Jericho Mansions (2003)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Alberto Sciamma

Writers:

Harriet Sand (writer)
Alberto Sciamma (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.

Plot Keywords:

Superintendent | Murder Investigation | Husband Wife Relationship | Agoraphobia | Partial Female Nudity

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

James Caan	...	Leonard Grey
Geneviève Bujold	...	Lily Melnick
Jennifer Tilly	...	Donna Cherry
Maribel Verdú	...	Dolores O'Donell
Peter Keleghan	...	Bill Cherry
Pierre Rioux	...	Robert Melnick
Bruce Ramsay	...	Eugene O'Donnell
Susan Glover	...	Valda
Mark Camacho	...	Gilbert
Victoria Jane Allen	...	Holly
Joe Cobden	...	Vikes
David Gow	...	Slasey
John Bourgeois	...	Detective Carp
David Attis	...	Big Belly
Roseanne Maloney	...	Female Singer
Charles S. Doucet	...	Garbage Man (as Charles Doucet)
Conrad Pla	...	Cordero
Lenie Scoffié	...	Bettina
Martin Thibaudeau	...	Young Leonard
Johanne McKay	...	Young Lily
Charles Edwin Powell	...	Young Robert (as Charles Powell)
Darrell Mesheau	...	Medical Examiner
Frank Gomes	...	Hotel Employee
Jean-Marc Félio	...	Hotel Manager
Stephen Coats	...	Priest
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jesus Coso	...	Cowboy #1
Dani Vabre	...	Cowboy #2
Paul Vega	...	Indian on Horseback
Antonio Wilford	...	Director

Directed by
Alberto Sciamma

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Harriet Sand		writer
Alberto Sciamma		writer

Produced by
Eduardo Carneros	....	line producer: Spain
Michael Cowan	....	producer (as Michael Lionello Cowan)
Jean-Marc Félio	....	producer
Peter James	....	executive producer
Suzanne Lyons	....	executive producer
Alex Marshall	....	executive producer
Alex Marshall	....	executive producer
Michel Mosca	....	executive producer
Thomas G. Philpott	....	co-producer
Jason Piette	....	producer
Kate Robbins	....	executive producer
James Simpson	....	executive producer
Donald Tetreault	....	assistant line producer
Carole Vaillancourt	....	line producer
Jonathan Vanger	....	executive producer
Jan H. Vocke	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Dan Jones

Cinematography by
Alastair Meux

Film Editing by
Yves Langlois

Casting by
Rosina Bucci
Nyanne Jassim

Production Design by
Richard Tassé

Set Decoration by
Faye Cameron
Guillermo Llaguno

Costume Design by
Chris J. O'Neil

Makeup Department
Antoine Bergeron	....	key hair stylist
Sophie Lebeau	....	key makeup artist
Madeleine Raiche	....	assistant hair stylist
Charo Romero	....	makeup artist: Spain
Manuela Romero	....	makeup artist: Spain
Bianca Vaillancourt	....	assistant makeup artist

Production Management
Jacquie Anderson	....	unit manager
Marcelle Cadieux	....	post-production supervisor
Tony Collier	....	assistant unit manager
Mel Hider	....	post-production supervisor: UK
Hector López	....	second assistant production manager
Bea Revilla	....	production manager: Spain (as Beatriz Revilla)
Donald Tetreault	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Monica Albacete	....	co-second assistant director: Spain
José Manuel Benayas	....	first assistant director: Spain
Randy Cable	....	trainee assistant director
Robert Cotterill	....	third assistant director
Shawn Pegg	....	second assistant director
Rob Urquhart	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Tim Allen	....	assistant decorator
Alain Cadieux	....	assistant art director
Shelia Cameron	....	painter
S. Wayne Clark	....	painter
Rayray Conley	....	carpenter
Gary Davidson	....	painter
Gary Allen Ferguson	....	property master
Raúl Fernández	....	property master: Spain
Pascal Frenette	....	assistant art director
Raymond Gendron	....	storyboard artist
April Goguen	....	painter
Ronny Gosselin	....	model maker
Bill Halpin	....	carpenter
Heidi Henstridge	....	property assistant
Jose Holder	....	storyboard artist
Michel Holleran	....	assistant property master
Rafe Hooper	....	carpenter
Frank Johnston	....	carpenter
James Kennedy	....	on-set dresser
Louise Makovsky	....	art department coordinator
John Millett	....	carpenter
Bob Morgan	....	graphics
Stephen Morgan	....	construction coordinator
Hugh Nimmons	....	graphics
Emy Sciamma	....	props
Irene Sciamma	....	props
Carol-Ann Smith	....	key scenic painter
Gerald Welton	....	swing

