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A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
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- TriviaThe scenario is based on a true story, the "Affaire Elf" political and financial scandal in France.
- SoundtracksPeer Gynt
Composed by Edvard Grieg (1875)
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Based on "Elf affair"
This new movie by Claude Chabrol is directly inspired by a true story. The "Affaire Elf", named by the french oil-company, was a large financial and political scandal where several top-level french politicians where involved, such as Roland Dumas (ex foreign-affairs minister) or Charles Pasqua (ex minister of interior). As in the true story, a judge is investigating about some corruption in business between a french major company and some African states. Most of the characters in the movie are very similar to real persons involved in the "Affaire Elf".
The movie focuses on two subjects: the first one is how the judge (Isabelle Huppert) becomes more and more addicted to the power she uses by sending powerful businessmen to jail; the second one is the wide-scale cynicalness of people involved in the scandal, used to play with public money and take advantage of this without seeing anything immoral.
A good movie, very funny because, as stated at the beginning "any similarity with real person or event would be, as it is said, fortuitousness".
The movie focuses on two subjects: the first one is how the judge (Isabelle Huppert) becomes more and more addicted to the power she uses by sending powerful businessmen to jail; the second one is the wide-scale cynicalness of people involved in the scandal, used to play with public money and take advantage of this without seeing anything immoral.
A good movie, very funny because, as stated at the beginning "any similarity with real person or event would be, as it is said, fortuitousness".
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- jfseignol
- Mar 1, 2006
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $80,550
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,061
- Jan 7, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $8,987,781
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