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L'adversaire

  • 2002
  • 12
  • 2h 9m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
4.2K
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Daniel Auteuil, Nicolas Abraham, Nadine Alari, Humbert Balsan, François Berléand, Roberto Bestazzoni, Michel Cassagne, François Cluzet, Olivier Cruveiller, Joséphine Derenne, Emmanuelle Devos, Bernard Fresson, Jean-Claude Leguay, Anne Loiret, Géraldine Pailhas, Théodul Carré-Cassaigne, Alice Fauvet, Martin Jobert, Pippa Schallier, Zoé Carré-Cassaigne, Zéphirin Carré-Cassaigne, Augustin Jacquet, Audrey Lavirotte, Aristide Renting, and Isidore Renting in L'adversaire (2002)
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True CrimeCrimeDramaMysteryThriller

When a man murders his wife, children and parents, the ensuing investigation reveals that he's been living a lie for almost 20 years.When a man murders his wife, children and parents, the ensuing investigation reveals that he's been living a lie for almost 20 years.When a man murders his wife, children and parents, the ensuing investigation reveals that he's been living a lie for almost 20 years.

  • Director
    • Nicole Garcia
  • Writers
    • Frédéric Bélier-Garcia
    • Emmanuel Carrère
    • Jacques Fieschi
  • Stars
    • Daniel Auteuil
    • Géraldine Pailhas
    • François Cluzet
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    4.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Nicole Garcia
    • Writers
      • Frédéric Bélier-Garcia
      • Emmanuel Carrère
      • Jacques Fieschi
    • Stars
      • Daniel Auteuil
      • Géraldine Pailhas
      • François Cluzet
    • 21User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 nominations total

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    Bande-Annonce [VO]
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    Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil
    • Jean-Marc Faure
    Géraldine Pailhas
    Géraldine Pailhas
    • Christine Faure
    François Cluzet
    François Cluzet
    • Luc
    Emmanuelle Devos
    Emmanuelle Devos
    • Marianne
    Alice Fauvet
    • Alice
    Martin Jobert
    • Vincent
    Michel Cassagne
    • Le père de Jean-Marc
    Joséphine Derenne
    • La mère de Jean-Marc
    Anne Loiret
    Anne Loiret
    • Cécile
    Olivier Cruveiller
    • Jean-Jacques
    Nadine Alari
    Nadine Alari
    • La mère de Christine
    Nicolas Abraham
    • Xavier
    Bernard Fresson
    Bernard Fresson
    • Le père de Christine
    François Berléand
    François Berléand
    • Rémi
    Muriel Amat
    Arié Arichi
    Humbert Balsan
    • Dr. Michel Philippot
    Marie Barronet
    • Director
      • Nicole Garcia
    • Writers
      • Frédéric Bélier-Garcia
      • Emmanuel Carrère
      • Jacques Fieschi
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    7hokeybutt

    Oh boy! Auteuil!

    THE ADVERSARY (3+ outta 5 stars)

    Chilling French suspense tale (based on a true story) of a seemingly well-to-do doctor, a husband and father, who turns out to be a complete fraud. He pretends to go to work in a prestigious medical building but all he does is loiter and kill time until he has to return home. He takes money from family and friends, pretending to invest it in foreign ventures... but he just uses their money to live on, buying his family more expensive homes and automobiles (plus a hot, young mistress for himself). But eventually people start demanding to see some returns on their investments... or want to withdraw large sums that the good "doctor" just doesn't have. So he keeps stalling and putting them off until he runs totally out of options and his whole world comes crashing down... resulting in his final, chilling actions. Terrific performance by Daniel Auteuil... who has the difficult job of trying to engender sympathy for a man who deserves none.
    searchanddestroy-1

    The liar

    This true story had already been told one year earlier, back in 2001, with L'EMPLOI DU TEMPS, a film that many viewers found less interesting than this one. Let me say that I don't agree at all. Both are outstanding films. Nicole Garcia's film and the Laurent Cantet's one. Here, Daniel Auteuil is purely awesome, but he is not alone, the whole result is engrossing, riveting, the perfect example of a flawless movie. Such a story has not been remade by the American film industry, at least as far as I know,, and that's very strange. I mean such a scheme has not been made before, but maybe I am wrong after all. A real must see. From a true story, I repeat. Chilling.
    germouse

    The life and the tragic end of a lyer and his family

    This movie is adapted from a true story, the one of Jean-Claude Roman, a man who made his family and friends believe for 18 years that he was a searcher at the OAS when he didn't even had a job. For 18 long years, he had been crooking his parents and fooling his relations till he finally got discovered. He then killed his wife, children, mother and father. Revealing the end of this story won't bother the appreciation of this movie, since it's a well known news item in France that deeply moved the population in the 90's. As a matter of fact, the story is fascinating enough to make the script interesting and that is the main problem of the film. It relies almost essentially on the unbelievable destiny of Jean-Marc Faure and the performance of Daniel Auteuil, one the best French actors actors actually. His acting is sober and at some moments is approaching madness with convincing realism. But the staging and the whole ambiance remain cold and distant as if there was since the beginning a shift between Faure and the others. This creates an embarrassment that keep us from understanding him.

    Anyway, it is worth seeing this movie, above all if you don't know the story yet. The only fact to know that this really happened makes you watch it with interest. Another movie was made upon this story, `L'emploi du temps' by Laurent Cantet.
    8xu

    A dark, sadly true story, with a masterly performance of Daniel Auteuil

    This is a tough, poignant film - as it evolves, the viewer becomes submerged in the dark universe of the main character, a man living a lie for years in front of his family and friends. Daniel Auteuil is, as usual, absolutely masterful, expressing extremely well the quiet and sombre nature of the character and the conflicts going on in his mind. Sadly a true story, it approaches us to the dark universe of a person capable of the worst to hide the truth.
    7fiozinho

    Hail Auteuil!

    The magnificent Daniel Auteuil is ... well ... magnificent once again in this study of a common man whose world turns unaccountably pear-shaped, and who is powerless to get out of the increasingly large hole he's dug for himself. The sequencing of the film is very neatly done - we know from the word 'go' that Faure has done something horrendous, we're pretty sure what it is, and we are led to find out why through a complex series of flashbacks. The art of Auteuil is in his ability to make Faure a sympathetic character, despite his many flaws and the gruesome crime he commits. The painstakingly constructed portrait of a man in torment may get painted on a little too thickly at times, but Auteuil's descent from mixed-up family-man to lethal psychopath is gripping stuff.

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    • Trivia
      Based on a true story, that of Jean-Claude Romand, who on January 9, 1993, killed his wife, two children and both his parents.
    • Goofs
      The movie takes place in 1989. In France all the cars had yellow headlights. White headlights were legalized in 1993.
    • Connections
      Features Les histoires du Père Castor (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Apprends-moi des Mots d'Amour
      Music by Cyril Assous

      Lyrics by Maurice Dulac and Jacqueline Sorano

      Performed by Maurice Dulac and Marianne Mille

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    • Release date
      • August 28, 2002 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Switzerland
      • Spain
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • The Adversary
    • Filming locations
      • Hôtel Carlton, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France(When Faure is told by his mistress he's a somber, sad man)
    • Production companies
      • Les Films Alain Sarde
      • France 3 Cinéma
      • Pauline's Angel
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,747,342
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 9m(129 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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