Sound Department
Norman Bernard	....	boom operator
Kevin Brazier	....	adr editor
Kevin Brazier	....	dialogue editor
Robert Brazier	....	sound assistant (as Rob Brazier)
Steve Cook	....	sound supervisor
Colin Cooper	....	foley mixer
Alan Freedman	....	adr mixer
Diane Greaves	....	foley artist
Alex Hudd	....	stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Blair Jollands	....	sound effects editor
Louis Marion	....	sound recordist
Peter Maxwell	....	sound re-recording mixer
Kath Pollard	....	assistant sound re-recording mixer
Jack Stew	....	foley artist
Ted Swanscott	....	adr mixer
Trevor Swanscott	....	foley editor

Special Effects by
Remi Cosgrove	....	special effects assistant
Ryal Cosgrove	....	special effects director
Mike Cozens	....	special effects assistant
Gary Allen Ferguson	....	mechanical effects
Marc Reichel	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Vicci Allen	....	digital production coordinator
Marijose Auclair	....	digital compositor
Stephane 'Bal' Barbin	....	digital previz
Audrey Boivin	....	visual effects coordinator
Shawn Bonkowski	....	motion control operator
Michel Bougie	....	prosthetic crew
Gary J. Brown	....	Inferno artist
Nicolas Cadorette	....	digital effects artist
Marc Cote	....	visual effects supervisor
Daniel Coupal	....	digital compositor
Frederick Gaudreau	....	digital previz (as Frédric Gaudreault)
John Hinchliffe	....	digital production coordinator
Antoine Isabelle	....	digital compositor
Guillaume Isabelle	....	digital effects artist
Alain Lachance	....	digital compositor
Virginie Lamotte	....	digital compositor
Yannick Leblanc	....	technical director
Giles Livesey	....	digital film colorist
Jocelyn Maher	....	digital compositor
Marc Morissette	....	lead digital compositor
Patrick Plourde	....	digital previz
Luke Poudrier	....	prosthetic crew
Sylvain Theroux	....	digital effects artist
Eric Thivierge	....	prosthetic crew
Jonathan Veltman	....	digital effects artist
Leigh Warner	....	Inferno artist
Olivier Xavier	....	visual effects prosthetics

Stunts
Alexandre Cadieux	....	stunts
Marc Désourdy	....	stunt coordinator
Jere Gillis	....	stunts
Patrick Kerton	....	stunts
Karine Lemieux	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Luis Ayala	....	electrician: Spain
Louis Boudreau	....	grip
Yvan Bourdages	....	Steadicam operator
Yvan Bourdages	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Jonathan Caron	....	second assistant camera
Stéphane Caron	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Patricia Charlin	....	video assistant: Spain
Maxime Cloutier	....	motion control grip
Donald Cyr	....	electrician
Christian Genest	....	electrician
Juan Gonzalez Guerrero	....	assistant gaffer
Robert Grenier	....	motion control key grip
Edgar Harris	....	electrician
Mark Hemmings	....	still photographer
Serge Hughes	....	second assistant camera
Maarten Kroonenburg	....	first assistant camera
Bruce A. Kyle	....	electrician
Alain Lacroix	....	electrician
Martin Landry	....	grip
Serge Larouche	....	electrician
Juan Leyva	....	focus puller: Spain
Aaron Lopez	....	clapper loader: Spain
Richard MacQueen	....	electric trainee
Julien Maisonneuve	....	motion control grip
Mike McDonald	....	dolly grip
Mike McDonald	....	key grip
Scott McRae	....	best boy electric
Carlos Melville	....	gaffer: Spain
Bill Muloin	....	gaffer
Alex Narváez	....	electrician: Spain
Denis Paquette	....	gaffer
Dean Roberts	....	best boy grip
Kevin Rudge	....	first assistant camera
Michel Trudeau	....	generator operator
James Wilson	....	grip
Clayton Young	....	grip: Spain
Robert Zimmerman	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Mamen Moya	....	casting: Spain
Pilar Moya	....	casting assistant: Spain
Christopher J. O'Neil	....	casting manager
Phoebe Scholfield	....	voice casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Mari Carmen Alemán	....	wardrobe assistant: Spain
Andrew Barnes	....	costume supervisor
Regina Fahrenbach	....	assistant wardrobe master
Brenda McLeese	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Linda Bourgeois	....	negative cutter
Jim Campabanal	....	negative cutter
Geneviève Duffault	....	post-production coordinator (as Geneviève Dufault)
Mel Hider	....	post-production coordinator
Arthur Montreuil	....	color timer
Andrew Tidby	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Rafael Arnau	....	composer: theme music
Christopher Austin	....	conductor
Peter Clarke	....	music editor
Elizabeth Purnell	....	orchestrator
Stephen Selby	....	music preparation
Gary Thomas	....	music mixer

