Qui a tué Bambi? (2003)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Gilles Marchand

Writers:

Vincent Dietschy (writer)
Gilles Marchand (writer)

Release Date:

24 December 2003 (France)

Genre:

Thriller | Drama

Plot:

Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr...

Plot Keywords:

Nude Camel Toe

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Sophie Quinton	...	Isabelle / Bambi
Laurent Lucas	...	Dr. Philipp
Catherine Jacob	...	Véronique
Yasmine Belmadi	...	Sami
Michèle Moretti	...	Mme Vachon
Valérie Donzelli	...	Nathalie
Jean-Claude Jay	...	White-Haired Surgeon
Aladin Reibel	...	Fair-Headed Anaesthetist
Thierry Bosc	...	General Manager
Lucia Sanchez	...	Spanish Nurse
Fily Keita	...	Marion
Sophie Medina	...	Carole
Joséphine de Meaux	...	Dumb Nurse
Lucienne Moreau	...	Lady
Catherine Salvini	...	Instructor

Also Known As:

Fuis, Bambi, fuis (France) (working title)
Who Killed Bambi? (International: English title)

Runtime:

France:126 min (Cannes Film Festival) | Japan:125 min | USA:126 min | USA:121 min (DVD)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Germany:16 | UK:18 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Canal+

A thriller based on dialogue rather than action

Isabelle ( Sophiie Quinton) a hospital nurse not yet fully certificated suffers from dizzy spells due to an ear problem. One of the senior surgeons Dr. Philip (Laurent Lucas) calls her Bambi. A stupid remark in my opinion and not befitting his character. The hospital looks ever so hygienic with its rooms and corridors in dazzling white and the doctors and nursing staff uniformed in white, white, white! But strange events are happening in this spotless hospital...patients are waking up under anaesthesia....patients are disappearing from their beds....what has gone awry?

As events unfold Isabelle, a sweet young thing, has strong suspicions about Dr. Philip's behaviour, but she really hasn't any proof. The film mainly concerns Isabelle's attempts to solve the hospital's continuing problems. The film is well cast with Dr. Philip suitably stern, morose and unyielding and little Bambi sweet and innocent and unsure of her nursing capabilities. (She may have done better in the police force!) As a thriller there are no menacing gestures and the excitement is restricted mainly to the dialogue.

The operating theatre has an air of authenticity about it as do the surgeons and nursing staff going about their business with hyperdermic needles and scalpels. I must say I think it was amiss of the medical staff not to notice the puncture in the fresh Pentothal phials. A minor criticism perhaps. As for the disappearing patients, it is a well known fact that frustrated patients do discharge themselves on occasions at short notice.

These thrillers are often conceived in such a way with clues that deceive. Consequently, with this in mind I carefully explore the motives of each character. I regret to say that I was tricked into coming to a wrong conclusion about the perpetrator of the crimes.

If you like hospital dramas and are not booked into an operating theatre in the near future, this film is for you.