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The Tower, deadly confinement

2023-02-07T14:20:36.690Z


CRITICAL – The jack-of-all-trades Guillaume Nicloux tries his hand at horror film by imagining inhabitants trapped in a building. A radical vision that suffers from its darkness.


Funny zebra, this Guillaume Nicloux.

A dozen feature films in thirty years that seem to go in all directions and in all genres.

Polar (

Le Poulpe

,

A Private Affair

,

This Woman

,

La Clef

), comedy (

Holiday

), adaptation of Diderot (

La Religieuse

, with Isabelle Huppert) and Grangé (

Le Concile de pierre

, with Monica Bellucci and Catherine Deneuve) , war film (

The Ends of the World

, with Gaspard Ulliel), Nicloux is not afraid of anything.

The proof, he directed Michel Houellebecq several times, in his own role or as boss of the DST (

L'Enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq

,

L'Affaire Gordji: Histoire d'une cohabitation

), and Gérard Depardieu (

Valley of love

,

The End

), and even the two in bathrobes in the same film (

Thalasso

).

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While waiting for

La Petite

, with Fabrice Luchini, Nicloux signs

La Tour

, a fantastic film without movie stars but with the rapper Hatik.

One fine morning, or perhaps one night (6 a.m. to be precise), the residents of a high-rise apartment building find themselves…

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Source: lefigaro

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