HELL aka L'ENFER
Year: 2005
UK: Momentum Pictures
Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Karin Viard, Carole Bouquet, Marie Gillain, Jacques Perrin, Guillaume Canet, Miki Manojlovic, Jean Rochefort, Maryam d'Abo, Gaëlle Bona, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Tiffany Tougard, Marie Loboda, Emma Cuzon, Julian Ciais, Dominique Reymond, Françoise Bertin, Louis-Marie Audubert, Arnaud Churin, Jean-Louis Barcelona, Candide Sanchez, Elodie Hesme, Tatiana Gontcharova, Patrick Paroux, Olivier Claverie, Eric Naggar, Veronique Barrault, Jean-Marc Bihour, Emmanuelle Cosso, JerOme Le Paulmier, Clara Tissandier, Neil Ounais, Thomas Broustet, Isidore Renting, Esther Gorintin, Camille Roche, Margaux Roche, Francesca Stirbu, Luc Favrou, Benoît Lahoz, Florent Guillaume, Yvon Bernard, Cathy Neimark, Cyril Ryckermen, Elisabeth Colony, Charlotte Poutrel, Pauline Reinert, Amandine Decroix, Joël Templeur, Jean-Claude Roger, Elodie Rousseau, Paula Onclin, Brigitte Belle, Marion Aydalot
Director: Danis Tanovic
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 98mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains moderate violence, nudity and sex references
UK Release date: 21 April 2006
UK Distributor
French Distributor
Synopsis
Award-winning director Danis Tanovic (NO MAN'S LAND) directs a glittering French cast in HELL, the second of three films based on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Heaven, Purgatory, Hell trilogy.
In Paris in the 1980s, a man, fresh from his release from prison, is rejected by his wife. After a violent confrontation he throws himself from his apartment window, witnessed by his three young daughters. In present day Paris, the sisters, now grown up, live their own lives. The family bonds are broken. Sophie (Emmanuelle Beart), the eldest, is married with young children, but suspects her photographer husband of having an affair. The youngest sister, Anne (Marie Gillain), is a student involved in a messy relationship with one of her tutors. Middle sister Celine (Karin Viard) lives a solitary and joyless life, caring for her difficult mother (Carole Bouquet). When a young man starts to take an interest in her, she little suspects the true motive behind his approaches.