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Fresh Bait movie storyline. This French drama examines three amoral young people living in Paris. 18-year-old Nathalie (Marie Gillain) works in a clothing store and dreams of opening her own boutique in the United States. She shares an apartment with her boyfriend Eric (Olivier Sitruk) and his slow-witted pal Bruno (Bruno Putzulu); she pays the rent while they stay home and watch crime movies on television.
All three are looking for a fast and easy way to make some money, so together they devise a plan. Nathalie will hang out in nightclubs, meet prosperous-looking men, and go home with them. Once she’s inside their apartments, she’ll let in Eric and Bruno, and they’ll rob the place of cash and valuables. The plan works well at first, before things go wrong one night and Eric commands Bruno to kill their victim.
The Bait (French: L’Appât), also known as Fresh Bait, is a 1995 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier about two boys and a girl who commit a murder, with the girl acting as a ‘bait’. The film is based on the 1990 book of the same name by Morgan Sportès, which is in turn based on the “Valérie Subra affair”, a true event that happened in 1984. ıt stars Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Philippe Duclos, Marie Ravel, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Louis Richard and Christophe Odent.
Film Review for L’Appât – Fresh Bait
It was with the Valérie Subra affair during the 80s, which fascinates Tavernier, that everything begins. He decided to buy the rights of the book Morgan Sportès, exact reconstitution of the case, and began to write the script with his wife Colo.
He wants to tell a story that can happen to anyone, a film that describes the behaviors and motivations of this youth of the 90s. A youth under the total control of an American visual imagination. A youth who no longer thinks of the consequences of his actions, who believes only in one value: money.
He also wants to make a film about the ravages of inculturation and stupidity. A true dissection of this generation who prefers to see 100 times the “Scarface” of Brian De Palma and who likes to repeat that future rhymes with power and celebrity. In “L’Appât”, Tavernier goes beyond the criteria of sympathy or antipathy and thanks to the young actors more real than nature, we are suddenly exposed, not an attempt, not a portrait, but indeed a Photograph, a true copy of what each of us can see today. A carelessness, an egoism, a lack of coaching. A “small world” closed and literally drowned in illusion.
The film has generated many reactions and boiled a line of well-thinking people who claimed that the main unbearable element is the violence of the film. And yet we see practically nothing, no blood, no scenes of butcheries (unlike “Scarface”).
And yet people were shocked? Normal because the violence that Tavernier exposes us is real, depicted in all that life can involve atrocious. Crude emotions, a nightmare that never wakes up. Tavernier is therefore aware, he did not stay in the sixties, he evolved, he understood. And it is very effective.
L’Appât – Fresh Bait (1995)
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Philippe Duclos, Marie Ravel, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Louis Richard, Christophe Odent
Screenplay by: Bertrand Tavernier, Colo Tavernier
Production Design by: Emile Ghigo
Cinematography by: Alain Choquart
Film Editing by: Luce Grunenwaldt
Costume Design by: Marpessa Djian
Music by: Philippe Haïm
Distributed by: Artificial Eye
Release Date: March 8, 1995 (France), October 20, 1994 (United States)
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