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Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Aumont
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Half a Chance |
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HALF A CHANCE (Une chance sur deux) is a French movie co-written and directed by Patrice Leconte in 1997.
Alice, 20 years old, just got out of prison. Her mother, before dying at the hospital, recorded a tape explaining to Alice that her father is either Léo Brassac (Belmondo) or Julien Vignal (Delon). Alice decides to meet them both, steals a car and drives to the French Riviera.
Alice and her fathers get along well until the day Alice steals the car of a Russian mobster. Unfortunately for our heroes, there was a wallet containing 50 million dollars, the loot of a drug deal, hidden in the boot. While the money is discreetly recovered by a policeman, without anybody noticing it, the Russians bad guys start to threaten Léo and Julien who, not at all intimidated, fight back.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Half a Chance |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- being chased by crooks who want treasure/$$$$
Criminal enemy is...
- drug dealers
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- long, straight (woman)
Body type
- skinny (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
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