#Anne Charpin

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Latour, la maison qui court

Latour, la maison qui court

À la maison beaunoise Louis Latour, on aime tellement courir qu’une bonne partie des collaborateurs est membre de l’association sportive de l’entreprise.

Par Patrice Bouillot Pour DBM78 Photos Louis Latour

Voilà près de vingt ans qu’il existe une association sportive au sein de la maison Louis Latour. Au début de l’histoire, c’était l’équipe de football composée de salariés de l’entreprise.…

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Fabulous rec

In reference to this ask and then this one, I watched the French movie The Flower of Evil (La fleur du mal). It's a drama from 2003 about a wealthy family with a lot of secrets.

We're introduced to the blended Charpin-Vasseur family. Gerard, the father, is a philanderer who doesn't approve of his wife's political career. She's running for mayor. He has married his brother's widow, Anne, and is a widower himself. He has a son, Francois, from his first marriage, who has just returned from spending several years in the US, and Anne has a daughter from her first marriage, Michele. So Francois and Michele are both stepsiblings and first cousins. And they're in love!

But there's more!

Michele's father and Francois' mother were killed in a car crash together. (I'm not sure how old the kids were – old enough to remember them but still pretty young.) We learn that they were having an affair. And Francois quite literally overheard his mother tell Gerard that he wasn't Francois' father. So, like the anon in the ask said, it's strongly implied that Michele's father, Gerard's brother, Anne's first husband, is actually Francois' father too, and that he and Michele are half-siblings.

But there's more!

It's kind of hard to describe the plot of the movie. We're at the climax of Anne's campaign for mayor. Someone has put out a leaflet airing the family's dirty laundry and the kids suspect it may have been Gerard. The movie is also about Francois' homecoming. But I think the big idea here is that this family seems cursed to repeat the past.

The family tree still isn't totally clear to me. And I was paying such close attention! But there's a character, Aunt Line (short for Micheline), who I think is Anne's aunt. She was acquitted of murdering her own father, but is still strongly suspected of having done it. So the family in the present is really just the five of them – Gerard, Anne, Aunt Line, and Francois and Michele. Aunt Line is everyone's favorite, and is a sweet lady. But she confesses to Michele that she did kill her father. She had several reasons to hate him, because he worked with the Nazis during WWII and did some really horrible things. But the main reason seems to be that he allowed his son, Line's brother, to die when he joined the resistance. It's not fully explained but it's implied there's something he could have done to stop it. So Line was avenging her brother, who was also named Francois. But more importantly, we learn that Line and Francois were in love. She says that he loved her as much as she loved him. She tells this to Michele.

And then at the climax of the movie, Gerard is drunk and comes on to Michele. I'm pretty sure she's his niece but that's never commented on. He's really aggressive and she ends up hitting him with a lamp and I think he hits the corner of the desk on his way down and his killed. So Line helps Michele arrange the scene and is going to take the fall for it. We don't really see the consequences of all that. But anyway, we see the repetition in the family – another Francois, another father murdered, another incestuous set of siblings. That was my take, anyway.

Unfortunately we don't see Line and Francois, it's just older Line talking about it.

The main reason I'm confused about the family tree is because I felt like it was implied that the Charpins and the Vasseurs have intermarried before? Maybe not. But Francois says something about Charpins always loving Vasseurs, or vice verse.

This is a tough gray area, because we can't say for sure 100% that they're half-siblings, but it's certainly STRONGLY implied. I think I'll just run with it and say that they are.

The Francois/Michele romance is truly a beautiful thing. They're totally in love and supportive of each other, and it's a really big part of the movie. Francois tells her that he has loved her since he was 13. He left for the US in part because of her, and she says she tried to date while he was gone but only wanted him. But they don't get together until the events of the movie, it was always just understood but not acted on. They're not very discreet.

Anne might be too busy to notice, but everyone else knows they're together. His arm is basically always around her, and hours after he gets home the two of them run off to Aunt Line's beach house for the weekend.

Also, I didn't know that lamprey was a dish. They eat it at the beginning of the movie. You learn something every day.

