L'enfer
- 2005
- 1h 42m
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6.8/10
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Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic
- Antoin, le père
- (as Miki Manojlovic)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe second of the "Heaven"-"Hell"-"Purgatory" trilogy that Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski had written before his death. The first, "Heaven" was shot by Tom Tykwer.
- ConnectionsFeatures Winged Migration (2001)
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Medea Tragedy
In Paris, a family is victim of a tragic incident, when the patriarch is denounced by his wife of pedophilia. Years later, the three sisters have independent dysfunctional lives and never see each other. The middle sister Sophie (Emmanuelle Béart) finds that her beloved husband and photographer Pierre (Jacques Gamblin) is unfaithful and is having an affair with Julie (Maryam d'Abo) and he leaves her. When the lover discovers that Pierre has two children, she ends the affair. The youngest, Anne (Marie Gillain), is student of Sorbonne and has a crush and gets pregnant of her professor Frédéric (Jacques Perrin), who is married and father of her best friend. The oldest sister, Céline (Karin Viard), is a lonely woman that periodically travels by train to visit her handicapped dumb mother Marie (Carole Bouquet) that is trapped in a wheelchair in an asylum for elders. When the stranger Sébastien (Guillaume Canet) contacts Céline, she believes he is a shy admirer; however, after an awkward encounter, he reveals secrets from the past that will affect the relationship among the sisters.
"L' Enfer" is a heavy drama of sisters in love, actually doomed love, and is an analogy to the Medea Greek tragedy: Sophie loves her unfaithful husband; Anne loves her professor and father's figure; Céline is needy of love. In common, the three sisters have their lives affected in their childhood by a tragedy caused by the attitude of their mother that accused her husband of pedophilia, never listening to his explanations and giving the chance of defense. The trio of lead actresses are great actresses and extremely beautiful, and the gorgeous Carole Bouquet is unrecognizable in the role of an old and suffered woman living her personal hell. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Inferno" ("Hell")
"L' Enfer" is a heavy drama of sisters in love, actually doomed love, and is an analogy to the Medea Greek tragedy: Sophie loves her unfaithful husband; Anne loves her professor and father's figure; Céline is needy of love. In common, the three sisters have their lives affected in their childhood by a tragedy caused by the attitude of their mother that accused her husband of pedophilia, never listening to his explanations and giving the chance of defense. The trio of lead actresses are great actresses and extremely beautiful, and the gorgeous Carole Bouquet is unrecognizable in the role of an old and suffered woman living her personal hell. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Inferno" ("Hell")
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- Hell
- Filming locations
- Château du Haut, Domaine de Villarceaux, Route de Magny, Chaussy, Val-d'Oise, France(nursing home where Marie is treated)
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- $595,618
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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