Ils

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465203/




Clémentine (Olivia Bonamy) is a french teacher in Rumania. She lives with Lucas, (Michaël Cohen) who is a writer, out in the countryside in this big house.
When heading home after afriday at work, Clémentine passes by a car that are being tolltrucked. The same car where a mom and her daughter has been killed in last night.

While at home she eats a dinner with Lucas and goes to bed, later that night she wakes up by some noices outsider their house, soon the noice and the ones who causes the noice are inside their house.















Ils a.k.a. Them is based on a terrifying true story about what happened to Clémentine Sauveur and Lucas Medvec. David Moreau and Xavier Palud have written and directed a lowbudget movie that was shot in 30 days.
Now movies based on actuall events can either be rally scary or they tend to be mediocer or even dumb. Also when a movie is shot in only 30 days, you might suspect that this might not be as good as you are hoping for.

The lack of blood or indirect violence also may be something that doesn´t make you wanna see ils. But, the tense - mostly to the fact that the attackers are not in the movie as much as in other horror movies makes ils a scary and intense movie. As long as you are fully aware that this is as much a first directed movie by David Moreau and
Xavier Palud as it is a sad story about what people are doing to eachother. The final shot/scene of this movie shows in some way that people sometimes can be lackning a lot of sympati for various reasons.



On the other hand, Clémentine is forced to inhale something from a plastic bag (wich I instantly was thinking - it´s glue so she will be dizzy) maby the attackers where high on sniffing glue all the time?













It is a sad sad world we live in when young people are…..

Also, I got the feeling of watching Blair witch project as I saw ils. The running in the woods and that crazy annoying sound that one of the kids makes with his toy.

So, is ils a.k.a. Them a movie that you need to see?
Maby not needed to be seen, but it is a good solid watch and it is only in 74 minutes.

Olivia Bonamy and Michaël Cohen are doing a good solid work in their roles.
Ils can be seen as a perfect (?) date movie with your girlfriend or boyfriend, ”your lover” in simplifying terms. Not so violent, not so much blood, 2 good looking acters and a tense that starts 23 minutes in the movie and last for the following 50 minutes.
Another impressive thing about ils is that it is acted out in real time, more or less.

Eskwad is the co producer of this movie. And Eskwad also is behind movies such as Irrèversible, Le pacte des loups a.k.a. Brotherhood of the wolf, Saint Ange a.k.a. House of voices wich actually was the first movie Pascal Laugier directed and later on he did Martyrs - who also is produced by Eskwad. So next time Eskwad is doing a movie… I wanna play with them.
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- Why won't you let us play?


Official Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fk_b-hKpHc

UK site where you can see Based on true events.
http://www.them-movie.com/

Eskwad site
http://www.eskwad.fr/