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Une femme de confiance

Titre original : Appropriate Adult
  • Mini-série télévisée
  • 2011
  • 1h 7min
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Emily Watson and Dominic West in Une femme de confiance (2011)
Appropriate Adult
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Crime véritableCriminalitéDrameMystère

Dramatisation du cas des tueurs en série Fred et Rose West.Dramatisation du cas des tueurs en série Fred et Rose West.Dramatisation du cas des tueurs en série Fred et Rose West.

  • Casting principal
    • Emily Watson
    • Dominic West
    • Robert Glenister
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  • NOTE IMDb
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    • Casting principal
      • Emily Watson
      • Dominic West
      • Robert Glenister
    • 28avis d'utilisateurs
    • 10avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Victoire aux 4 BAFTA Awards
      • 12 victoires et 20 nominations au total

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    Emily Watson
    Emily Watson
    • Janet Leach
    • 2011
    Dominic West
    Dominic West
    • Fred West
    • 2011
    Robert Glenister
    Robert Glenister
    • DSU John Bennett
    • 2011
    Sylvestra Le Touzel
    Sylvestra Le Touzel
    • DC Hazel Savage
    • 2011
    Monica Dolan
    Monica Dolan
    • Rosemary West
    • 2011
    Anthony Flanagan
    Anthony Flanagan
    • Mike
    • 2011
    Samuel Roukin
    Samuel Roukin
    • DC Darren Law…
    • 2011
    Gerard Horan
    Gerard Horan
    • Howard Ogden
    • 2011
    Selin Hizli
    Selin Hizli
    • Mae West
    • 2011
    James McArdle
    James McArdle
    • Stephen West
    • 2011
    Rupert Simonian
    • Josh
    • 2011
    Sophie Downham
    • Jade
    • 2011
    Paula Williamson
    • Kirsty Stephens
    • 2011
    Andonis Anthony
    Andonis Anthony
    • Male Journalist
    • 2011
    Heather Tobias
    • Ruth
    • 2011
    Steve Scott
    Steve Scott
    • Self
    • 2011
    Richard Calder
    Richard Calder
    • Detective Constable
    • 2011
    Stanley Townsend
    Stanley Townsend
    • Syd Young
    • 2011
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    10gradyharp

    A Searingly Powerful Film

    APPROPRIATE ADULT may not be available on USA Format DVD as yet, but for those interested in seeing this remarkable achievement in filmmaking, it is viewable now on Sundance Channel. Watch for it. APPROPRIATE ADULT is one of the few films that relates the true story of a serial killer without resorting to forcing the audience to watch reenactments of the murders. Instead the writer, director and actors bring this savage bit of history to the screen solely through a serious of interview conducted with the killer in the presence of the British police and an 'Appropriate Adult' - one who has been trained to help the accused by detecting if the accused has learning difficulties or other encumbrances that might make the interviews invalid.

    First a bit of fact: 'Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941[1] - 1 January 1995), was a British serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple's homes. The majority of the murders occurred between May 1973 and September 1979 at their home in Gloucester. Rosemary West also murdered Fred's stepdaughter (his first wife's biological daughter) Charmaine, while he was serving a prison sentence for theft. During this time they resided at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. The house was demolished in 1996 and was converted into a landscaped footpath connecting Cromwell Street to St. Michaels Square.' It is now believed that West was responsible for 20 other similarly executed murders. The film focuses on the Appropriate Adult Janet Leach (Emily Watson in an Oscar worthy performance), a trainee social worker who is asked by Gloucester police to sit in on the interrogations of Frederick West (played with extraordinary skill by Dominic West). West is a sociopath whose past of preying on women comes from the animal magnetism he owns, a factor which is strong enough to keep Janet on the case a Fred's assigned 'helper'. Janet lives with Mike (Anthony Flanagan) who is a bipolar victim and with whom Janet has three children. The tightrope of psychological stability for Janet is threatened by her hearing all the grisly details of the murders as well as facing a home where Mike stop his lithium and must be psychiatrically hospitalized. Janet is repulsed by what Fred unwinds and decides she cannot manage to remain the appropriate adult, but Fred sees her as his only friend and promises here that if she stays on the case he will tell her the truth about everything. The interviews are held in the presence of Detective Constable Hazel Savage (Sylvestra Le Tousel), Detective Superintendent John Bennett (Robert Glenister), West's assigned solicitor Howard Ogden (Gerald Horan) and Janet. There are moments when Fred tells Janet details he hasn't shared with the police, but because of her assigned role as appropriate adult she must hold these conversations with the murderer in confidence. There are times when the interrogation group accompanies Fred to his home to find the bodies buried in his garden and cellar, but these breaks are few and outside of the visits to Janet's home and to the hospital while Mike is institutionalized the film is claustrophobically viewed in the dank interrogation room. Once the interrogation is complete and hearings begin, Fred pleads with Janet to visit him in prison to share all the details of his life. The manner in which their relationship comes to an end is shocking but allows Janet to return to her home life with Mike and her three children: the paparazzi finally leave Janet alone.