Transportation Department
Rod Ernest	....	picture car coordinator
David MacDonald	....	assistant picture car coordinator

Other crew
Jim Archer	....	projectionist
Mari Arnedo	....	location manager: Spain
Guy Aumond	....	production accountant
Christine Barclay	....	script supervisor
Shirine Best	....	development assistant: UK
Kendra Black	....	assistant to producer
Kendra Black	....	unit publicist
Angeles Cedeira Damil	....	assistant: Ms. Verdu
Isabel De la Cal	....	production secretary: Spain
Sylvie Doiron	....	animal wrangler
Cindy D'Orsay	....	assistant production coordinator (as Cindy Springer)
Ian Edgar	....	production assistant: dailies
Joaquin 'Tate' Fernández	....	production assistant: Spain
Nic Foley	....	studio assistant
Paul 'The Brain' Gagnon	....	technical services
Michelle Hebert	....	set production assistant
Teri Jensen	....	travel coordinator
Emily Kyriakides	....	assistant to producer: UK
Dominique LaFrance	....	production accountant
Jesse MacLean	....	office production assistant
Tim O'Neil	....	production assistant: dailies
Jean-François Perrier	....	craft service
Manon Proulx	....	production accountant
Sylvain Proulx	....	administrator
Todd Remete	....	production assistant
Christa Scott	....	assistant: Mr. Caan
Lucy Shuttleworth	....	development executive: UK
Victorine Tamafo	....	production coordinator
Kiki Tanfara	....	production assistant: dailies
John Tate	....	title designer
Rick Turner	....	production assistant
Dominique Villeneuve	....	craft service
Clive Waldron	....	production accountant: UK
Ellie Walker	....	scheduler

Production Companies

• Milagro Films
• Movision
• Spice Factory

Distributors

• Equinox Films
• EuroVideo (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• Monarch Home Video
• Vine International Pictures
• Visual Filmes (2007) (Brazil) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Camera e-Motion (motion control)
• Cinefects
• Fake Pictures (digital effects)

Other Companies

• Angel Recording Studios  music recorded at
• Elite Casting  casting
• Future Post  sound post-production
• Gearbox Sound and Vision  additional ProTools systems supplied by
• Global Music Service  music copyist
• Offline Editing Company, The  editing facilities
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The  orchestra
• Widget Post Production  sound post-production

Also Known As:

House of Jericho (Europe: English title) (DVD box title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, sexuality and drug use.

Runtime:

Canada:98 min (Montréal World Film Festival)

Country:

Canada | UK

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Canada:18A (Ontario) | USA:R | Norway:15

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Milagro Films

Movie Connections:

References Rosemary's Baby (1968)

There seems to be several pieces missing in this puzzle.

There seems to be several pieces missing in this puzzle. A phone call from a sister intensifies a landlady's inexplicable mistreatment of her slow agoraphobic building superintendent. The butt of jokes among the local cops, she once again accuses him of theft but nothing is ever found. But after thirty years, the super's confusing dreams of what appears to be a bad spaghetti western suddenly come into focus when he becomes the focal point of a brutal murder. Has he murdered someone while sleepwalking? The tenants bear witness to his wild swings of passivity and passion.

Wildly confusing at times, it all becomes crystal clear in the end when we discover why the landlady is sure the super has been stealing from her for years. When at last, he comes to understand who and what he is, will he actually know what it is he wants? When the ones who desert it, get what they deserve, will he get what he wants and deserves? For those who willing pay attention and stick this movie out, they will enjoy having all their questions answered.