The Bait (1995 film)

L'Appât
Cover of French DVD edition
Directed by	Bertrand Tavernier
Produced by	Frédéric Bourboulon René Cleitman
Written by	Bertrand Tavernier Colo Tavernier
Starring	Marie Gillain Olivier Sitruk Bruno Putzulu
Music by	Philippe Haïm
Cinematography	Alain Choquart
Edited by	Luce Grunenwaldt
Production company	France 2 Cinéma Little Bear production M6 Films
Release dates	8 March 1995 (1995-03-08)
Running time	115
Country	France
Language	French

The Bait (French: L'Appât), also known as Fresh Bait,^[1]^[2] is a 1995 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier about two boys and a girl who commit a murder, with the girl acting as a 'bait'.

The film is based on the 1990 book of the same name by Morgan Sportès, which is in turn based on the "Valérie Subra affair", a true event that happened in 1984.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Cast

Marie Gillain - Nathalie
Olivier Sitruk - Eric
Bruno Putzulu - Bruno
Richard Berry - Alain
Philippe Duclos - Antoine
Marie Ravel - Karine
Clotilde Courau - Patricia
Jean-Louis Richard - the innkeeper
Christophe Odent - Laurent
Jean-Paul Comart - Michel
Philippe Héliès - Pierre
Jacky Nercessian - Monsieur Tapiro (Nathalie's boss)
Alain Sarde - Philippe
Daniel Russo - Jean-Pierre
Philippe Torreton - Chief inspector
François Berléand - Inspector Durieux

Awards

The film won the Golden Bear Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.^[6]

Gillain was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress.^[7]

References

↑ "Film File - L'appât". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
↑ "DVD Verdict Review - Fresh Bait". DVD Verdict. 12 August 2005. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
↑ lumiere.org: "Bertrand Tavernier - Partie 7" (French)
↑ nouvelobs.com (French)
↑ blog.lemonde.fr (French)
↑ "Berlinale: 1995 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
↑ "21ème Cérémonie des César". Le Cinéma français. Retrieved 6 January 2016.

External links

The Bait at the Internet Movie Database
The Bait at AllMovie

Films directed by Bertrand Tavernier

Let Joy Reign Supreme The Clockmaker The Judge and the Assassin Spoiled Children A Week's Vacation Death Watch Coup de Torchon A Sunday in the Country Round Midnight Beatrice Life and Nothing But Daddy Nostalgie The Bait Captain Conan It All Starts Today Safe Conduct Holy Lola In the Electric Mist The Princess of Montpensier The French Minister

Golden Bear-winning films

Four in a Jeep (1951)
Without Leaving an Address (1951)
In Beaver Valley (1951)
Justice Is Done (1951)
Cinderella (1951)
One Summer of Happiness (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Die Ratten (1955)
Invitation to the Dance (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960)
La Notte (1961)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
To Bed or Not to Bed (1963)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Dry Summer (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
The Departure (1967)
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Early Works (1969)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Distant Thunder (1973)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Adoption (1975)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
The Ascent (1977)
Ascensor (1978)
Las truchas (1978)
What Max Said (1978)
David (1979)
Heartland (1980)
Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Ascendancy (1983)
La colmena (1983)
Love Streams (1984)
The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
Wetherby (1985)
Stammheim (1986)
The Theme (1987)
Red Sorghum (1988)
Rain Man (1989)
Music Box (1990)
Larks on a String (1990)
The House of Smiles (1991)
Grand Canyon (1992)
Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
In the Name of the Father (1994)
The Bait (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997)
Central Station (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1999)
Magnolia (2000)
Intimacy (2001)
Spirited Away (2002)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
In This World (2003)
Head-On (2004)
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
Grbavica (2006)
Tuya's Marriage (2007)
Elite Squad (2008)
The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
Honey (2010)
A Separation (2011)
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Child's Pose (2013)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Taxi (2015)
Fire at Sea (2016)

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