本片由法国著名导演帕特利斯•勒贡特执导,他的电影题材十分多元,从探讨疯子、性别问题到悄悄解构人类智慧文明,使他成为法国倍受尊崇的导演之一。而男性之间的情谊,更成为勒贡特的电影里常常出现的主题,《大公爵》正是如此,以三个男人之间的友谊为主线,讲述了一段令人啼笑皆非的故事。据说帕特利斯•勒贡特刚从法国最著名的电影学院毕业时,并没有立即投入电影的创作中,而是当起漫画家来,替法国的杂志画卡通,但另一方面他也开始制作一些传奇卡通短片。这些经验替他日后相当风格化的喜剧片品牌,竖立了别具一格的幽默感。《大公爵》充满笑料,但又不乏深刻思考,正是帕特利斯•勒贡特的喜剧经典之作,相信一定不会令观众失望。。SYNOPSIS
Urgently called, the police inspector has arrived in a hotel, and didn't find any crime, but noticed some strangenesses occurring there. He has decided to leave, but a snow avalanche is crushed in the mountains, making it impossible for him to leave. Soon, inspector has found a body of a dead lodger. Everyone who lives in the hotel is under suspicion... (Strugatsky Brothers website)
NOTES
This is a crime / mystery thriller with surreal and psychedelic science fiction overtones based on a book Inspector Glebsky's Puzzle by the Strugatsky brothers. The screenplay was also written by the brothers and it differs from the book. The less you know about the movie the better starting point you have. The film is based largely on the mystery of what's happening to the people of Dead Mountaineer's Hotel. Is everything what it seems? Who's dead or who's not?。