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HARRY, UN AMI QUI VOUS VEUT DU BIEN
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France
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 117 min.
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HARRY, HE'S HERE TO HELP
Michel and Claire are facing a tough vacation. They're in a heatwave and their three small girls are cranky and always in their hair. The work on the rickety farmhouse they've been restoring for the past three years is still unfinished and they're stressed out all day. Enter Harry. At a highway rest stop, while washing his hands, Michel encounters an old classmate he really doesn't remember. But Michel obviously made a major impact on Harry, who can not only recite poetry Michel wrote for the school newspaper, he also used to date his ex-girlfriends. Before Michel has a chance to object, Harry manages to invite himself and his voluptuous, dim-witted girlfriend Plum over to their vacation home. Harry is troubled that Michel, overwhelmed by the tasks of daily life, has stopped writing. He decides to help. But Harry's notion of help is a bit peculiar.
I prefer the suggestion of violence. In PSYCHO you never see the knife plunge into the body of the woman in the shower. -- Dominik Moll
There is more than a little Hitchcockian mischief at work in HARRY, HE'S HERE TO HELP... an artfully entertaining psychological thriller. -- Michael Rechtshaffen (Hollywood Reporter)
Moll's direction is stark, concise, skillful... Sergi Lopez' Harry is filled with gentle menace, a tour-de-force performance. -- Anthony Kaufman (IndieWire)
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Script: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand.
Phot.: Matthieu Poirot-Delpech.
Ed.: Yannick Kergoat.
Mus.: David Sinclair Whitaker.
Cast: Laurent Lucas, Sergi Lopez, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin, Liliane Rov�re, Dominique Rozan, Michel Fau.
Prod.: Michel Saint-Jean, Diaphana Films, 155, rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75011 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 53 46 66 66, fax: (33-01) 53 46 62 29.
Sales: Mercure Distribution, 27, rue de la Butte aux Cailles, 75013 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 44 16 88 44, fax: (33-01) 45 65 07 47Mercure Distribution, 27, rue de la Butte aux Cailles, 75013 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 44 16 88 44, fax: (33-01) 45 65 07 47.
Canadian Distributor: Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.
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Dominik Moll
Born in B�hl, Germany in 1962, Dominik Moll studied film at the City University of New York from 1984 to 1987, then attended IDHEC, the Paris film school. He directed three shorts -- The Blanket (1983), Visite m�dicale (1985) and Le Gyn�cologue et sa secr�taire (1987) -- worked as an assistant director for Marcel Oph�ls on VEILL�ES D'ARMES (1994), and directed his first feature, INTIMIT�, in 1994. |
