Les Équilibristes

1991 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Romance

3
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 177 177

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Plot summary

A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic consequences when he later discards him for another youth.

Director

Nikos Papatakis Photo
Nikos Papatakis

Top cast

Polly Walker Photo
Polly Walker as Hélène Lagache
Michel Piccoli Photo
Michel Piccoli as Marcel Spadice
Doris Kunstmann Photo
Doris Kunstmann as Christa Paeffgen Aoussine
Bernard Farcy Photo
Bernard Farcy as Policier au commissariat
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1.07 GB
1204*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 59 min
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1.98 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by philosopherjack

A strange, highly iconoclastic variety of narrative and thematic divides and contrasts

Reviewed by wim-vorster 8 / 10

Indeed a tightrope

Very interesting film, not great but highly watchable, based on the post-prison life of supreme French author Jean Genet.Michel Piccoli is Marcel Spadice, the Genet-like character, who uses his friend Hélène Lagache (Polly Walker) as 'bait' to attract men. "I like real men, not queens."He is infatuated with Franz-Ali Aoussine, a mixed Arab and German youngster, who works at a circus and still lives with his mother on the outskirts of Paris. (Stunning performance by Doris Kunstman as Christa Paeffgen Aoussine )Franz-Ali has a burning ambition to become a tightrope walker and Marcel starts training him. Soon their entire existence revolves around this...There are twists and turns in ths tale and the dialogue has a distinct and sincere ring of Genet's lyrical prose. Not an all time great, but certainly worth watching
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