Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (2001)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.4/10   

Director:

Jean-Paul Salomé

Escritores:

Arthur Bernède (novel)
Jean-Paul Salomé (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

4 abril 2001 (France)

Género:

Misterio | Fantasía | Horror

Plot:

A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris...

Plot Keywords:

Museum | Egyptian | Louvre | Detective | Paris

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

Reparto

Sophie Marceau	...	Lisa / Belphégor
Michel Serrault	...	Verlac
Frédéric Diefenthal	...	Martin
Julie Christie	...	Glenda Spender
Jean-François Balmer	...	Bertrand Faussier
Patachou	...	Geneviève
Lionel Abelanski	...	Simonnet
Françoise Lépine	...	Suzanne Dupré
François Levantal	...	Mangin
Jacques Martial	...	Félix
Philippe Maymat	...	Bob
Pierre Aussedat	...	Pierre Desfontaines
Matteo Vallon	...	Cemetary employee
Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat	...	Cemetary warden
Juliette Gréco	...	Woman in the cemetary

También conocida como:

Belphecor: Curse of the Mummy (Philippines: English title)
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (Europe: English title)
La leyenda del fantasma (Argentina) (video title) [es]
La máscara del faraón (Spain) [es]
Máscara del faraón: Belphegor, el fantasma del Louvre (Spain) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Malaysia:U | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:16 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Philippines:PG-13 | Spain:7 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:16 | Iceland:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Metro Vaneau, Paris 7, Paris, France

Compañía:

Les Films Alain Sarde

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones "Belphégor" (1965)

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

A three thousand year old mummy wreaking havoc in the famous Louvre Museum was the subject of a popular French TV series for youngsters from the '60s, starring legendary chanteuse Juliette Gréco. Now, young director – who undoubtedly grew up with the show – Jean-Paul Salomé (who would go on to make the equally nostalgic ARSENE LUPIN) has turned this pivotal childhood experience into an expensive and undeniably good-looking multiplex blockbuster. The elaborate CGI alone must have eaten up a considerable chunk of the budget. Erstwhile centerpiece Gréco even does a walk-on in an atmospheric cemetery scene where she briefly makes eye contact with replacement Sophie Marceau, a talented thespian best known to US audiences for her purely decorative turn in Mel Gibson's supremely silly BRAVEHEART.

Though aimed at family audiences, this fairly old-fashioned adventure yarn will please moms and dads rather than their offspring who have become accustomed to far more gruesome sights than the very mild horrors on display here. For the uninitiated, this intentionally naive mix of scares and chuckles should be a disconcerting experience. For example, in spite of its 1935 Egypt prologue, complete with a tomb desecration whose perpetrators wind up swiftly dispatched, the movie draws less inspiration from old Universal or Hammer mummy chillers than from a long line of possession flicks ranging from the modest WITCHBOARD series to the landmark EXORCIST, with Marceau as beleaguered heroine Lisa, unwilling vessel to the mummy's vengeful spirit, doing a PG version of Linda Blair's finest hour for the film's grand finale. More importantly for a pervert like myself, she also bares her shapely butt and (right) boob on separate occasions, just so you won't forget this is a French film after all. Diminutive Frédéric Diefenthal, who rose to prominence through his performance as the clumsy policeman hero of the wildly popular TAXI movies with Samy Naceri, registers strongly as her frequently beaten up romantic foil. Dependable old timer Michel Serrault (forever swishy Alban from the original LA CAGE AUX FOLLES) gets all the best Lines as a retired cop turned security expert plus a halfway decent farcical romance with bumbling Egyptologist Julie Christie, the latter handling her French dialog in disarming Laurel & Hardy fashion !

Once viewers can get past the fact that this movie's not intended to scare the living daylights out of them – though the image of the diabolical Belphégor in full ceremonial burial dress hovering through the museum corridors has an eerie Jean Rollin poetry to it – they can fully enjoy this handsomely mounted horror comedy for its ingratiating performances, amiably ludicrous set pieces and stunningly shot Paris settings with all tourist traps present and accounted for. A genuinely haunting score by fast-rising composer Bruno Coulais, who went on to write the music for the immensely successful LES CHORISTES, provides the icing on the cake.