L'Appat Movie Review 1994

Deglamourizing, if familiar, look at amoral teens and violence. 18-year-old salesgirl Nathalie (Gillain) supports her unemployed boyfriend Eric (Sitruk) and his dim-bulb buddy Bruno (Putzulu). The guys hang out, watch too many gangster videos, and try to be tough, deciding to get rich by dangling Nathalie as bait. She goes to a man's home (presumably for sex) but Eric and Bruno will break in and rob the mark instead. Plan goes awry when their first victim is killed. What's truly disturbing is the trio's blase attitude that crime is a viable way to obtain money or that anything would happen to them should they be caught. Based on the book by Morgan Sportes, which recounted the 1984 crime. French with subtitles.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Available on VHS
Running time 117 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Crime

Screenplay

Bertrand Tavernier, Colo Tavernier O'Hagan

Cast

Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Philippe Duclos, Richard Berry

Director

Bertrand Tavernier

Music

Philippe Haim

Producer

Rene Cleitman, Frederic Bourboulon

Awards

Berlin Intl. Film Fest. 1994: Film.