Pars vite et reviens tard (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.4/10   

Director:

Régis Wargnier

Escritores:

Ariane Fert (adaptation)
Ariane Fert (scenario)
(más)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 enero 2007 (Belgium)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Plot:

A modern-day Parisian town crier gradually learns that someone is using him to give cryptic warnings of a plague outbreak in the city.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A meagre and flawed adaptation

Reparto

José Garcia	...	Le commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg
Lucas Belvaux	...	Danglard
Marie Gillain	...	Marie
Olivier Gourmet	...	Joss Le Guern
Nicolas Cazalé	...	Damas
Linh Dan Pham	...	Camille
Michel Serrault	...	Hervé Decambrais / Hervé Ducouëdic
Nadine Alari	...	Clémentine / Grandmother of Damas
Sophie Aubry	...	Eva
Félicité N'Gijol	...	Lisbeth
Jean-Gilles Barbier	...	Favre
Philippe Bas	...	Maurel
Laëtitia Lacroix	...	Retancourt
Dominique Bettenfeld	...	Castillon
Stéphane Butet	...	Kernokian
Jean-Pierre Becker	...	Voisinet
Jean-Michel Noirey	...	Roubaud
Grégory Gadebois	...	Bordenave (as Gregory Gadebois)
Alain Fromager	...	Langlois
Mathias Mlekuz	...	Cazalas
Marie-Armelle Deguy	...	Professeur Mathalon
Jean-Philippe Puymartin	...	Brezillon
Lana Ettinger	...	Marianne Bardou
Florence Muller	...	Maryse
Raphaël Poulain	...	Blanchet
Jean-Marie Juan	...	Massena
Éric Périssé	...	Gauthier (as Eric Perissé)
Fabio Tonello	...	Damas enfant
Daniel Kenigsberg	...	Bertin
Esther Sironneau	...	Isabelle
Arnaud Maillard	...	Frédéric
Laurent Richard	...	Homme '16'
Marc Robert	...	Estalère
Emmanuel Vottero	...	Marmot
Gregory Montel	...	Journaliste 2 (as Grégory Montel)
Grégoire Taulère	...	Journaliste 3
Sophie Le Tellier	...	Journaliste AFP
Frédéric Jardin	...	Heller-Devile
Norbert Haberlick	...	Policier immeuble
Roméo Escala	...	Photographe
Victoria Beauval	...	Adèle
Marie Parouty	...	Femme 1
Emma-Louise Marsal	...	Lucie
Myriam Moszko	...	Concierge
Jacques Collard	...	Gardien Marianne
Cécile Sanz de Alba	...	Femme flic
Geneviève Rey-Penchenat	...	Madame Marmot (as Geneviève Penchenat)
Serpentine Teyssier	...	Bibliothécaire
Satya Dusaugey	...	Ami Damas 1
Justin Blanckaert	...	Ami Damas 2
Garance Le Guillermic	...	Lucie Danglard
Nicolas Balourdet	...	Cédric Danglard
Pierre Balourdet	...	Matthieu Danglard
Titouan Laporte	...	Victor Danglard
Alexandre Chielens	...	Lucas Danglard
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Laurent Rochard
Eric Soubelet	...	Un inspecteur

Dirigida por
Régis Wargnier

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Ariane Fert		adaptation
Ariane Fert		scenario
Harriet Marin		adaptation
Harriet Marin		scenario
Julien Rappeneau		adaptation
Julien Rappeneau		scenario
Lawrence Shore		adaptation
Lawrence Shore		scenario
Fred Vargas		novel "Pars vite et reviens tard"
Régis Wargnier		adaptation
Régis Wargnier		scenario

Producida por
Grégory Barrey	....	assistant producer
Cyril Colbeau-Justin	....	producer
Jean-Baptiste Dupont	....	producer
Nina Heyns	....	line producer: South Africa

Música original por
Patrick Doyle

Fotografía por
Laurent Dailland

Montaje por
Yann Malcor

Casting
Pierre-Jacques Bénichou

Diseño de producción por
Olivier Radot

Diseño de vestuario por
Elisabeth Rousseau

Departamento de maquillaje
Patrick Girault	....	key hair stylist
Liliane Rametta	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Jean-Charles Berlan	....	assistant unit manager
Edouard Decker	....	assistant unit manager
David Giordano	....	production manager
Valentin Jacob	....	trainee unit manager
David Massicot	....	assistant unit manager

Ayudante de dirección
Sophie Berger Forestier	....	second assistant director
Carole Breteau	....	third assistant director
George Every	....	first assistant director
Ollivier Guytard	....	first assistant director: second unit
Marjorie Marramaque	....	second assistant director: second unit
Eliot Mathews	....	second assistant director
Julien Petit	....	assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Tristan Girault	....	property master

Departamento de sonido
James McWilliam	....	programmer
Hubert Persat	....	assistant sound editor
Stephane Rabeau	....	assistant sound editor
Guillaume Sciama	....	sound mixer

Efectos especiales
Olivier Afonso	....	special effects makeup
Guillaume Castagné	....	special effects makeup
Philippe Hubin	....	special effects supervisor
Frédéric Lainé	....	special effects makeup
Jean-Christophe Magnaud	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects
Servadio Adrien	....	digital artist
Benjamin Ageorges	....	digital artist
Stephane Bidault	....	visual effects supervisor
Nicolas Delbecq	....	digital artist
Jean-Antoine Lacolle	....	digital artist

