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Paid

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 40m
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4.5/10
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Paid (2006)
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Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a d... Read allPaid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-ye... Read allPaid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hea... Read all

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    • Laurence Lamers
  • Writer
    • Laurence Lamers
  • Stars
    • Anne Charrier
    • Murilo Benício
    • Tom Conti
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.5/10
    147
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    • Director
      • Laurence Lamers
    • Writer
      • Laurence Lamers
    • Stars
      • Anne Charrier
      • Murilo Benício
      • Tom Conti
    • 2User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Anne Charrier
    Anne Charrier
    • Paula
    Murilo Benício
    Murilo Benício
    • Michel
    Tom Conti
    Tom Conti
    • Rudi
    Guy Marchand
    Guy Marchand
    • Giuseppe
    Corbin Bernsen
    Corbin Bernsen
    • William Montague
    Beppe Chierici
    Beppe Chierici
    • Max
    Marie-France Pisier
    Marie-France Pisier
    • Gislaine
    Tygo Gernandt
    Tygo Gernandt
    • Bennie
    Hajo Bruins
    • Andre
    Fendi van Brederode
    • Luis
    Ana Lúcia Torre
    Ana Lúcia Torre
    • Empregada
    Sanne Wetselaar
    • Antoinetta
    Helmert Woudenberg
    Helmert Woudenberg
    • Cor
    Manouk van der Meulen
    Manouk van der Meulen
    • Anna
    Iwan Walhain
    • Miquel
    Marguerite de Brauw
    • Marianna
    Peggy Jane de Schepper
    • Nancy
    Samir Nijenhuis
    • Young Michel
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      • Laurence Lamers
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      • Laurence Lamers
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    9salussoglia

    Excellent movie, which proves itself with the better crime movies

    This is an excellent movies, which tells it story through it's images, with the music and the excellent performances of the actors. It seems as a cliché film, but it is not. If you look carefully -I saw the film two times- you see the subtitle acting from carefully casted actors. Tom Conti is giving away one of his best performances since a long time. Guy Marchand is playing marvelous. Anne Charrier is the new discovery in France. And there is this Dutch actor playing Bennie, which I find terrific. Not forgetting the beautiful score of Jaques Morelenbaum, which gives together with the lighting a warm feel into this harsh story of criminals. Murilo Benicio, our Brazilian proud, makes of a harsh killer a man with a heart, which takes the movie above many other crime movies.
    jm10701

    good acting (Murilo Benício great as always, and still gorgeous), but awful screenplay

    If acting were all, this would be a great movie. Every performance by the large international cast is excellent. Unfortunately, movies also have writers and directors - in this case Dutch writer-director Laurence Lamers.

    He chose to make this movie - about gangsters in Amsterdam - entirely in English, which may be part of the problem, since the dialog often sounds like it came from a John Wayne or Edward G Robinson movie. Tom Conti - one of only two native English-speakers in the cast (Corbin Bernsen is the other) is credited with "Additional Dialog Corrections", which may explain why his dialog was mostly free of such peculiarities; but the unfortunate French, Brazilian, German, Dutch, etc, cast members didn't have that native understanding of the language to help them with their dialog (Bernsen seems not to have cared, because his is just as bad), and they're the ones who more often sound like characters caught in a Star Trek space/time warp.

    But dialog isn't the only flaw - the story has serious problems of its own that can't be blamed on Lamers's unfamiliarity with English. It's interesting to have violent gangsters behave in unconventional ways (and Conti is an interesting and unusual villain), but there are limits to which credulity can be stretched. That a little Bolivian boy with no noticeable charm and no connection to any other character, without saying a word except his name - Luis - would simply by his presence totally upend the lives of a dozen or so hardened criminals is just too much. That's not the only glaring incongruity, but it's the biggest.

    So Paid is worth watching for the good acting and the sometimes interesting oddity of casting a French actor as an Italian who speaks English and sings in Spanish, a Brazilian actor as a Frenchman, etc (all speaking their various versions of English) - and for oddballs like me who saw Murilo Benício's astounding performance in Possible Loves (Amores Possíveis) and now are hot on the trail of his other work.

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    • Release date
      • September 2006 (Netherlands)
    • Country of origin
      • Netherlands
    • Official site
      • Official site (Netherlands)
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
    • Production companies
      • Slavenburg Films
      • Waterwood Films
      • Fylmar Productions
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      • $2,600,000 (estimated)
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      1 hour 40 minutes
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