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Wild Games (1995)
Director: Benoît Lamy
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Featuring Wemba (from Lamy's earlier La Vie est belle) as the lament-singing janitor, this slightly clunking, though well-shot, lift drama sees advertising ace Bohringer caught between floors in an old elevator. He is at turns taunted, neglected or seduced by haughty, recently widowed Lemper in semi-vamp get-up, a possible crazy suicide living in a neighbouring flat. Unconvincing, psychologically or dramatically, this adaptation of a novel by Henri-Frédéric Blanc is neither droll nor satiric enough to get us through the rather obvious mechanics of the sexual role-reversal game play.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Benoît Lamy
Producer: Alfred Hürmer, Jacques Perrin, Jacqueline Pierreux, Dagmar Jacobson
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Ute Lemper, Papa Wemba, Jacqueline Nicolas, Roland Depauw full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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