The Apartment

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Runtime: 116 mins

Rated: R

Release Date: 1996

Countries: France, Spain, Italy

Languages: French

DIRECTED BY:

Gilles Mimouni

WRITTEN BY:

Gilles Mimouni

CAST INCLUDES:

Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Monica Bellucci, Sandrine Kiberlain

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

In Gilles Mimouni’s thrilling directorial debut, he explores love, lust, sabotage, and treachery through the romantic triangles of Max, played by Vincent Cassel (BLACK SWAN, MESRINE: PUBILC ENEMY NO.1), Alice, played by Romane Bohringer (L’AMORU FLOU, SAVAGE NIGHTS), and Lisa, played by Monica Bellucci (MALENA, THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS). BBC descried it as a “gorgeously wicked film that tests visceral foreplay to a near unbearable but satisfying climax.”

SYNOPSIS

Max is on his way to Tokyo. He lives in Paris and likes to flirt but has decided to get married. By chance, he seems to have seen Lisa, his greatest love, in a café. Max forgets everything, his trip to Tokyo and his fiancé. Obsessed with meeting Lisa he finds out where she lives and hides in the apartment. However, a different girl, called Alice, finds Max in the flat. Alice looks quite similar to Lisa, and they have sex. To complicate matters further, Alice is also the girlfriend of Max’s buddy Lucien and Lisa is followed by an older man.