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L'ivresse du pouvoir

  • 2006
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  • 1h 50m
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L'ivresse du pouvoir (2006)
Drama

A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.

  • Director
    • Claude Chabrol
  • Writers
    • Claude Chabrol
    • Odile Barski
  • Stars
    • Isabelle Huppert
    • François Berléand
    • Patrick Bruel
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    3.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Claude Chabrol
    • Writers
      • Claude Chabrol
      • Odile Barski
    • Stars
      • Isabelle Huppert
      • François Berléand
      • Patrick Bruel
    • 23User reviews
    • 75Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 7 nominations total

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    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    • Jeanne Charmant-Killman
    François Berléand
    François Berléand
    • Michel Humeau
    Patrick Bruel
    Patrick Bruel
    • Jacques Sibaud
    Marilyne Canto
    Marilyne Canto
    • Erika
    Robin Renucci
    Robin Renucci
    • Philippe Charmant-Killman
    Thomas Chabrol
    Thomas Chabrol
    • Félix
    Jean-François Balmer
    Jean-François Balmer
    • Boldi
    Pierre Vernier
    Pierre Vernier
    • Président Martino
    Jacques Boudet
    Jacques Boudet
    • Descarts
    Philippe Duclos
    Philippe Duclos
    • Jean-Baptiste Holéo
    Roger Dumas
    Roger Dumas
    • René Lange
    John Arnold
    • Homme jaguar #1
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    • Me Parlebas
    Jacques Bouanich
    • Le gardien de la prison
    Benoît Charpentier
    • Journaliste économique
    Laurence Colussi
    • Secrétaire ascenseur
    Dominique Daguier
    • Inconnu #2
    Stéphane Debac
    Stéphane Debac
    • Flic trentenaire #1
    • Director
      • Claude Chabrol
    • Writers
      • Claude Chabrol
      • Odile Barski
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    10tarone586

    Unforgettable.

    Claude Chabrol return to his form with this masterpiece. I saw it at the Berlinale and the battle for tickets was worth it. Chabrol directs his actors in a very subtle way; it is not the main plot points that arouse your emotion, but small moments in the game between Charmant Killman and her opponents. Although all opponents are deeply bad people, Chabrol succeeds in giving them "things" that make them human beings and recognizable characters. Including all supporting and even one-line-characters. Watch Killmans Bodyguards, for example. Watch how Chabrol begins and ends scenes - very unusual. Watch the juxtaposition of Killmans life as a judge and her private life. I won't say much about the film itself, as it is good to know nothing about it before. It's a wise film, "La Piovra" in a cinema version (and much shorter), dealing with a topic that is most important in our western industrial countries - silent corruption. Most times the corruption theme in films bores, but Chabrol and Huppert make it a joy.
    7kosmasp

    Good, but ...

    ... could've been better. At least that's what I think. This movie does start with a phenomenal pace and you get sucked into the story, but then after a little while it drags and you're wondering where the passion of the first few minutes has gone. I wondered that and you might too.

    Let's take a look at the actors though, because they are doing a fabulous job here. And the movie will stand of fall for you (the viewer), with your perception of Jeanne Charmant-Killman (played by Isabelle Huppert). If you don't like her, than you will hate this movie.

    Despite all that, this is still an engaging film, that has a few surprises up it's sleeves, so it's up to you, if this genre is something worth watching.
    9ralph.theijs

    Chabrol back on form and back in Paris

    You don't HAVE to know the ELF-scandal to appreciate this, but it helps. Not long ago I asked my french prof at the Alliance Francaise to explain these funny french scandals (ELF through Clearstream 2) and he had to abstain: too complicated, even for a native Frenchman.

    The company is called FMG in the film: just as Kubrick went down a letter in the alphabet to go from IBM to HAL, Chabrol goes up a letter in the alphabet to go from ELF to FMG. Nice touch! On the other hand, the cigar in the cognac was a tad overdone, to my tastes.

    Huppert confirms once again she is in a class all of her own. Rest of the cast, Berléand, Canto, Vernier, Duclos (!); all solid.

    For the very hardest core of french movie buffs only: did anyone else recognize the two guards – one bald, the other dark-haired – as Chabrol's homage to Zardi et Attal who did numerous duo's like this for him and other directors? Best Chabrol in years, but my judgment may be a bit colored: after 30 Chabrols, this was the first I saw in a theater instead of on my couch.
    9jfseignol

    Based on "Elf affair"

    This new movie by Claude Chabrol is directly inspired by a true story. The "Affaire Elf", named by the french oil-company, was a large financial and political scandal where several top-level french politicians where involved, such as Roland Dumas (ex foreign-affairs minister) or Charles Pasqua (ex minister of interior). As in the true story, a judge is investigating about some corruption in business between a french major company and some African states. Most of the characters in the movie are very similar to real persons involved in the "Affaire Elf".

    The movie focuses on two subjects: the first one is how the judge (Isabelle Huppert) becomes more and more addicted to the power she uses by sending powerful businessmen to jail; the second one is the wide-scale cynicalness of people involved in the scandal, used to play with public money and take advantage of this without seeing anything immoral.

    A good movie, very funny because, as stated at the beginning "any similarity with real person or event would be, as it is said, fortuitousness".
    6michel-crolais

    The implication of examining magistrate in corrupt business.

    An examining magistrate, Jeanne Charmant Killman, has been charged to investigate a very delicate affair touching political and industrial circles. She puts in examination Humeau, the president of a very large French consortium, which works on foreign affairs. The judge pushes the president and many others personalities in order to clarify all the traffic implications of the affair. She will be bound to numerous influences and his life will be put into danger, also his family life. The film is centred both on large traffics and corruption, which exist on international business, and also on powers (sometimes too big) that exist for examining magistrate. Isabelle Huppert very well acts the movie, but it seams to me that it is not a very great Chabrol's movie.

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      The scenario is based on a true story, the "Affaire Elf" political and financial scandal in France.
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      Composed by Edvard Grieg (1875)

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 22, 2006 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Germany
    • Official site
      • Pan-Européenne (France)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • La comédie du pouvoir
    • Filming locations
      • Hôpital, Le Vésinet, Yvelines, France
    • Production companies
      • Alicéléo
      • France 2 Cinéma
      • A.J.O.Z. Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $80,550
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $10,061
      • Jan 7, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $8,987,781
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 50m(110 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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