RAPT Festival Selection: Greece French Film Festival (2010), Istanbul International Film Festival (2010), New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Today (2010), Rotterdam International Film Festival, Spectrum (2010) West Coast Premiere Drama/Film Noir/Thriller France/Belgium, 2009 In French with English subtitles 35mm/2.35/Color/Dolby DTS/125 min Written and directed by: Lucas Belvaux Cinematography by: Pierre Milon Editing by: Danielle Anezin Music by: Riccardo Del Fra Produced by: Patrick Sobelman Production Company: Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo Coproduction: Entre Chien et Loup - Belgique, RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Ateliers de Baere, France 3 Cinéma International Sales: Films Distribution 34, rue du Louvre 75001 Paris France Phone number: +33 1.53.10.33.99 www.filmsdistribution.com Cast: Yvan Attal (Stanislas Graff), Anne Consigny (Françoise Graff), André Marcon (André Peyrac), Françoise Fabian (Marjorie), Alex Descas (Maître Walser), Michel Voïta (Commissaire Paoli), Gérard Meylan (Le Marseillais), Maxime Lefrançois (Bertaux), Christophe Kourotchkine (Jean-Jacques Garnier), Sarah Messens (Véronique Graff), Julie Kaye (Martine Graff), Marc Rioufol (Commandant Chenut), Patrick Descamps (Massart), Bertrand Constant (Capitaine Verne), Tania Torrens (Mrs Keller) Loosely based on the real-life kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean Empain in 1978, Rapt shows the downfall of rich industrialist Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal, Munich, Rush Hour 3, The Interpreter). Graff is kidnapped by a group of criminals determined to get a ransom. Brutally mutilated, humiliated by his captors, Graff patiently waits for his wife Françoise (Anne Consigny, Wild Grass, I Am Not Here to Be Loved (COL•COA 2006), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and his associates to pay the ransom. Outside, his world collapses as the press reveals a double life he had successfully kept private: lavish parties, mistresses, gambling debts. As an actor, LUCAS BELVAUX has worked with some of the greatest directors: Losey (The Trout), Zulawski (La Femme Publique), Chabrol (Madame Bovary), Rivette (Wuthering Heights), Assayas (Disorder) and most recently Robert Guédiguian in The Army of Crime. He wrote and directed his first movie in 1992, the critically acclaimed Parfois trop d’amour. After a second feature, the hit comedy Just For a Laugh, (COL•COA 1998), starring New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud, Belvaux wrote and directed a critically acclaimed thriller Trilogy: An Amazing Couple, On the Run and After Life, (2003 Louis-Delluc prize). He followed with The Right of the Weakest (COL•COA 2008), a social film noir nominated for a Golden Palm at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. PRESS "Lucas Belvaux's "Rapt" is two movies, both excellent, for the price of one. On the one hand, it's a social-political thriller of the kind made familiar by Costa-Gavras. On the other, it's a psychological study of a creature of power during and after his seizure by ransom-hunters, and the effects of the kidnap on those close and not so close to him." Bernard Besserglik, The Hollywood Reporter "The ubiquitous Yvan Attal delivers one of his better performances in his humbled, dethroned master-of-the-universe role...The appearance of Françoise Fabian (best remembered stateside for her starring role in My Night at Maud’s) as the master’s imperious and insufferably demanding mother will delight seasoned buffs." Doris Toumarkine, The Huffington Post.