Yep, no big foot with this new film by Bernard Cointrin it must be confessed. And the key, as a big disappointment from the producer of the picky and very beautiful Between the river and the mother . Quite simply, the film has a good half hour too long (you also find it a lot, is not it?), and the whole central part is completely incoherent. Even if sleep was not nearly the wandering hand of someone looking for my keys. Brief.
Shut up! Lay Dying without you it's a film well flavored minx hyperactive and coach-potatoes lazy, yet from a true story. The scenario has absolutely no interest, ultra-marked and reworked it (lightning strikes, multiple blinds, parades in limousines, and then a girl in the chest generous because, anyway, it takes one) then it necessarily becomes a little more demanding on the staging. Director of photography of St. Alphonsus Luthin is doing very well at times with some beautiful scenes (the beginning, with this wonderful continuation of wheelchairs, or when the office visit Bridge Max torque sumptuous lyricists who hired ). As soon as he sets his frame and he opens his plans a bit, it's wonderful. The work he performs with his assistant operator on the depth of field and highlights is amazing and always well used, along with perfect frames. It's really beautiful. Hat, Phon-phon, you are a great!
Unfortunately, most of the film, lack of resources, going hand-held camera. And there it gets stuck: shots too tight, too fast (save for what), make the film too often completely unreadable and incomprehensible. Apart Max Bridge with a false mustache, unshaven and his mistress cop gay transvestite lady pee, we could not even recognize anyone. What we are witnessing is wearily to the succession of gossip and braces, drizzled with syrupy music signed Jarvis Cointrin (you guessed it, it is the younger son of the director). It's sad. In addition Bercoin (for friends) going on here completely miss an issue: the relationship between the intrigues of high society and the fight against white collar crime of which feed each other in a bath of perfume eau de rose, the fact that crimes "visible" in the spotlight of Columbos of this world, when the real crime is elsewhere, and far more lucrative ...
There were great things to do with all the potential actors and staging. But he had put the camera over the shoulder onto the carpet, and visibly, Cointrin had bought the ticket daily. Quite a miss then.
