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False Confessions

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An accountant and his accomplice try to manipulate a good-hearted, wealthy widow and her friend.

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Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle 08/09/2017
2/4
The essential problem is that artifice for artifice's sake loses its fascination when divorced from human emotion or grand stakes. Go to Full Review Ben Sachs Chicago Reader 07/20/2017
Onscreen these devices seem stagey and awkward, and the pacing is slow and clunky. Go to Full Review Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times 07/20/2017
Despite a few playful flourishes, filmmaker Luc Bondy's experiment in artifice never takes flight. Go to Full Review Elissa Suh StageBuddy.com 03/12/2020
This rendition loses something perhaps in substance and style; the beauty and weight of Marivaux's language obviously to the non French-speaker, but also any meta-reflexive commentary that might be gleaned from the film's setting... Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 10/10/2019
4/5
Playful, bizarre, and unabashedly theatrical, choice casting and an inescapable aura of finality imbues this curious last testament from Luc Bondy with an underlying streak of melancholy. Go to Full Review Cate Marquis We Are Movie Geeks 04/29/2019
3.5/5
It is just a little bit of theater-and-film crossover fun for Francophiles. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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04/14/2017 Então, como eu havia dito, 2016 foi o ano de Huppert, Binoche e Stewart. Em 2017, Kristen Stewart parece estar à frente, já que este filme saído da montagem teatral da peça de Marivaux não tem alma. E olha que é difícil errar com Huppert e Garrel. Senhor. See more Read all reviews
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Luc Bondy

Director

Isabelle Huppert

Araminte

Louis Garrel

Dorante

Bulle Ogier

Madame Argante

Yves Jacques

Dubois

Bernard Verley

Monsieur Rémy
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Movie Info

Synopsis An accountant and his accomplice try to manipulate a good-hearted, wealthy widow and her friend.
Director
Luc Bondy
Screenwriter
Luc Bondy, Geoffrey Layton
Distributor
Big World Pictures
Production Co
Idéale Audience, Maha Productions, Arte France
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 14, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 24, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$27.5K
Runtime
1h 25m
Sound Mix
Stereo