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The Origin of Evil

Laure Calamy

Doria Tillier

Dominique Blanc

Jacques Weber

Suzanne Clément

Véronique Ruggia Saura

Céleste Brunnquell

Naidra Ayadi

Clotilde Mollet

Fanny Burdino

Valentin Féron

Quentin Jolivet

Lea D'Angelo

Lucile Jacques

Adrien Dal Bello

Céline Pocréaux

Bérénice Lagrange

Marjorie Hamel

Jérôme Gaspard

Milan Evrard

Bertrand Artaut

Audrey Gatimel

Frédérike Labelle

Emmanuel Lanzi

Leïla Fournier

Robin Le Prêtre

Franck Blanc

Stéphane Boissier

Xavier Jounieaux

Suzanne Ajello

Charles Fréville

Yann Le Borgne

Joy Klasen

Justin Vanier

Dorothée Guermonprez

Céline Neveu

Nathalie Piche

Audrey Kleinclaus

Delphine Gozzo

Marjolaine Guilhaume

Marine Egry

Alice Kern

Julián Sánchez Moreno

Arthur Elie Hoyas

Luc Déry

Marité Coutard

Kim McCraw

Philippe Brault

Pierre Lapointe

Stéphane Gallou

Hans Laitres

Stephen de Oliveira

Jean-Christophe Roger

Nathalie Dages

Anaïs Ascaride

Virginie Duranteau

Sylvain Bellemare

Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin

Bernard Gariépy Strobl

Xenia Sulyma

Erik Daniel

Sébastien Marnier

Damien Rondeau

Romain Carcanade

Caroline Bonmarchand

Liva Rafidison

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I'm beginning to think that Laure Calamy doesn't make rotten films. She's really quite effective in this story of greed and manipulation as "Nathalie" or is that "Stéphane"?. Hmmm! Well initially, she's incarcerated with her lover (Suzanne Clément) but next thing she's writing to her wealthy but estranged father (Jacques Weber). A reconciliation takes place and she is quickly whisked off to his opulent villa where she is introduced to his rather eccentric family. There's the profligate wife "Louise" (Dominique Blanc) who spends fifteen hundred Euros a day shopping on the internet; very sceptical and ambitious daughter "George" (Doria Tillier) and their slightly creepy maid "Agnès" (Véronique Saura). When the family discover that their new arrival has no ID, they begin to suspect she's not quite all she claims. He, on the other hand, is facing court proceedings to cuckold him and give control of his money to his grasping family. He hopes that his new daughter can testify to their love and strong relationship and convince the judge he's not lost the plot. What happens now allows Calamy to get her character under your fingernails. We know what's actually going on from fairly early on, so the plot plays second fiddle to the acting and those characterisations here are engaging. Plaudits also must go to Blanc who pulls off the slightly deranged wife with aplomb. The denouement has a delicious little twist to it that, though probably a bit unrealistic, does add that je ne sais quoi to the proceedings. It's a little too long and maybe takes fifteen minutes more than we need to set the scene and get going; but once we are up and running it's well worth a gander.

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