Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a government office is easy. When her husband is laid off and she wonders for how long, her office pal Jackie recommends Alban, a psychic (and compulsive gambler), who promptly tells Chantel of a curse on her that will take three sessions (and 10,000 FF) to dispel. Through happenstance, she meets Alban's half-brother; thinking she is following the psychic predictions, she tries to start an affair with him. She also undergoes Alban's exorcism, and soon, terrible things indeed start to happen. Is there any way out of her misery?
Acting
Emmanuelle Béart commits to increasingly unhinged decisions.
Writing
The scam logic is frustratingly believable.
Director
Éric Fourniols
Emmanuelle Béart
Chantal
Dieudonné
Alban
Anémone
Anémone
Zinedine Soualem
Roland
Valérie Bonneton
Agnès
Olivier Claverie
Robert
Vincent Moscato
Sahuc
Anne Le Ny
Mme Clédes
Agathe Teyssier
Catherine
Serge Hazanavicius
Frédéric
Candide Sanchez
Frère Bernard
Thierry Gimenez
Thillet
Marie Le Cam
La jeune fille rousse
Mathilde Vitry
La maîtresse d'Alban
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 10,000 franc fee and government office setting capture very specific late-90s French middle-class malaise.
Dieudonné was already controversial in 2001; casting him as a predatory psychic adds accidental meta-weight.
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