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The Collector
The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year-old prostitute, Grégoire, a young man who became her friend. But when the teenager decides to invite a 12-year-old boy who is running away from home, Maud is near illegality. In addition, the detective has to deal with a serial killer who had already killed and mutilated many women. When she understands that the killer is very intelligent and organized, she elaborates a strategy to arrest him. There starts a dangerous game where the two teenagers that Graham is protecting will be implied. The killer is getting closer, revealing more and more of his madness.
| Release : | 2002 |
| Rating : | 6 |
| Studio : | Chrystal Films, |
| Crew : | Director, Adaptation, |
| Cast : | Luc Picard Maude Guérin Lawrence Arcouette Charles-André Bourassa Yves Jacques |
| Genre : | Thriller |
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Reviews
Such a frustrating disappointment
Simply A Masterpiece
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Blistering performances.
In Quebec, a serial killer kills, rapes and takes parts of his victims in this sequence. The Detective Maude Graham (Maude Guérin), a lonely woman and very efficient detective, is in charge of the investigation. She uses the media to tease the criminal, and acts like a bait to find the unknown assassin. "Le Collectionneur" is a good Canadian thriller. The story and the characters are very well constructed, and Luc Picard is excellent in the role of a deranged serial killer. I regret only that the VHS distributed in Brazil is (horribly) dubbed in English. I do not understand why the distributor spoils many films with dubbed copies. They claim that there are many illiterate people, who do not know or have difficulties to read the subtitles, but anyway speaking is part of the acting and therefore is unacceptable such a procedure of dubbing the original language. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Colecionador" ("The Collector")
The film The film itself is a very interesting approach to the thriller genre.Just when I thought I had seen them all (psycho killer vsdetective), this film came to remind some can always improvethings. Instead of pure suspense/action, the film opens many sub- plots that brings an extra to the main plot and characters. It's amust see for amateurs of the genre and fans of Luc Picard. Actorsare great as well as the filmography.The DVD What really annoyed me was the DVD version itself. The film ispresented in an anamorphic (2:35:1) format. Wow. Oh, it's verycrisp. But the whole film is shrinked !! It is so annoying I couldn'tfollow the story by times. Actors look small and fat, objects are alldeformed, the whole experience is ruined. This is a truly amateur- ish kind of mistake, one that cannot be explained coming fromChrystal Films and a 5$million dollar production. Thank god I sawit at the theater.Bottom line If you wanna rent the film, it's better to rent the VHS. It won't bedistorted and shrinked. Extras on the 2nd disc are nice though.
so I and my girlfriend saw this movie together and we found this story very original. Everybody can like this movie because it is not difficult to understand but it's different of other movie. This thriller is a good story of "Christine Brouillette" who write the book of this story and "Jean Baudin" who have made the movie. "Maude Graham" is a very original character play very well by "maude Guerin". This is a very good Quebec movie better than any American movie. So the story talk about hard subject like homosexual prostitute but is right. So the note for le collectionneur are 68%. thank you...
Who said that a movie with a budget smaller than 10 millions $ can be excellent??? Le collectionneur is one of the greatest suspence have ever seen. There is a real story beneath the serial killer and the characters seems to be somebody who could live next door. The actors have done an amazing job, especially Luc Picard and Maude Guérin as Maud Graham (the detective). Better than many american movies I've seen.
