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583,520 | 1,219,578 | 164,869 | 1 | Don't you think of watching that . ! | It is not the function of this short review to comment on Frederic Dard's San Antonio books . I must confess that it is not my cup of tea and I like Dard's excellent thrillers best , some of which were transferred to the screen with a certain success ( " Le Monte-Charge " and the famous " Toi Le Venin " . ) " San Anton... |
584,498 | 1,219,578 | 208,348 | 1 | Horrible film , dismal performances . . | There are French directors who dare : François Ozon is one of them , and even when he pushes his art to extreme limits ( les amants criminels ) , both his screenplay , his directing and his mastery remain powerful . This poor thing has a ghost of a screenplay , and features some of the worst performances that can be se... |
582,764 | 1,219,578 | 120,760 | 1 | the death of a film | Michel ( José Garcia ) is a writer who pens books for children . Everything is fine in his well-regulated life until one day , his wife Hélène leaves for a Chinese lover . From then onwards , everything goes askew for Michel . He has to come to terms with a serious block and he's especially despondent by his wife's dep... |
582,612 | 1,219,578 | 58,882 | 1 | France , Italy and Spain team up against England . | The early sixties brought the best James Bond films , thanks to Sean Connery's incomparable charisma and humor . In their wake , a countless spate of sub-007 began to appear : OSS 117 , Coplan , and the nadir of them all : O77 ( sic ) Dick Maloy . This one was the first featuring this two-bit spy and it's really a poor... |
584,124 | 1,219,578 | 213,807 | 1 | dated , dated as hell . | This is not a great French masterpiece . It's full of clichés . Most of the characters are unpleasant or ludicrous . The events of May 1968 are a vague background , with trendy words galore : revolution , nudity , freedom ( check the title ) . The hero is a sort of young bourgeois , wishing to avoid an " imitation of l... |
583,815 | 1,219,578 | 120,591 | 1 | so as Def Leppard said " armageddon it ! " ( the movie ) | Two movies : " the fifth element " , " armageddon " . The same subject : to save the world . The same main actor : Bruce Willis . One difference : " Armageddon " is very inferior to Luc Besson's film . Some spectacular special effects don't succeed in hiding a labored and globally conventional screenplay . Several part... |
583,498 | 1,219,578 | 65,515 | 1 | A ( very very ) poor man's Hitchcock . | Frankly I doubt Schneider herself said that this movie " set the tone for her future roles " . If such was the case , what a poor taste she used to have . Actually , it was rather " la piscine " made the year before , that boosted her career that was on the wane after the Sissi saga ( forever my love ) . Romy Schneider... |
582,608 | 1,219,578 | 69,990 | 1 | And Bardot created Vadim . | Brigitte Bardot must have had a very strong personality to make " and God created woman " the smash hit it was at the end of the fifties . Vadim / Bardot , it's Pygmalion in reverse : an actress who had un petit je ne sais quoi who created the worst director of the whole nouvelle vague . Vadim made half a dozen of movi... |
585,417 | 1,219,578 | 119,972 | 1 | a movie full of mediocrity | Just a short and basic review about this turkey and a positive one ! But fortunately three unfavorable votes . The person who wrote it must have few demanding tastes as regards cinema . Let's take the year 1997 . If I had to retain the most outstanding young people movie of the year in the positive sense of the word , ... |
583,754 | 1,219,578 | 183,142 | 1 | It has to be seen to be believed ( 2 ) | I used the same title for " Broceliande " which took the horrror film to new heights of stupidity . This is the worst French ( and arguably Polish ? I cannot judge for that matter ) thriller that has ever been filmed to date , even beating the worst photocopies of " silence of the lambs " the likes of " les rivières po... |
585,139 | 1,219,578 | 295,700 | 1 | Wrong turn indeed ! | This is the kind of flick the horror movie buff has already seen a hundred times or more . A parboiled cross between " the Texas chainsaw massacre " and " Friday the thirteenth " and . . . . . . . . ( fill in the blank ) . Good-looking boys and girls meet horrible blood thirsty monsters ( shall we call them men ? ) . C... |
582,649 | 1,219,578 | 107,290 | 1 | worth seeing for its special effects | Who has ever dreamt of making a movie which the action would take place during our era with dinosaurs in the main roles . Steven Spielberg must have had the idea by thinking : " it would get a huge commercial success . . . " . He aimed straight . Indeed , a few months after the launch of the movie in 1993 , the movie b... |
582,418 | 1,219,578 | 262,911 | 1 | A big bore . | This is one of those road movies that would like to tell you a lotta things about women , the universe , the better life , the terrible solitude of the brilliant architect from Manhattan who severs all links with everyone , including his three years old child - which may seem irresponsible to some-Actually the hero win... |
584,857 | 1,219,578 | 57,086 | 1 | A school teacher asks his students ( about 11 ) to write an essay . . . | He asks them to locate the story in Central Europa in the early Middle Ages . And what he gets . . . is not far from what the " scriptwriters " produced here . A voice - over begins a little " cultural " presentation : " in those ancient times , no one was spared : old men , women , children , blah , blah , blah , all ... |
