SYNOPSIS
When an elderly writer dies in his bathtub one night, only a single person knows the secret existence of his last manuscript: Bertrand, a young man who is also accidental witness to the writer’s death. Bertrand has the deceased’s last play performed under his own name and is intoxicated by its success. But the world is soon eager for another work from this supposed young literary genius. In the midst of his attempts to put a new creation to paper, Bertrand encounters an attractive but mysterious woman named Eva. To him, she is much more than merely a high-class prostitute, and their conversations flow directly into the dialogue of his new play. But he finds it impossible to penetrate Eva’s emotional armour. Nobody must know what really drives her – least of all this arrogant upstart, whose sexual dependency she exploits but whom she certainly does not trust. Bertrand becomes ensnared in an emotional entrapment that leads to catastrophe.
More than fifty years after Joseph Losey, Benoit Jacquot has revisited British writer James Hadley Chase’s novel in order to create his own cinematic adaptation: a conversation piece that plumbs the moral depths of the world of the rich and the beautiful.
More than fifty years after Joseph Losey, Benoit Jacquot has revisited British writer James Hadley Chase’s novel in order to create his own cinematic adaptation: a conversation piece that plumbs the moral depths of the world of the rich and the beautiful.
CREDITS
a film by Benoît Jacquot EVA
Isabelle Huppert Gaspard Ulliel Julia Roy Marc Barbé Richard Berry
screenplay, adaptation & dialogue Gilles Taurand and Benoît Jacquot based on the novel by James Hadley Chase director of photography Julien Hirsch sound Christian Monheim, Paul Heymans and Olivier Goinard original score Bruno Coulais editor Julia Gregory set design Katja Wyszkop assistant director Antoine Santana casting Antoinette Boulat script Geneviève Dufour costume design Marielle Robaut location manager François-Xavier Bazin head of post production Mélanie Karlin
producers Marie-Jeanne Pascal and Mélita Toscan du Plantier co-produced by Luc Besson
produced by Macassar Productions co-produced by EuropaCorp, Arte France Cinéma, NJJ Entertainment, Scope Pictures
with the participation of Canal +, Ciné +, Arte France, TeleScope Film Distribution
Isabelle Huppert Gaspard Ulliel Julia Roy Marc Barbé Richard Berry
screenplay, adaptation & dialogue Gilles Taurand and Benoît Jacquot based on the novel by James Hadley Chase director of photography Julien Hirsch sound Christian Monheim, Paul Heymans and Olivier Goinard original score Bruno Coulais editor Julia Gregory set design Katja Wyszkop assistant director Antoine Santana casting Antoinette Boulat script Geneviève Dufour costume design Marielle Robaut location manager François-Xavier Bazin head of post production Mélanie Karlin
producers Marie-Jeanne Pascal and Mélita Toscan du Plantier co-produced by Luc Besson
produced by Macassar Productions co-produced by EuropaCorp, Arte France Cinéma, NJJ Entertainment, Scope Pictures
with the participation of Canal +, Ciné +, Arte France, TeleScope Film Distribution
FRENCH DISTRIBUTION & WORLD SALES: EuropaCorp
TECHNICAL
format DCP / colour / 2.39 / 5.1 length 100 min original language French year 2018
FESTIVALS
Official Selection In Competition Berlinale (Germany) / Belgrade International Film Festival (Serbia) / Espoo Ciné International Film Festival (Finland) / Pula Film Festival (Croatia)
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