The Swindle ( Rien ne va plus )

The Swindle (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rien ne va plus
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Claude Chabrol

Written By:
Claude Chabrol

Actors:
Isabelle Huppert ..... Elizabeth / Betty
Michel Serrault ..... Victor
François Cluzet ..... Maurice Biagini
Jean-François Balmer ..... Monsieur K
Jackie Berroyer ..... Robert Chatillon
Jean Benguigui ..... Guadeloupe Gangster
Mony Dalmès ..... Signora Trotti (as Mony Dalmes)
Thomas Chabrol ..... Swiss Desk Clerk
Greg Germain ..... Chatty Man
Nathalie Kousnetzoff ..... Blond Woman
Pierre Martot ..... Conventioneer
Eric Bonicatto ..... Conventioneer
Pierre-François Dumeniaud ..... Conventioneer
Yves Verhoeven ..... Pickpocket
Henri Attal ..... Greek Vendor

Synopsis:

In Claude Chabrol's fiftieth film, two lifelong partners in crime, Betty (Isabelle Hupert) and Victor (Michel Serrault), operating out of a small RV, criss-cross the country, hopping from convention to convention and scamming bourgeois businessmen out of petty sums of money. They make enough, however, to maintain a comfortable if elusive lifestyle. When Victor discovers that Betty has been carrying on her own scam for over a year, the blurry lines between secrets and lies break down. As the scheming duo go ahead with Betty's complicated scheme to steal a breifcase from a man (Francois Cluzet) who holds the treasure of a multinational corporation, the film kicks in to high gear. Filled with switched identities, changing allegiances, suppressed romances, and switcheroos, the elaborate story, which takes viewers from the Swiss Alps to the tropics, leads to an operatic and surprising climax. True to Chabrol's style, the ambiguous and compelling psychology, always in flux, propels the drama of the film forward even more than the actual danger of the plot.

The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic thriller about a pair of con artists. Up to now, the duo of Betty (Isabelle Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) have contented themselves to small scams at hotel conventions, such as spiking the drink of a gambler, then rolling him for his winnings after he follows the flirtatious Betty back to his room and passes out. It then develops that, for the past year, without telling Victor, Betty has been plotting an enormous score involving Maurice (François Cluzet), the treasurer of an international corporation, who's planning to abscond with a briefcase containing five million Swiss francs in syndicate money. Betty's plan is for Victor to swap an identical briefcase with Maurice's and walk away with the jackpot, but Victor becomes suspicious of Betty's solo venture. Is his once-loyal partner betraying him? What about Maurice, who's no fool, and his gangster bosses, who will surely want their money returned? A dizzying array of potential double-crosses muddles the question of who's grifting who in the Betty-Victor-Maurice triangle. Rien Ne Va Plus (1997) screened at several film festivals under the English-language title The Swindle.

Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money. On whose side is Betty - Victor's, Maurice's or only her own?

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 26 February, 2010.

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