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L'Ennemi (2020)

Drama | 105 minutes
2,90 26 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 105 minuten

Alternative title: The Enemy

Country: Belgium / France / Luxembourg

Directed by: Stephan Streker

Stars: Jérémie Renier, Alma Jodorowsky and Emmanuelle Bercot

IMDb score: 5,8 (319)

Releasedate: 26 January 2022

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L'Ennemi plot

When his wife is found dead in a hotel room on the North Sea, all fingers point to the famous politician Louis Durieux. His life is ruined, but is he really guilty? No one knows, not even himself.

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yeyo

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As a director, Stephan Streker has two qualities that are normally painfully absent in Belgian cinema: a passion for faits diverse and a distinct sense of geography. How he makes Ostend come to life by night is tangible and magical. The pathetic techno bar where Durieux is drinking Japanese whisky, the imposing lobby of the Thermae Palace hotel (the real crime scene was the much less imposing and now closed Hotel Mondo). Peter Van Den Begin epitomizes the archetype of the perfect hotel receptionist, one who treats his guests with a mix of dignity and contempt. The universe Streker takes us into is one of sinister bourgeoisness, something he may have learned from his grandmaster Chabrol. Renier is very good as Durieux, playing him as an effeminate, self-righteous little fellow. Although Wesphael himself is of course also a real vain, I still had the feeling that Renier was more guided for his interpretation by the brushed-down, footballer-chic image of MR prodigy Georges Louis Bouchez, with the recurring 'je parle pas' as a feat. flamand', which Durieux mutters almost as a Pavlov reaction every time he hears a few words in the Dutch language.

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Fisico

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Interesting film by Streker, who is also a Walloon football journalist by profession, brings here a remarkable film as a director that is and is just not about the famous Whespael case in which the Ecolo politician ends up in roughly the same circumstances as the film.

This is certainly not a biography, the names are also different, but the link is easily made of course. The film is also very serene. No court, except for that one meeting with the investigating magistrate, no trial, no media interviews or outraged public opinion...

A bit of an ode to Ostend, the Queen of seaside resorts. Then of course Ensor cannot be missed. Twice a scene passes in the Ensor House. With masks, because masks conceal what is behind them. Symbolic and appropriate for the film. And the pompous Thermae Palace should not be missed either. Durieux is also highlighted for the figure. Broken and lonely in and after prison, his career is ruined.

Excellent role by Jérémie Renier, who I consider, together with Olivier Gourmet, to be the absolute top of Walloon cinema (and beyond). Stylish film with a cast that can be vulnerable. Nice little roles also for Flemish Peter Van den Begin, Bruno Vanden Broucke and Sam Louwyck.

I just wonder which prison it was filmed in. I'm not that into that...

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knuppel ihhh

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Phew, I couldn't keep my head up here. Is about a politician whose wife is found dead in the hotel room. All a bit strange and exaggerated. Too many exaggerated emotions. I was annoyed by the passionate love of the two. It seems like they want to jump on each other everywhere. Whether the woman committed suicide or whether the minister killed her is not yet known, but he is being held in prison. Together with a murderer in a small, old-fashioned cell. Very unrealistic. In the air yard is another man who tells him long stories that I have not listened to. The minister himself does not seem to talk much.

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