583,591 | 1,219,578 | 53,198 | 1 | Living a wild life | This film aka " the four hundred blows " is a mistranslation . Faire les 400 coups " means " to live a wild life . As a French , I'm stunned when I see the popularity of this good , but by no means outstanding film . 1 . It's not the first film of the " nouvelle vague " move ; check Agnes Varda's " la pointe courte " ,... |
582,556 | 1,219,578 | 89,489 | 1 | Hooper , the body snatcher . | The eighties were really a hard time for sci-fi . Caught between children trivia and horror / gore , the genre produced horrible movies . Here's a good example . The magpie syndrome is rampant as ever : snatches of " alien " , " night of the living dead " , many a vampire movie , and of course , a big hunk of " invasio... |
583,547 | 1,219,578 | 87,289 | 1 | Frankenstein 0 | Alain Jessua took a wrong turn from this movie onwards . All he did before was perfectly acceptable ( " Les Chiens " " Armaguedon " and even highly commendable ( " Traitement de Choc " ) Alain Jessua is one of of the rare French directors who has broached the fantasy and horror genre . In " Traitement de Choc " he tack... |
585,430 | 1,219,578 | 412,535 | 1 | C'est Le Casse De Brice | In 1995 , Jean Dujardin organized his first shows around a character he knew when he was in high school entitled Brice . The latter took himself for someone witty , clever and whose formidable verbal words helped him to maintain respect around him . Dujardin kept him in memory to create an eternal teenager and a dreamy... |
584,275 | 1,219,578 | 317,202 | 1 | It has to be seen to be believed ! ! ! | Really ! Here the French cinema hits rock bottom , and compared to it , the least appealing of the American adolescent horror movies , the likes of " Friday the thirteenth " " Freddy " and co are masterpieces of the seventh art . It's all the more infuriating as there were exciting original elements : the forêt de Broc... |
582,330 | 1,219,578 | 60,561 | 1 | Abysmal | Joe Caligula was reportedly forbidden by the censorship at the same time as Jacques Rivette's " la religieuse ' , but not for the same reasons . " Joe Caligula " anticipated Quarantino's extreme violence by more than thirty years . That does not make it a good movie for all that , by a long shot . It is actually one ... |
582,540 | 1,219,578 | 64,902 | 1 | Les yeux sans visage remake . | Georges Franju's remarkable horror film had a deep influence on that kind of cinema : even Amenabar's " abre los ojos " is a good example of what Franju brought to the fantasy and horror movies . The first sex-horror film ! claimed the tagline . Well for that matter , Murnau's " Nosferatu " came first . Claude Mulot's ... |
584,215 | 1,219,578 | 185,183 | 1 | Oh my God ! They ( John Travolta and Roger Christian ) killed science-fiction ! | In the world of the cinema , there's one thing I don't understand and that I find mysterious : how with a pharaonic budget can we produce such appalling movies ? Roger Christian should have thought about it before he began shooting his film . He even should have given up his project . An important amount of money would... |
582,363 | 1,219,578 | 69,369 | 1 | Avant-garde ? Isn't it the French word for c . . . ? | That's what John Lennon once said . Themroc is would be avant-garde , but only for these who have a short memory . Take the beginning of the movie : these herds going to work , the hero's tiny and seedy flat , they already were in King Vidor's " the crowd " ( 1928 ) . Actually Claude Faraldo contents himself with recyc... |
583,306 | 1,219,578 | 53,472 | 1 | How the French cinema lost its innocence . . . | François Ozon , one of the most talented contemporary French directors , told once he did not care about the nouvelle vague . With notable exceptions ( Demy , Malle , Chabrol ) , I do not either . The nouvelle vague and particularly Godard were the so called saviours of a moribund cinema . Some critics talked about the... |
584,799 | 1,219,578 | 74,840 | 1 | Pretentious . . | Sautet had jettisoned his films noirs influences which gave the great " Classes tous Risques " and the good " L'Arme à Gauche " . One could have thought that " Max et les Ferrailleurs " his best film in the seventies would herald a return to form as well as a return to what he did best . But " Vincent François , Paul e... |
583,212 | 1,219,578 | 257,469 | 1 | Nightmare : not a misnomer . | This movie itself is a nightmare : I dare you to stay till the end . The story is so muddled and the treatment so dull that one wonders why money can be spent to produce such duds . The late Pierre Clementi , dressed as a chauffeur during the whole film , is chasing a girl who was a famous virtuoso and who disappeared ... |
583,021 | 1,219,578 | 42,911 | 1 | Worst French movie of all time ? | This one is a strong contender . It was based on a comic strip which everyone has forgotten today . I've never read it , but if it is as subtle as the film , I do not miss an awful lot . The main reason for which this flick is sought is Louis de Funes ' s presence : he portrays a violin teacher with a very long beard (... |
584,146 | 1,219,578 | 143,944 | 1 | Maffia and melodrama . | This movie is a jumble , a dreadful pot-pourri of incompetent playing ( Béatrice Dalle , in a pointless part ) , writing ( as many plot holes as in Swiss cheese ) and scoring ( syrupy strings , angelic hymns or Italian solo singer ) . The only reason to watch this movie is Raf Vallone's performance . He is no longer th... |
