We don’t have to have the ability to personally operate the business we have to understand the business well enough to sell the business. It’s most important that we compile, analyze, and favorably present the attributes of the business to a potential buyer, to pique his interest and encourage him to make an offer. While we may have the expertise to operate the business, it is not necessary that we know all the nuances of the business to provide our guidance.įor our business sales engagements, for example, it is most important that we properly present and market the business for the highest price. We appreciate that each industry and business has unique characteristics, but we are not looking at the business as a personal acquisition, or one that we are personally investing in, but as advisors or intermediaries. Widescreen compositions and sharp editing put us where the action is, whether it’s the private ordeal of one character or a manhunt conducted on land and from the air.We are general business brokers and have provided our services to a variety of industries. The actor lost 20 kilos in the course of the role but his appearance never plays like a stunt.Ĭonsigny is also excellent as the spouse who must juggle public humiliation with the prospect of widowhood. Attal conveys the inherent dignity of a man with prodigious appetites who is well-born but believes in hard work. But what happens if the ransom demand isn’t met in full?Īs Graff struggles to survive while hoping he’ll get out alive, the French press has a field day revealing the aspects of his life he’d managed to keep under wraps.Ĭut off from any news of the outside world, Graff endures a physical and mental nightmare as his captivity drags on. Police detectives assigned to the case have their own brand of finesse and come across as more compassionate. The reaction when Graff’s wife and mother (a superbly haughty Francoise Fabian) learn he’s “only” got a portion of the fee required is, well, priceless. It would appear that the health of the industrial group comes before the health of its CEO. The formal precision of verbal exchanges is bone-chillingly pragmatic. The ransom is 50 million euros, a sum the company sees as Graff’s problem, ruling that every penny should be paid from his personal wealth. The kidnappers are cold-blooded - they sever one of Graff’s fingers -but so is the board of directors of the 130,000-employee firm Graff runs. What distinguishes the film is its eye and ear for how top-tier power brokers and people used to maintaining appearances at all costs cope with a dilemma on this scale. His fall from stratospheric power to utter helplessness is so abrupt and so complete that the viewer can’t help but identify with Graff’s plight. Then, wham! A commando abducts Graff from his chauffeur-driven limo and spirits him away in broad daylight. We appreciate that each industry and business has unique.
Graff has an impressive office in a very imposing building (he’s about to accompany France’s president on a state visit to China) he pays a carnal visit to a young mistress in a gorgeous Paris penthouse loses a frightening amount at poker without blinking and greets his elegant wife (Consigny) and teenage daughters in his lavish home. We are general business brokers and have provided our services to a variety of industries. In the film’s sweepingly orchestrated first five minutes we learn - or believe we learn - what sort of guy Stanislas Graff (Attal) is. What’s on screen is visceral and credible thanks to a well-chosen cast anchored by Yvan Attal’s gut-churning performance as the victim. Scott Fitzgerald put it, the rich are different.
Returns in French-speaking territories look good and distributors attuned to classy drama with gritty elements should take a look.Īttal lost 20 kilos in the course of the role, but his appearance never plays like a stunt.įrench audiences will recognise Rapt’s story as closely inspired by an authentic 1978 kidnapping case, but international viewers need nothing more than an awareness that, as F. Blending emotional suspense with gripping action sequences, writer-director Lucas Belvaux is in equal or better form than he displayed in his acclaimed Trilogy. To accommodate this in a grazing incidence design, extremely thin mirrors are formed in concentric shell configurations. Smarter-than-average criminals snatch a French captain of industry and hold him for ransom in Rapt, a nail-biting contemporary thriller that investigates the value of one human life when tens of millions of euros and national prestige are at stake. Future X-ray telescopes require significant amounts of optical area.
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