The False Servant
Synopsis
A pretty, rich, young lady decides to masquerade as a lord in order to spy on her future husband. She'll take advantage of her masculine disguise to become Lélio's friend and discover what he's truly like before marrying him. Fooled by her disguise, he lets down his guard. He tells her how he once loved a countess, but he's renounced his past love for a certain Parisian lady: our lady in disguise… The "lord" stirs the countess' passion – along with that of two valets, Trivelin and Arlequin. Not content with just concealing her name – which she never reveals – by turns she'll be man and woman, aristocrat and lady's maid. In this way surrendering, without transition and by abrupt swings, to the harsh logic of classes that the old order tried so hard to keep apart.
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Actors (6)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Dacia Films
- Co-productions : Les Films du Camélia, Pyramide Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Editions Montparnasse
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
- News agency (France) : B.C.G.
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Georges Benayoun
- Director of Photography : Romain Winding
- Assistant Director : Antoine Santana
- Editor : Pascale Chavance
- Sound Recordist : Michel Vionnet
- Costume designer : Corinne Jorry
- Author of original work : Marivaux
- Co-producer : Fabienne Vonier
- Sound Assistant : Vinca Vermesse
- Assistant Operator : Philippe Lardon
- Production manager : Christine De Jekel
- Press Attachés (film) : Myriam Bruguière, Olivier Guigues
- Assistant editor : Gwénola Heaulme
- Continuity supervisor : Geneviève Dufour
- Production Designer : Pascale Consigny
- Foley artist : François Lepeuple
- Casting : Frédérique Moidon
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Dô Hûu
- Still Photographer : Nathalie Eno
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 08/03/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 96.111
- Visa issue date : 03/08/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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Marivaux should be played rather than performed (i.e., “meaningfully” drawn out). His plays are quick – hence brief, light, and agile like a brand new feeling, a perceptible hint of disenchantment. They bank on childishness in the face of adult pain and weightiness. But children are cruel: they want to learn everything about the world by acting it out, going from joy to sadness and back again, testing and pretending, within a wilderness that must be populated, once illusions have been lost, in order to live.
Benoit Jacquot, Director (excerpt from press kit)
