The Serpent ( Le Serpent ) ( The Snake )

The Serpent (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le Serpent
Alternate Title: The Snake
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Eric Barbier

Written By:
Eric Barbier
Ted Lewis

Actors:
Yvan Attal ..... Vincent
Clovis Cornillac ..... Plender
Pierre Richard ..... Cendras
Simon Abkarian ..... Sam
Minna Haapkylä ..... Hélène
Olga Kurylenko ..... Sofia
Gérald Laroche ..... Becker
Jean-Claude Bouillon ..... Max
Veronika Varga ..... Catherine
Pierre Marzin ..... Carbona

Synopsis:

Gallic writer-director Eric Barbier borrows Hitchcock's old premise of an innocent unjustly accused of lurid and brutal actions - with all evidence pointing inconveniently to him - for the Parisian-set thriller Le Serpent. Yvan Attal stars as Mandel, a slightly introverted photographer careening toward an ugly divorce from his affluent German wife. Back into his life waltzes Plender (Clovis Cornillac), a psychopath obsessed with obtaining vengeance on Mandel for a long-ago trauma that he believes the photographer caused during childhood. The revenge takes the form of a model who falsely accuses Mandel of rape and then turns up dead in the photographer's car - making him the number one suspect. At the same time, Plender begins to inveigle himself into the confidences of Mandel's unsuspecting family. Barbier also authored the screenplay, adapting a novel by Ted Lewis (Get Carter).

Vincent Mandel is a photographer caught up in an ugly divorce and fighting for custody of his children. His already troubled existence is blown apart by the appearance of a ghost from his past: Joseph Plender. Seductive, sympathetic, Plender is nonetheless utterly ruthless, a predator motivated by pure hatred of former classmate Vincent, and hungry for vengeance.

Vincent Mandel, a photographer and father on the brink of divorce, sees his life collapse because of a vile scheme cooked up by a former classmate, Joseph Plender. Murder, kidnapping, and blackmail make Vincent's life a living hell. He has only one hope left: to beat Plender at his own game.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 04 April, 2009.

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