Un secret (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Claude Miller

Escritores:

Philippe Grimbert (novel)
Claude Miller (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 octubre 2007 (France)

Género:

Drama | Guerra

Plot:

A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret. |

Plot Keywords:

Secret | Family Secret | Jewish | Birth | Marriage

Premios:

2 wins & 10 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

It's not really a secret that french academic movies bore its spectators to death

Reparto

Cécile De France	...	Tania Stirn / Grimbert
Patrick Bruel	...	Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
Ludivine Sagnier	...	Hannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg
Julie Depardieu	...	Louise
Mathieu Amalric	...	François Grimbert à 37 ans
Nathalie Boutefeu	...	Esther
Yves Verhoeven	...	Guillaume
Yves Jacques	...	Le commandant Béraud
Sam Garbarski	...	Joseph
Orlando Nicoletti	...	Simon Grinberg à 7 ans
Valentin Vigourt	...	François Grimbert à 7 ans
Quentin Dubuis	...	François Grimbert à 14 ans
Myriam Fuks	...	La mère d'Hannah
Robert Plagnol	...	Robert Stirn
Michel Israel	...	Le père d'Hannah

También conocida como:

A Secret (International: English title) (festival title) (USA) (new title)
Un secreto (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

Argentina:105 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés | Yiddish | Alemán | Hebreo

Color:

Color | Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:13 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Baraize, Indre, France

Compañía:

Canal+

Trivialidades:

Eva Green was considered for the role of Tania and Pascal Elbé for the role of Maxime

Conexiones de Película:

References La grande illusion (1937)

Banda de Sonido:

Tout ça c'est pour nous

It's not really a secret that french academic movies bore its spectators to death

I was really expecting more from this adaptation of Grimbert's novel by Claude Miller. The director showed us with his last movie, "La Petite Lili" that he was able to take an important literary text (that was "The Seagull" from Tchekhov)and to transform it into an interesting cinematographic experience. But with this secret, Miller only manages to give a boring and literal (even if he takes some liberty from the book) adaptation without any relief.

If the structure of the film, all in flash-back and time traveling, gives a modern aspect to the movie, it's merely an illusion, and a useless style effect, for the movie rapidly gives this artifice away and finally adopts a linear form. The story is the one of a young boy who learns in the 50's the secret story of his family during WWII. His family was Jew and it hasn't been easy for them during the french occupation by the German. This last sentence seems ridiculous, but it's the key to the secret of the movie ! That's how much you will learn while watching it.

The movie is also lame concerning the individual story of the child that learns the story of his family. If you have the feeling this could be the real subject of the movie during the first minutes of the film, that shows a a man (Mathieu Amalric) remembering his child wood where he learns this story, the consequences of such a discovery are eluded in the movie. And the scenes with Amalric, that seems to come from another french film d'auteur, with it's Garrel Balck and white look, are completely useless. You just get to see an old maked-up Patrick Bruel and Cecile De France in a "Once upon a time in America"'s style, but all I can say is that Claude Miller isn't Sergio Leone, and that this flash-forward effect is close to ridiculous.

The narrative structure, the mise en scene, the themes, the reconstitution, and the story of the movie are so predictable, academical and uninteresting, that the spectator attention, close to fall in beautifuler dreams, is merely kept alive by the presence of two good french actress : Ludivine Sagnier and especially Cecile De France. They're the only reason to watch this movie 'till the end and they're the one ones to bring some interest to this mediocre adaptation.