Child's Play
Synopsis
Marianne, Jacques and their two children, Julien and Aube: an unremarkable middle-class family living happily in a wealthy district of Paris. Following the appearance of an elderly brother and sister strangely anxious to revisit their beloved childhood home, their peaceful existence is turned on end, then torn savagely apart by a sequence of terrifying and inexplicable events. While Julien and Aube play their increasingly sinister games, unnaturally oblivious to the gathering madness around them, Marianne and Jacques are cast headlong into a nightmare which reveals the dark secrets behind the bland façade of their lives and threatens to destroy them. And as her husband becomes a stranger, slipping ever deeper into insanity, as she realises with ever-growing horror that her children are posessed by a malign force of terrifying power, Marianne is left to confront the evil alone.
Laurent Tuel's second feature is a supernatural psychological nerve shredder, a shattering depiction of the anguish and terror of a woman cast sideways into living Hell... A "Repulsion" for 2001.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (20)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Fidélité Films
- Co-productions : Mars Distribution, Film Office
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Mars Distribution
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
- Screenwriters : Laurent Tuel, Constance Verlucca
- Director of Photography : Denis Rouden
- Music Composer : Krishna Levy
- Editor : Andrea Sedlackova
- Sound recordists : Olivier Le Vacon, François Waledisch
- Costume designer : Pascaline Chavanne
- Assistant Operators : Catherine Briault, Pauline Coste
- Press Attaché (film) : Joëlle Benchimol
- Assistant editor : Maya Cypel
- Continuity supervisor : Isabelle Le Grix
- Production Designer : Bruno Hadjadj
- Casting : Elsa Pharaon, Stéphane Gaillard
- Sound Mixer : Cyril Holtz
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2000
- French release : 20/06/2001
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 100.677
- Visa issue date : 26/06/2001
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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