Hell
Synopsis
In Paris, during the eighties, a man freed from prison is rejected by his wife. At the end of his rope, he beats her up and then throws himself out the window in front of his three daughters.
Sophie, Céline and Anne, the three sisters, are now adult, each pursuing their own life. Family ties have been severed.
Sophie, the eldest, is married to Pierre, a photographer with whom she’s had two children. The couple is going through a rocky patch.
Céline, single, is the only one who takes care of their feeble mother who is in a retirement home.
Anne, an architecture student, is having a passionate love affair with Frédéric, one of her teachers.
A young man enters Céline’s life. Attractive Sébastien seems determined to charm her. What he reveals to Céline brings the three sisters together again, allows them to accept their past and to perhaps at last dare to truly live.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : ASAP Films
- Foreign production companies : Man's Films, Sintra, Bitters End Inc.
- Film exports/foreign sales : Focus Features
- French distribution : Diaphana
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Cedomir Kolar
- Screenwriter : Krzysztof Piesiewicz
- Director of Photography : Laurent Dailland
- Assistant Director : Olivier Jacquet
- Editor : Francesca Calvelli
- Sound Recordist : Dirk Bombey
- Costume designer : Caroline De Vivaise
- Foreign producers : Marion Hänsel, Yuji Sadai
- Authors of original work : Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
- Press Attaché (film) : Vanessa Jerrom
- Production Designer : Aline Bonetto
- Casting : Pierre-Jacques Bénichou
- Sound mixers : Cyril Holtz, Vincent Cosson
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy, Belgium, Japan
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy, Belgium, Japan)
- Production year : 2004
- French release : 30/11/2005
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 111.068
- Visa issue date : 21/10/2005
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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About
From a screenplay by past legend Krzysztof Kieslowski and his longtime collaborator Krzysztof Piesiewicz (The Decalogue and the Red, Blue, and White trilogy), this intense drama concerns the reuniting of three sisters. Sophie (Emmanuelle Béart) suspects her husband of cheating. Anne (Marie Gillain) is involved in a rocky affair with a married professor. Céline (Karin Viard) takes care of their wheelchair- bound mother. Their lives are linked by a shared childhood experience that reverberates in their tempestuous relationships with men. Director Tanovic, whose first feature, No Man’s Land, won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2002, was selected to make this second part in a trilogy based on Dante’s Inferno, conceived and written shortly before Kieslowski’s death. L’Enfer concerns itself with the same themes of predestination versus free will that were the hallmarks of Kieslowski’s oeuvre.
