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Un inspecteur vous demande

Original title: An Inspector Calls
  • TV Movie
  • 2015
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
17K
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David Thewlis, Miranda Richardson, Ken Stott, Chloe Pirrie, Kyle Soller, and Finn Cole in Un inspecteur vous demande (2015)
CrimeDramaMystery

A mysterious inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guest following the suicide of a young woman.A mysterious inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guest following the suicide of a young woman.A mysterious inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guest following the suicide of a young woman.

  • Director
    • Aisling Walsh
  • Writers
    • J.B. Priestley
    • Helen Edmundson
  • Stars
    • Sophie Rundle
    • Lucy Chappell
    • Miranda Richardson
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    17K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Aisling Walsh
    • Writers
      • J.B. Priestley
      • Helen Edmundson
    • Stars
      • Sophie Rundle
      • Lucy Chappell
      • Miranda Richardson
    • 134User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Sophie Rundle
    Sophie Rundle
    • Eva
    Lucy Chappell
    • Edna
    Miranda Richardson
    Miranda Richardson
    • Sybil Birling
    Ken Stott
    Ken Stott
    • Arthur Birling
    Finn Cole
    Finn Cole
    • Eric Birling
    Chloe Pirrie
    Chloe Pirrie
    • Sheila Birling
    Kyle Soller
    Kyle Soller
    • Gerald Croft
    David Thewlis
    David Thewlis
    • The Inspector
    Flora Nicholson
    Flora Nicholson
    • Miss Francis
    Gary Davis
    Gary Davis
    • Alderman Meggarty
    Wanda Opalinska
    Wanda Opalinska
    • Charity Lady
    Nigel Black
    • Gate Keeper
    • (uncredited)
    Clare Crowther
    • Posh Lady
    • (uncredited)
    Philip Gascoyne
    Philip Gascoyne
    • Millward's Shop Customer
    • (uncredited)
    Ellie Morgan Roberts
    • Young Eva
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Margaret Wheldon
    • Factory Worker
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Jerry Mark Willey
    • seaside Photographer
    • (uncredited)
    Patricia Winker
    • Factory Worker
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Aisling Walsh
    • Writers
      • J.B. Priestley
      • Helen Edmundson
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    7Lejink

    Called to account

    I have for a long time enjoyed J B Priestley's famous "time-play" having read it and seen it performed in the theatre more than once. This BBC Drama version plays it relatively safe, staying true to the era and by and large to the text. It's very well acted by its ensemble cast with David Thewlis almost ghoulish as the soft-spoken, avenging "Inspector" Goole, Ken Stott as the self-important patriarch Mr, soon-to-be Sir Birling and especially Sophie Rundle as the spirited but doomed Eva/Daisy/Alice whose fate casts a long shadow over the whole Birling family, father, mother, son, newly engaged daughter and her well-to-do fiancé Mr Croft, assembled at the Birling mansion to celebrate the engagement.

    The play is opened up just enough so as you'd notice with some external scenes but mostly, as you'd expect it's played indoors, intensifying the drama to a backdrop of hypnotic chamber music as the plot edges inevitably to its climaxes. I say climaxes because of the two big reveals that Priestley employs, firstly exposing the hypocrisy of the staid pre-Great War English society in their links to this young woman's demise and then the brilliant twist at the end just when it seems as if they've all gotten away with it.

    Some of Priestley's wider themes seem to be just that, i.e. wide of the mark, like his prediction of a bloody uprising by the downtrodden working classes, although considering the social upheaval later in the depicted decade, obviously with events abroad in Russia, Ireland and Weimar Germany to name but three, never mind the General Strike and Red Clydeside disputes of the post-War era here in Britain maybe he wasn't so far out either. It's only in the words and actions of the two youngest members of the afflicted Birlings that we see any hope of societal change in the future as we observe their conscience-stricken reaction to events, neither tainted by the jaundiced, self-motivated experience of their elders.

    The treatment of the Inspector I thought played up the fantastic element just a little too much with the extended epilogue showing him as a sort of omnipresent spirit surrounding Eva as she comes to her fateful end almost as if the director felt the need to explain his unexplained presence,which for me reduced the character's effectiveness as the pricked conscience of the group, his last appearance should really have been after he finished with the family at the house.

    Nevertheless, any production like this which respects the context of the original play as this one undoubtedly does, even if at times it creaked rather than crept along, still managed to entertain me just as it always has, as a taut, cleverly written, psychological thriller with a moral in the tale.
    10arthurlally1

    Drama at its very best

    I went into this with an open mind, as i knew it was a remake. Right from the start i was captivated by the enveloping period atmosphere and way the story weaved its story. The plot was simply superb, exposing the class divide and way that others can be mistreat their fellow man, without any conscious or care for the consequences. The lessons in humanity ring as true today as they did in that period so its still highly relevant and should provoke some internalising. However putting that all to one side the acting was simply top drawer and David Thewliss contribution was truly spellbinding. He was so commanding throughout and more than a match for the wealthy opposition he encountered that night. This was so good that i actually watched it three times back to back, as every scene was so immersive and tense. So if you like good drama you would be hard pressed to beat this and all the more amazing was the fact it was mostly delivered in a drawing room, so that speaks volumes for the way it was acted. So I hope you enjoy this period piece as much as i did
    8l_rawjalaurence

    Somber Version of the Priestley Classic

    Aisling Walsh's telefilm of the Priestley classic, first performed at London's Old Vic Theatre in 1945, opens out the action somewhat. It begins with a shot of Eva Smith (Lucy Rundle) writing in her diary in a lonely room, followed by a shot of some wooden floorboards, and two or three establishing shots of the Birling factory with a 1912 car moving out of the gates. Through this brief sequence we are given a clear idea of the class-differences permeating the film between the haves and the have-nots, the exploiters and the exploited, that forms one of Priestley's major themes.

