It arrived close to on your premise

It arrived close to on your premise is a Belgian film in black and white of Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde left in 1992.

Synopsis

Belgian film worship of the Years 1990, It arrived close to on your premise puts in scene a small team of journalists who turn a report on Ben, a man who with the characteristic to kill to earn its living.

It attacks mainly the people of middle-class and to the elderly history, he, say “to work small but that brings back” much. This film wants to be a cynical parody of the famous emission Strip tease (documentary Belgians of a new kind in which the journalists are erased to let speak the protagonists alone and to expose them).

The film wants to be of a humor very black, shocking by its violence but counterbalanced by an exaggeratedly serious tone making the whole burlesque.

Summary and presentation of the main character

This False documentary, well too exaggerated so that it can appear true, is directed by Rémy (interpreted by Rémy Belvaux) which questions Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde) on his “professional life”. But very often, Rémy is satisfied to listen to the monolog-rivers of this one. With the wire of the history, Rémy becomes his/her friend and then his accomplice. The team is also made up of a cameraman and a taker of sound who are assassinated during the report at the time of shootings between Ben and the enemies of the medium.

Ben assassinates as others go to the factory: to kill, it is its trade. It carries out it without pleasure, without remorse either. To make an assassination is not an important thing in its eyes. For example, he complains about the frauds of the site foremen right after having assassinated a night watchman, or he speaks about cinema ( “That does not point out anything to you? old rifle, Philippe Noiret… good film that” ) after having assassinated a man and his wife.

Ben is also poet. He improvises for example a poem on the pigeons ( “Pigeon, bird with the gray dress/In the hell of the cities/With my glance you conceal yourself/You are really nimblest” ) in full shooting or another on the the North Sea at the restaurant.

It, mainly concerning art and the cinema and on all ( “What has its word to say seems cultivated shocks you when you look at these social dwellings? The first thing which jumps you to the eyes? They is the bricks! They is the red bricks! But the red, it is the color of blood, it is the color of the Indians, it is the color of violence! ” ).

At Ben racism and homophobie show through, without it measuring of it really the impact ( “… typically in the spirit of the Japanese gardens, because these people-there, despite everything their defects, had included/understood many things! ” ; “the Blacks get along very well with the animals, it is known… They have a way of speaking to them. ” ; “qualified, but is dissipated, like all the Mediterranean ones. ” ; “You do not find that there are many homosexual in your medium? In the medium of the spectacle… There is much more than in the normal mediums I find… I looked at you the last time all the three… You are not homosexual? You are sure, Rémy? But you can the being you know, that does not disturb me…” )

Beyond the formidable dialogs of film, completely removed from rim black humor, hiding place a reflection on voyeurism, the handling of the images, the kindness of the teams of turning. However, it is not inevitably the acknowledged goal of this film which remains a moment of entertainment first of all. Attention nevertheless with certain image-shocks which will mark the spirits (very hard scene of the rape in particular to the 1st degree). At worst brutalities follow one another of the scenes more cocasses allowing the spectator to blow and to put back the meninges vis-a-vis these atrocities. Completely immoral, It arrived close to on your premise is made conspicuous by the joke and it is perhaps in this direction that this film should be taken.

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Benoit Poelvoorde: Ben
  • Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert: the mother of Ben
  • Nelly Pappaert: the grandmother of Ben
  • Hector Pappaert: the grandfather of Ben
  • Jenny Drye: Jenny
  • Malou Madou: Malou
  • Willy Vandenbroeck : Boby
  • Rachel Deman : Granny Tromblon
  • Andre Laime: old man allity
  • Edith Lemerdy: nurse
  • Sylviane Godé: violated woman (Martine)
  • Zoltan Tobolik: husband of the violated woman
  • Valerie Relative: Valerie
  • Alexandra Fandango: Kalifa
  • Olivier Cotica: Bénichou
  • Rémy Belvaux : Remy (journalist)
  • Andre Bonzel: Andre (cameraman)
  • Jean-Marc Chenut: Patrick (taking of sound n° 1)
  • Alain Oppezzi: Free (taking of sound n° 2)
  • Vincent Tavier: Vincent (taking of sound n° 3)
  • David Gouyon: Victim (not credited with the credits)

Around film

  • This film is the first of Benoît Poelvoorde, which was not intended for a career of actor.
  • the first version was in the beginning the film of end of studies of Rémy Belvaux with INSAS, school Belgian of cinema. Additional sequences were turned thereafter to lengthen its duration and to make possible an exit into the room.
  • By lack of means, the film was turned in black and white, 16 mm (inflated in 35 mm for its Cannes-native presentation) and much of “actors” played free (the mother and grandparents of Benoit in their own roles).
  • the family members of Benoit knew very few things about the contents of film when their scenes were turned.
  • the scene of the rape (where the protagonists unload in middle of the night to rape a poor woman before killing her like her husband, while singing “It merrily is the night round! ”), filmed crûment and without taboo, was cut several exported versions, in particular of the version intended for the E. - U., in order to avoid the censure.
  • the original poster showed tétine which squirted of a puddle pool of blood. On the French poster tétine was replaced by a denture.

Quotations

Film

  • Examples of poems worships extracted film:
“Pigeon!
Bird with the gray dress,
In the hell of the
cities To my glance, you conceal yourself,
You are really nimblest. ”

Or:

“With the flying fish And wave And North Sea
Along the clear gulfs
dodues
to stop the
waves, flying like seagulls.
And of the plankton, you want some, in here are
And of red salmons emerging from beyond!
And the bitter jellyfishes
And the algae crimsons
And let us goëmons them of winter
Nothing… not nothing will not prevent me from quoting your name
Mer! Sea! cruel bitter mantle and water which (…) ” (following what he vomits)

and finally: " And you Gabin, wire of Lucien, the cinema made of you, a good kid " Cinema, Cinéma"

Press

  • “Finally a film which weighs, chopping the virtue of pieces, fouaillant délicieusement our nerves and our brain. A pure delight antimédias, zigzaging at the borders of morals, sinks to make fear, cruel, disgusting, to die of laughing. A fairy tale for time incrédule. But without fairies. The ogre is king. ” ( Current , October 1992)
  • “It is a virtual violence for true confessions of barjot which, blunting a little at the distance, find their jovial safety in an complete absence of claim. This film does not piss very high but always at the good place, there, in our stoups. ” ( Release , August 11th, 1992)

  • “By want to be everywhere, at the same time in film and at side, as ironic commentators, they end up being nowhere. In this invading absence, one has a presentiment of something of immonde” ( Le Monde , November 6th, 92)

  • “One sees nothing any more but one band of hilarious schoolkids who turn in round with their provoc easy and are vautrent in wee-excrement-vomit.” ( Télérama , November 11th, 92)

Cocktail Small Gregory

At one time the killer invites the reporters about it making a film, with drinking a drink-play made up of a tear of gin, of a river of tonic, an olive, a small piece of sugar and of a short period of string, called the Petit Gregory, the first at which Gregory (the olive) goes up must pay the addition and drink its coktail dry Cul.

Distinctions

  • official Selection in competition with the Cannes festival 1992
  • price SACD week of criticism
  • the international prize of criticism
  • the special price of youth

See too

  • False documentary, Hoax which while having the appearance of a truth Documentaire presents a fictitious history or defends an eccentric thesis.

External bond

  • Card IMDb

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