The Swindle
Two L.A. hustlers' obsessive quest for sex and money.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 29, 2006
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: New Yorker Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Isabelle Huppert & Michel Serrault | |
Performer: | François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jackie Berroyer, Jean Benguigui & Thomas Chabrol | |
Directed by | Claude Chabrol | |
Edited by | Monique Fardoulis | |
Music by | Matthieu Chabrol | |
Screenwriting by | Claude Chabrol | |
Composition by | Matthieu Chabrol | |
Produced by | Marin Karmitz | |
Director of Photography: | Eduardo Serra |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
As a cinematic confection from one of the masters, it's cotton candy, evaporating before it ever gets good.
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DVDTalk.com
...The film is a refreshing opportunity for its 68-year-old maker to have the next best thing to larkish fun... -- 3 out 4 stars
USA Today
It takes too long to get started and the playful coda is far too precious, but Chabrol builds to a vice-grip tension as small timers face the terror of big time killers...
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Seanax.com
3 stars out of 5 -- [I]t twists as ambiguously as the smile on Huppert's face, and is just as easy to watch.
Uncut
This is a piece of fluff that dissolves like a sugar cube as you watch it.
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CNN.com
Rating: 4/4 --
The Swindle might not be a deep film, but it makes no missteps in showing us the steps these two small time crooks take as they attempt to pull off a big time con.
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MovieMartyr.com
...Mr. Chabrol keeps curiosity piqued, the actors delightful and the outcome in sufficient question. The performances are so winkingly adroit that THE SWINDLE becomes as much a character study as a caper story...It glides gracefully as both...
New York Times
Product Description:
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.
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