Especialistas
Virginie Arnaud	....	stunts
Christian Bergner	....	stunts
Vincent Bersoulle	....	stunts
Sybille Blouin	....	stunts
Michel Bouis	....	stunts
William Cagnard	....	stunts
Gilles Conseil	....	stunt coordinator
Sylvain Gabet	....	stunts
David Genty	....	stunts
Jean Girard	....	stunts
Alain Grellier	....	stunts
Pascal Guégan	....	stunts
Philippe Guégan	....	stunts
Jean-Benoit Guillon	....	stunts
Alain Guillot	....	stunts
David Julienne	....	stunts
Michel Julienne	....	stunts
Pascal Lavanchy	....	stunts
Gregory Loffredo	....	stunt double
Gregory Loffredo	....	stunts
Christophe Marsaud	....	stunts (as Christopher Marsaud)
Patrick Médioni	....	stunts
Philippe Morel	....	stunts
Sébastien Seveau	....	stunts

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Ashley Bond	....	first assistant camera
Julien Cottret	....	grip
Marie Decourt	....	second assistant camera
Gil Fontbonne	....	key grip
Arnaud Gervet	....	second assistant camera
Arnaud Gervet	....	video assistant
Bruno Glasberg	....	electrician
Stuart Howell	....	Steadicam operator
Stuart Howell	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Eléonore Huisse	....	additional assistant camera
Océane Lavergne	....	first assistant camera
Maud Lemaistre	....	additional first assistant camera
Théo Louis Jean	....	grip
Farès Messaoud	....	additional video assistant
Pascal Pajaud	....	gaffer
Thierry Ramanana	....	grip
Etienne Saldés	....	key grip

Departamento de reparto
Marc Robert	....	casting assistant

Departamento de vestuario
Darion Hing	....	costume designer: South Africa

Departamento de Edición
Nicolas Criqui	....	digital conformation
Hugues Darmois	....	post-production coordinator
Yseult Huret	....	assistant editor
Isabelle Julien	....	color timer
Frederic Jupin	....	lustre editor
Philippe Reinaudo	....	digital intermediate technical director

Departamento de Música
James Bellamy	....	music editor
Lucy Evans	....	assistant music producer
Jake Jackson	....	music recording mixer
Maggie Rodford	....	music producer: Air-Edel
James Shearman	....	orchestrator

Otros miembros del equipo
Delphine Berroyer	....	production secretary
Frédéric Cauvy	....	weapons advisor
Jean-Baptiste Jay	....	flight head technician
Romeo Julien	....	avid conformation
Bernard Vander Donckt	....	production administrator

Compañías Productores

• Gaumont (present)
• LGM Productions (co-production)
• KL Production (co-production)
• Gaumont (co-production)
• TF1 Films Production (co-production)
• Artémis Productions (co-production)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• Uni Etoile 4
• Région Ile-de-France (support)
• 13e Rue

Distribuidores

• Gaumont (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• Gaumont DVD (2007) (France) (DVD)
• Albatros Film (2008) (Japan) (DVD)
• Bir Film (2007) (Turkey) (theatrical)
• Christal Films (2007) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Films de l'Elysée, Les (2007) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Monopole-Pathé (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)

Efectos especiales

• AutreChose

También conocida como:

Have Mercy on Us All (International: English title)
Seeds of Death (Europe: English title)
Plaga final (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Germany:116 min (European Film Market)

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Clasificación:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Germany:12 | Mexico:B15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Paris, France

Compañía:

Gaumont

A meagre and flawed adaptation

There are tons of movies based on books. Some are good, some are fine, and some are bad. As someone who read most of Fred Vargas's novels, I was quite disappointed by this movie adaptation of "Pars vite et reviens tard". There are too many plot and character changes, but, most importantly, the movie fails to seize the spirit of the novel - which effectively turns it in a bland and unoriginal police thriller.

At its core, "Pars vite et reviens tard" (translated as "Have mercy on us all" in English) is a not-so-traditional police thriller in which we follow Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg as he tries to catch a mysterious murderer who makes it seem as if the plague kills his victims. The general storyline is followed in the movie, but most of the finer points have been modified; arguably to make the story more accessible to people who haven't read the book. Indeed, there are lots of details in the book and it would be impossible to include everything. Still, they made some very odd changes that somewhat disturbs the flow and character development.

In the same line of thought, the casting came in as a surprise. The much missed Michel Serrault delivers erudite Decambrais pretty well, but others are blatantly different (both in physical appearance and personality) than their book counterparts (Danglard, Adamsberg's sidekick, was particularly botched in my opinion: even calling him a foil is giving him too much credit). For the most part, I found the acting to be generally bland and uninspiring.

Of course, it's impossible for a movie to be made as a carbon copy of a book (and then, such a thing could turn out bad). Minor edits to the plot line and the look of the actors are things that can be forgiven, at least up to a certain point. What really kills the movie in my opinion is how it turns the unique style of Vargas's writing in a run-of-the-mill thriller. Before being about a police officer who runs after a bad guy, Vargas's novels are about the psychological depth of her characters, particularly Adamsberg. In the movie, Adamsberg is a bland cop whose distinguishing feature is his need of a woman at night to be able to make progress in the case.

Overall, "Pars vite et reviens tard" is a disappointing movie for those who read the book. For others, it could pass as a decent police thriller, although the average acting and flow issues make it less interesting. I would warn those people though not to judge Vargas's novels on this adaptation, as it would be a big mistake.