Sotto falso nome (2004)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Roberto Andò

Writers:

Roberto Andò (scenario) and
Salvatore Marcarelli (scenario)

Release Date:

27 February 2004 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire. |

Plot Keywords:

Writer | Letter | Unfaithful Wife | Older Man Younger Woman | Author

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Daniel Auteuil	...	Daniel
Greta Scacchi	...	Nicoletta
Anna Mouglalis	...	Milla
Giorgio Lupano	...	Fabrizio
Magdalena Mielcarz	...	Ewa (as Magda Mielcarz)
Michael Lonsdale	...	David Ginsberg
Serge Merlin	...	Le père de Daniel
François Germond	...	Maître Selogmann
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Laure Brosson
Vlastimil Canek
Izabella Dziarska
Salvatore Ferraro
Georges Guerreiro
Joelle Mnouchkine
David O'Kelly
Gabriela Pejchakova
Daniel Pietrucha
Jerzy Rogulski
Gianni Sanseverino
Vincent Serez
Frederique Smetanova
Bartek Sozanski

Also Known As:

Strange Crime (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)
Le prix du désir (France)
Under a False Name (International: English title)
Uno strano crimine (Italy) (working title)

Runtime:

France:105 min

Country:

France | Switzerland | Italy

Language:

Italian | French | Polish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | South Korea:18 | Italy:T | Singapore:R21 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Geneva, Canton Geneva, Switzerland

Company:

Vision Productions

Original and involving

"Le prix du désir" is a very interesting movie shot between France, Switzerland, Italy and Poland. It's not an action movie at all, and the story is strong and passionating.

A French-Polish writer goes to Italy for the wedding of his son. During the travel he meets a gorgeous girl, with whom he lives an adventure. The day after he discovers that she's the woman who is going to marry his son... But it's not all. Someone threatens him to reveal the truth about his writing career -actually he stole a manuscript of a dead friend writer and published it with his own name. That allowed him a brilliant career...

The story is interesting because it shows a series of situations where the change of name and lies are dominant. We see the destruction of a man and of his fame -with inexorability his own certainties fall down.

It's interesting to see that the titles of this Italian-French production don't mean the same thing. In French the film is called "Le prix du désir", in English we can translate it with "The price of desire". In Italian the title is instead "Sotto falso nome" (in English something like "With a false name"). I don't know why the titles are so different...

But each shows a theme of the film. Actually the man pays a price for the desire, because his misfortune begins with the love story with his son's wife. Furthermore, as I said, the fact of changing name of people and things is a way of hiding the truth -and it happens often in the movie, it's a recurrent theme in the story.

Italian movie-maker Roberto Andò directs the movie with smoothness and confidence. The cast is strong: French actor Daniel Auteuil is excellent in his portrait of the writer (the character has also something very treacherous); Greta Scacchi is his wife and Anna Mouglalis is the sexy girl who makes him fall into disgrace.