    The story was written for the screen by Neil McKay and directed by Julian Jarrod. The film is approximately 2 1/2 hours in length, but the story is so fascinating and the acting is so incredibly fine on the part of everyone in this cast that the film itself feels short. Dominic West and Emily Watson are absolutely extraordinary in this film. With the quality of their performances it is doubtful the movie would have the enormous impact that it has.

    Grady Harp
    paul2001sw-1

    Dominic West's best performance yet

    Serial killers are thankfully rare, and almost by definition not normal. But Fred West was particularly peculiar, and is brilliantly captured here by Dominic West in the television drama 'Appropriate Adult'. The drama tells the story from the perspective of a woman (Janet Leach) who acted as a lay adviser to West during his interrogations; it's a way of avoiding the grizzly schlock inherent in the subject matter, although it also removes much of the dramatic potential - Leach had an ordeal in the witness box, owing to her contact with a national newspaper, but fundamentally did not have so much at stake as the Wests themselves, or the families of their victims. But if not that dramatic, the story is certainly compelling. Gordon Burn wrote a book on the case called 'Happy Like Murderers'; the appropriateness of this bizarre title is conveyed here as well. If it hadn't really happened, you couldn't have made it up. The grimmest truth is that there may still be further bodies out there
    truecrimeallthetime

    Excellent dramatisation

    Excellent dramatisation of this deeply disturbing case. Respectfully done with classy performances and simple but effective direction. Seriously gripping.
    Dethcharm

    Digging Up The Past...

    APPROPRIATE ADULT is a superior, true crime drama. Fans of those masterful UK cop shows (i.e.: PRIME SUSPECT, A TOUCH OF FROST, REBUS, WIRE IN THE BLOOD, etc.) will not be disappointed.

    Emily Watson is wonderful as the dedicated Janet Leach, and Dominic West lives his role as the oddly sympathetic serial-killer, Frederic West. The relationship between Leach and West is reminiscent of the cat and mouse game between Starling and Lecter in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

    Monica Dolan is incredibly terrifying as West's sadistic wife Rosemary. She's truly wicked, with facial expressions and stares that do far more than mere words to instill fear.

    Highly recommended...
    9LeeRoss1

    Perhaps Emily Watson's Finest Performance

    Emily Watson, one of the great actors of our time, gives a superb performance as Janet Leach that may well be the finest work she has ever done. She is nothing less than hypnotic here as she lays bare the soul of a vulnerable woman who is involved in an experience she is completely unprepared for. While the portrait of Leach is profound and an incredible achievement, Watson doesn't get in our faces with her ACTING because she is almost invisible as she disappears into the character. What a truly memorable, stunning performance this is. The entire cast is excellent, as are all elements of the production, including writing and direction. However, it is Emily Watson who elevates this film to an artistic level of depth and realism that makes it totally riveting. There is no attempt by Watson to draw attention to herself and "steal" the film. "Gosford Park" is another example of how she shines in an ensemble piece and it naturally becomes her showcase. Her style is not flashy enough and far too superbly subtle to win Oscars. There isn't the teeth gnashing PERFORMANCE style of a Charlize Theron in "Monster", the sort of Halle Berry one-shot fluke that brings home the gold. Watson is an artist in the truest sense and it's her work alone that is her reward. In this film, what she does is so extraordinary, even for her, that perhaps the praise of critics will this time cause award committees and voters to take note of an actor they have too long overlooked because she never yells "look at me!" At any rate, reward yourself by watching an excellent film with an outstanding actress at her best, as usual.

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    • Anecdotes
      The Wests' former house at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, England, was demolished in 1996, two years after the Wests were arrested. The exterior of the Cromwell Street house was recreated using an abandoned building in Cardiff Street, itself on an abandoned street slated for demolition at the time, in Higher Broughton, a suburb of Salford, part of the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. A second house that looms large in the Wests' story, 25 Midland Road, still stands, and its exterior is featured in the mini-series.
    • Crédits fous
      Disclaimer in opening titles: "This is a true story. What follows is based on extensive research, interviews and published accounts. Some scenes have been created for the purposes of dramatisation."
    • Connexions
      Featured in The Wright Stuff: Épisode #16.15 (2011)

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    • Date de sortie
      • 4 septembre 2011 (Royaume-Uni)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Site officiel
      • ITV (United Kingdom)
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Appropriate Adult
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(on location)
    • Société de production
      • ITV - Independent Television
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