    Eva Smith does not appear in the Priestley text; in this version she is transformed into a hard-working girl who is not backward about coming forward. Hence she becomes an object of affection for factory-owner Arthur Birling (Ken Stott), his son Eric (Finn Cole), and Gerald Croft (Kyle Soller), the son of a rival factory-owner who is due to be affianced to Arthur's daughter Sheila (Chloe Pirrie). Yet it soon becomes clear that all of them treat her as an object to be picked up and cast aside at will; it's a tribute to Eva's strength of character that she manages to sustain her integrity throughout, until she gives up the ghost and commits suicide.

    At the end of the film the floorboards shot is explained, as Eva describes herself as "a crack in the floorboards" - a member of the underclass who is allowed to fall through in a crassly unequal society. No one, it seems, is willing to treat her on her own terms as a human being.

    Walsh's version also represents the Inspector (David Thewlis) as a mysterious figure moving slowly in the darkness towards the Birling residence, walking along a narrow slum in shadow, his bowler hat and long coat silhouetted, and visiting the dying Eva in hospital. We are left unsure as to whether he exists at all - especially at the end when he mysteriously disappears. But the question of his being isn't really important: what matters more is his ability to uncover the truth about the Birling family through patient, insistent questioning. Thewlis's expression remains impassive throughout - even if he despises the Birlings' superciliousness, he will never let his emotions get the better of him.

    In the central moments of the drama, as the truth about the family was gradually revealed, Walsh used repeated close-ups to focus on the protagonists' changing expressions: Arthur's look of quiet confidence was transformed into an expression of utter despair as he ran his hands through his hair; his wife Sheila (Miranda Richardson) tried her best to retain an impassive exterior, but the tell-tale movements of her cheek and neck-bones betrayed her emotions. Her stoicism in the face of the inevitable truth-revelation was contrasted with Eric's expressions - at first he looked guiltily at everyone in full knowledge that he had been in some way responsible for Eva's death, but as the drama unfolded he acquired a strength of character as he tried to come to terms with his past.

    Brilliantly performed and suggestively directed; this was a thoroughly televisual version of the play that reminded us of the persistence of social inequalities today.
    9marmstrong-84215

    Enjoyed the entire thing

    I loved the entire play. The thought of the play was amazing. I loved how the music blended so perfectly with the feelings of the characters and how the lighting always matched the mood. The producers kept you going with the entire thing and knew when to go to a another scene, which they executed it quite beautifully. The camera angles were great, the over the shoulder angles kept a kind of sense that this person was disgusted with them (mainly the Inspector). Also, the actors were a perfect fit. I adored Finn Cole, he was such a perfect fit to play Eric Birling. He provoked such feeling in the character and he just suited the role perfectly. But, all the actors were a perfect fit for their roles. Overall, thee play was phenomenal.
    8frankde-jong

    An adaptation of a play by J.B. Priestley that has aged very well

    Believing that the original 1954 version of Guy Hamilton was on TV I actually watched the 2015 BBC version of Aisling Walsh. Aisling Walsh is an Irish director who has done much work for TV (in 2012 she also made a "Room at the top" remake for the BBC), but with "Maudie" (2016) she also made a feature film for theatrical release.

    I can't compare (as yet) with the original version, but the 2015 version is very well, with good period atmosphere.

    "An inspector calls" is based on the play of the same name by J.B. Priestley (1945). Earlier Priestleys novel "Benighted" (1927) had been adapted by James Whale into the movie "The old dark house" (1932). Both novel and play are comments on the English class society.

    The story of "An inspector calls" is about the suicide of a working class girl. During an interrogation by the mysterious inspector Goole (being a group interrogation, this gives the play / film a very Agatha Christie like flavor) it turns out that all of the members of a wealthy family have contributed in one way or another to this suicide.

    The story has aged very well. I would like to call attention to a couple of things in particular.

    In the beginning of the film the father of the wealthy famlily says "It is not important where you start in life, it is important where you finish". The old American dream phrased differently. His own family is the living proof of the fact that it does matter where you start in life.

    Inspector Goole is very mysterious. He seems to be omniscient, interrogating to force a confession and not to learn more himself. He makes a very moralistic farewell speech, in which he says there are thousands of people like the poor working class girl in the story. It is obvious that he is not an ordinary police inspector. It is for the spectator to decide who or what he really is.

    The members of the family ar all guilty of the suicide of the girl. There guilt is however ethical and not legal. It is disenchanting to see how quickly some members of the family recuperate when they become aware of this distinction.

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    • Trivia
      The original play was produced twice on Broadway over a 50-year period of time. The second production earned multiple awards, including Best Revival of a play, and best featured actress for Jane Adams. The revival production also earned awards for creative set design, which featured all adult actors moving around on an oversized doll house sized set, and the actors were unable to actually enter or move around within the rooms of the house.
    • Goofs
      Gerald leaves the room after Sheila has given him back her engagement ring, but the next time she appears, she still has the engagement ring on her finger.
    • Quotes

      The Inspector: There are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives in what we think and say and do. We don't live alone upon this earth. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And if mankind will not learn that lesson, then the time will, soon, when he will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

    • Connections
      Remake of Un inspecteur vous demande (1954)

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    • Release date
      • September 13, 2015 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Drama Republic (United Kingdom)
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • An Inspector Calls
    • Filming locations
      • Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK(Birling Mill)
    • Production companies
      • Drama Republic
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 27m(87 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 16:9 HD

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