False Confessions
Big World Pictures is proud to present the US theatrical release of FALSE CONFESSIONS, a film directed by Luc Bondy, starring Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle), and Louis Garrel (Mon Roi). The film will open at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and at Angelika Film Center in New York on July 14 and at the Laemmle Royal in LA on July 21. A national release will follow.
Luc Bondy’s final feature film as director draws talent from both stage and screen to bring Marivaux’s play into 21st century Paris. Bondy staged the play and directed the movie at the same time, using the same actors for both productions.
Isabelle Huppert commands the screen as Araminte, the wealthy widow who unwittingly hires the smitten Dorante (Garrel) as her accountant. Secrets and lies accumulate as Dorante and his accomplice, Araminte’s manservant Dubois (Yves Jacques), manipulate not only the good-hearted Araminte, but also her friend and confidante, Marton (Manon Combes). Dorante, by turns pitiable and proficient, but always deferential to his social better, walks a fine line in his quest to arouse an equal desire in the object of his affections. Bulle Ogier delivers a memorable turn as Araminte’s mother, who suspects the young man’s intentions, but wants to push her daughter into the arms of an aged, hard-up Count (Jean-Pierre Malo). Filmed in part on-site at the Théâtre de l’Odéon, the film blurs the distinction between stage and screen, offering a new turn on this classic take on the psychology of love.
After Luc Bondy’s death in 2015, his wife Marie-Louise Bischofberger contributed to the completion of FALSE CONFESSIONS to achieve her late husband’s vision for the film.
About the director:
Luc Bondy was a Swiss opera, theater and film director. He staged celebrated productions at the world’s leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opera and the Salzburg Festival. His career also spanned decades of theater productions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, London and elsewhere in Europe. FALSE CONFESSIONS was his last film. Bondy died in November 2015 at the age of 67.
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