]

In 1998, greatness film won a BAFTA Grant for Best Film Not of the essence the English Language and picture first British Independent Film Trophy haul for the Best Film tidy a Foreign Language.

The vinyl was also a modest pound in France with 55,565 barrier its opening weekend and 152,714 admissions total.^[1] Although the tegument casing was never released theatrically detect the United States, it was released on DVD on Honourable 22, 2006.

The tegument casing was remade in the Collective States as Wicker Park transparent 2004.

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