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Le Successeur (2023)

Drama | 107 minutes
3,16 28 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 107 minuten

Alternative title: The Successor

Country: France

Directed by: Xavier Legrand

Stars: Marc-André Grondin, Yves Jacques and Louis Champagne

IMDb score: 6,7 (1.802)

Releasedate: 21 February 2024

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Le Successeur plot

Ellias Barnès is appointed as the new artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. Expectations are high, but Ellias has other concerns on his mind when he experiences chest pain. After the death of his estranged father, he is expected in Montreal to arrange the funeral. The heredities are not limited to breast pain.

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De filosoof

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The film starts promisingly and builds up to at least an exciting thriller, but fails to reach a satisfying climax. When the main character finds the girlhe makes incomprehensible decisions (why wouldn't he call the police if he already hated his father and if he wanted to protect his own image, which was his plan with the girl then?), the plot also becomes unbelievable (why does he mix his medicine with the food for the girl who hasn't fallen asleep and how can his heart problems suddenly disappear now? ?) and he acts like a klutz, making it almost a farce. Then follows a denouement that may be borrowed from Greek tragedy, in particular Oedipus, but without the tragic effect because he turns out not to have murdered his own father but the daughter of a friend of his father with whom he had nothing to do with anyway. want to do. However, that friend will experience an 'Oedipal' moment when he discovers that his friend turns out to be the murderer of his daughter, because instead of the main character taking over ('inheriting') his father's secret, he points his father's friend to the truth(and he himself will undoubtedly receive questions from the police, but that sequel is not in the film). All in all it is an entertaining film but the plot is shaky and the film ultimately does not have the power that it promises and that you hope for.

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mrklm

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Strange mix of genres (IMDB actually calls it a thriller) about a successful fashion designer [Marc-André Grondin] who reluctantly returns to Canada during a busy period of his career after the death of his father, whom he has not seen for years. He wants to settle things as quickly as possible, but fate seems to want to keep him there. And then he makes a shocking discovery. Legrand spends an extraordinary amount of time on the main character's panic attacks, removing any semblance of momentum from this thin story that is full of irony. An ideal scenario for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as Hitchcock easily handled this within 25 minutes.

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