Caro's Pick: The Nest with Outstanding Jude Law -
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Jude Law brilliantly plays an ambitious broker who gradually terrorizes his wife in "The Nest".
Carrie Coon stands up to him with talent in the role of his wife.
This thriller won over juries and press at the last Deauville festival.
He is as sexy as he is disturbing.
Jude Law impresses in
The Nest
, a thriller by Sean Durkin awarded with three prizes (Grand Prix, Critics' prize and Revelation prize) at the last Deauville festival and available from Wednesday on Canal Play.
The actor plays an ambitious broker who chooses to move his little American family to an old English mansion.
What anguish his wife (played by Carrie Coon, remarkable) and his very young son when they begin to think that he has lost his mind.
“I owe my prizes to my actors who have transcended this story by passing all the nuances of complex characters,” the director confides to
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.
Also known for the bewitching
Martha, Marcy, May Marlene
, Sean Durkin pushes heroes and situations that one might think are archetypal to the fullest in order to surprise the viewer.
"Jude plays a typical 1980s businessman who has become unstable by ambition and Carrie his American wife lost in a country she does not know," he says.
My goal in confronting them was to show the nightmare that an ordinary family can fall into.
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Stone suspense
The mansion lost in the countryside which serves as a backdrop to this intimate suspense is exploited in its every nook and cranny by the filmmaker.
"These old stones have their importance in the way the actions of the characters are perceived by the public," he admits.
The behavior of Jude Law's is made more threatening within the walls of this hovel.
This man with teeth that scratch the marquetry floors is so firmly planted that we do not regret sharing his nest.
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