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 Cartel de la película | |
| Dirigido por | Yves Robert |
| Producido por | Danièle Delorme Xavier Gelin Yves Robert Fideline Films Les Productions de La Guéville |
| Escrito por | Donald Westlake (novela) Élisabeth Rappeneau |
| Residencia en | Two Much de Donald E. Westlake |
| Protagonizada | Pierre Richard Camilla More Carey Más |
| Narrado por | Pierre Richard |
| Musica por | Vladimir Cosma |
| Cinematografía | Jean Harnois |
| Editado por | Pierre Gillette |
| Distribuido por | AAA Roissy Films |
| Fecha de lanzamiento | 10 de octubre de 1984 (Francia) 19 de diciembre de 1985 (Alemania Occidental) |
| Tiempo de ejecución | 104 min |
| País | Francia |
| Idioma | francés |
The Twin (en francés : Le jumeau ) es una película de comedia francesa de 1984 dirigida por Yves Robert , protagonizada por Pierre Richard , Camilla More y Carey More . [1] Basada enla novela Two Much de Donald Westlake , la historia involucra a un francés endeudado que conoce a un par de hermosas y ricas hermanas gemelas estadounidenses. Al inventar un hermano gemelo, logra casarse con ambos y vivir su opulento estilo de vida.
Su remake estadounidense / español Two Much , protagonizado por Antonio Banderas y Melanie Griffith , fue lanzado en 1995.
Plot[edit]
Owner of a struggling business in Paris, Matthias Duval stakes all he has in a game of poker and loses. At a party he meets a beautiful young American, Liz, and they soon end up in bed. Next morning she says that she has a twin called Betty, to which he jokes that he has a twin called Mathieu. When he meets Betty, she says she must meet his brother. Creating a different persona as “Mathieu”, he starts romancing Betty as well. What he does not know is that each sister must get married by the end of the year or she will lose her share of the fortune left by their parents. The lawyer in charge of the estate, Volpinex, warns Matthias to stay away from them.
Betty marries “Mathieu” secretly, and next morning as Matthias he decides he must break with Liz. She convinces him to get engaged to her by the promise of 4,000 dollars a month plus sexual freedom. Using the latter clause, in persona as Matthias he spends a night with Liz. She flies him to the USA to marry him there. Matthias then leaves Liz to go on an imaginary business trip to Japan, while “Mathieu” joins his wife Betty and her lonely sister in an isolated seaside house they own,
When the twins are out one night, the lawyer Volpinex appears. He has solid evidence that there is only one Matthias, who has married bigamously to defraud the parents' estate. In a struggle, Volpinex is accidentally shot and a fire accidentally started. “Mathieu” disppears, learning from the radio that the police believe the charred corpse to be his and that Volpinex, who has disppeared, must be the murderer. Hastily returning from Japan, Matthias resumes relations with his wife Liz and comforts the bereaved Betty. In fact, the girls knew of his duplicity all along and are happy to live as a ménage à trois.
Cast[edit]
- Pierre Richard as Matthias Duval/"Matthieu Duval"
- Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Ernest Volpinex
- Camilla More as Betty Kerner
- Carey Moreas Liz Kerner
- Jacques Frantz as Ralph
- Françoise Dorner as Marie
- Andréa Ferréol as Evie
- Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Charlie
- Paul Le Person as the beggar
- Isabelle Strawa as Nikki
- Yves Robert as a man in the elevator (cameo appearance)
References[edit]
- ^ "The Twin". unifrance.org. Retrieved 13 May 2019. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
External links[edit]
- The Twin at IMDb
- Review at Films de France
- Trailer at Commeaucimena.com