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Février MMXXII

Films

Pépé le Moko (1937) de Julien Duvivier avec Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Line Noro, Lucas Gridoux, Fernand Charpin, René Bergeron et Fréhel

Le Sauvage (1975) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Luigi Vannucchi et Tony Roberts

Le Casse du siècle (2007) (Flawless) de Michael Radford avec Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker et Natalie Dormer

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Yvonne De Carlo, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Angie Dickinson, Jacqueline Bisset et Pamela Tiffin

Les Bronzés font du ski (1979) de Patrice Leconte avec Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte et Dominique Lavanant

9 Mois ferme (2015) de Albert Dupontel avec Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Uchan, Nicolas Marié, Bouli Lanners et Laure Calamy

Un jour sans fin (1993) (Groundhog Day) de Harold Ramis avec Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Shannon, Hynden Walch et Harold Ramis

La Nuit des généraux (1967) (The Night of the Generals) de Anatole Litvak avec Peter O'Toole, Philippe Noiret, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence et Joanna Pettet

Adieu ma jolie (1975) (Farewell, My Lovely) de Dick Richards avec Robert Mitchum, John Ireland, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles et Anthony Zerbe

Dernier Domicile connu (1970) de José Giovanni avec Lino Ventura, Marlène Jobert, Michel Constantin, Alain Mottet, Philippe March et Bianca Saury

Les Aventuriers (1967) de Robert Enrico avec Lino Ventura, Alain Delon, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani, Paul Crauchet et Odile Poisson

Séries

Starsky & Hutch Saison 1, 2

Capitaine Dobey, vous êtes mort ! - Terreur sur les docks - Un ami d'enfance - Monty viendra à minuit - Les otages - Poker - Le silence - Le tigre d'Omaha - La vengeance du Texan - La tempête - Avis de mort - La prime du chasseur - L'étrangleur de Las Vegas : 1ère partie - L'étrangleur de Las Vegas : 2ème partie - Une croisière mouvementée : 1ère partie - Une croisière mouvementée : 2ème partie - La fille - Chaud devant - Vampirisme - Le professionnel

Columbo Saison 2, 3

Double choc - En toute amitié - Quand le vin est tiré

Kaamelott Livre III

L’Ankou - Ablutions - La Poétique 1re partie - La Poétique 2e partie - Les Derniers Outrages - Guenièvre et Euripide - Unagi III - Le Fléau de Dieu II - Cryda de Tintagel - L’Ivresse II - Legenda - Le Renfort magique - Silbury Hill II - Le Professionnel - Les Suppléants - La Nuit du nomade - L’Assemblée des rois 1re partie - L’Assemblée des rois 2e partie - L’Arche de transport - Les Cousins - Le Trouble - Le Tournoi - La Pierre de Lune - La Pythie - Les Cheveux noirs - Dream On - Feue la poule de Guethenoc - Le Repos du guerrier II - Les Affranchis - Les Clous de la Sainte Croix - La Corne d’abondance - Morituri - Le Dialogue de paix ii - Stargate II - L’Abstinent - Aux yeux de tous II - La Potion de vérité - Le Petit Poucet - Haunted II - La Révolte II - Perceval chante Sloubi - Le Jour d’Alexandre - La Cassette II - Poltergeist - Les Paris II - Au Bonheur des Dames - Les Tourelles - Cuisine et Dépendances - Arthur sensei - Le Solitaire - Les Festivités - La Menace fantôme - La Coopération

Le Coffre à Catch

#62 : KELLY KELLY : ACTING OU AMOUR ? - #63 : Vince McMahon a-t-il un fils caché ECW? Spoiler : NON ! - #64 : CM Punk vs. Miz vs. Big Daddy V vs. Boogeyman

The Grand Tour Saison 1, 2, 4, 3

Échappée marocaine - Coup de vieux - The Grand Tour présente... La Chasse au trésor - Mozambique - Scotch Single Malt - Virée à l’Italienne - The Grand Tour présente... Lochdown - The Grand Tour présente... Seamen - La Loi du plus gros - The Grand Tour présente... Carnage à trois - Les vacances du simplet - Spéciale Colombie : Première partie - Spéciale Colombie : Deuxième partie

Alexandra Ehle Saison 3

Dans la peau

Spectacles

Georges et Margaret (1992) de Gérald Savory avec Danielle Darrieux, Jacques François, Inger Ekbom, Pierre-Arnaud Juin, Geoffroy Thiebaut, Agnès Seelinger et Olivier Rodier

Des Choses Merveilleuses (1977) de Claude Reichman avec Régine Blaess, Dominique Paturel, Michel Le Royer, Yvonne Clech et Madeleine Damien

Les 2 Vierges (1978) de Bricaire et Lasaygues avec Robert Manuel, Claude Gensac, Jacques Marin, Yves Llobregat, Arlette Didier, Christiane Muller et Catherine Lecoq

Livres

Karmina Vltima de Philippe Pratx

Astérix Tome 9 : Astérix et les Normands de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

Kaamelott Tome 1 : L'Armée du Nécromant de Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

Chinoiseries Pour O.S.S 117 de Jean Bruce

L'Archipel des Malotrus de Frédéric Dard

Un tour sur le Bolid' de Stephen King

Le Château des Carpathes de Jules Verne