584,545 | 1,219,578 | 228,418 | 1 | Those were the days | This is exactly the kind of movie the Nouvelle Vague made possible . Probably inspired by some aspects of Godard's notorious " Masculin / Feminin " , it represents all that I hate in the French cinema . Probably inspired by real-life " teenage idols " , these three pitiful " singers " make the viewer turn a deaf ear to... |
583,729 | 1,219,578 | 402,294 | 1 | When I was a child , I used to read Iznogoud stories . . . . | . . . . and how much did I love them ! Goscinny and Tabary used to work wonders for there was only one plot : the Grand Vizir Iznogoud wants to get rid of the caliph and be caliph himself ; but every time they came up with funny new situations , hilarious puns and a lot of black humor . Patrick Braoudé completely butch... |
585,303 | 1,219,578 | 217,083 | 1 | Worst French prison movie ever ? | Jacques Becker's " le trou " is generally looked upon as the best French prison movie ever . This one is the nadir of this kind of stuff . I do not know who could do worse . Jacques Becker's grande oeuvre avoided all the clichés : the wardens were not the baddies for instance . Claude Brasseur's homosexual sadistic bru... |
584,317 | 1,219,578 | 228,569 | 1 | Trash trash trash | Charley Boorman , who plays the villain ( and I mean villain ) , is John Boorman's son , but it is a far cry from " Esmerald forest " ! A trashy movie dealing with trash ! This is the kind of movie which should be burned . In the Middle Ages , the " director " , Jean Claude Roy ( who essentially made porno movies ) , w... |
582,354 | 1,219,578 | 86,655 | 1 | The nadir of the French psychological thriller . | Thirty years later , this movie tries to capture the atmosphere of the great Clouzot , Duvivier and Decoin film noirs of the forties and fifties . But it's wishful thinking . Because no one is HG Clouzot except HG Clouzot and do not expect the return of " diabolique " . Besides , novelist Sebastien Japrisot is one of t... |
583,996 | 1,219,578 | 211,915 | 1 | she didn't and she won't change my life | This movie is at number 14 in the top 250 . It was nominated in several categories for the oscars by March 2002 . All around the world , Amélie Poulain elated millions of people . The question I ask myself is this one : why did this film make millions of people so happy ? I saw it last year at the cinema ; it's not tha... |
584,798 | 1,219,578 | 73,155 | 1 | The most overrated French movie of all time ? | This one is a strong contender ! Romy Schneider was highly praised ( and granted a Cesar ) for her " harrowing " part but Zulawski is definitely a deeply boring terribly pretentious director . Outside Schneider , the casts includes zombie Dutronc who portrays a totally unconvincing character with suicidal tendencies an... |
585,446 | 1,219,578 | 110,631 | 2 | There's no accounting for taste . | I guess I will be the only one to put disparagement on this beloved work which anybody on the site praises to the skies . Frankly I do not like it , not at all . POSSIBLE SPOILERS : the screenplay is not that much strong , and the suspense is not really here . The first hour is boring and what remains is a spate of cli... |
582,436 | 1,219,578 | 93,298 | 2 | Yellow revolver . | Yes there IS a yellow revolver in this movie . What else ? Well not much . A girl who was a gangster's hostage tries to latch on to lots of dough . But alas there's a private eye of an insurance company and a female cop who know more than they should . The heroine lies through her teeth ( and she kills every time she n... |
584,249 | 1,219,578 | 116,629 | 2 | space ( I believe in ) | One of the biggest hits of the year 1996 ( especially in the USA ) but certainly not one of the finest science-fiction movies ever made . The sole advantage of the movie rests in the special effects that are really impressive ( the gigantic spacecraft ) . But the assets of Roland Emmerich's movie stop here . Then , " I... |
585,332 | 1,219,578 | 73,875 | 2 | the toilets were closed from the inside | This is Patrice Leconte's very premier film as a filmmaker and I hate to say this for a director I admire : it's a total failure at all levels . It's evident here that Leconte was trying to handle the rules of long feature movie and probably felt uncomfortable with it . On a simple , oddball detective story , the filmm... |
583,067 | 1,219,578 | 54,700 | 2 | Young people can do as they like nowadays . . . | That's what the title means . . . Nowadays was actually 1961 . But BB was an important actress , because she created a brand new type of woman on the screen , not a bimbo as too many people think today . We cannot say the same of her ex-husband and director Vadim , with whom she made five films ( " Et Dieu créa la femm... |
583,596 | 1,219,578 | 83,866 | 2 | SS took naïveté to new limits . | The fact that such a dud movie can be in the top 250 speaks volumes about the public's tastes . The story is mushy , maudlin to a fault , politically correct . The special effects are not that much impressive . No imagination , no humor ( unless ET ' s fancy for beer counts ) , and of course the young boy smarter than ... |
584,087 | 1,219,578 | 98,994 | 2 | Get " at close range " instead ! | This had high intellectual pretensions . The main lead intends to give a " deep " " meaningful " rendering ( with voice over for his frames of mind naturally ) and he was certainly influenced by the fifties / sixties " method " - which , when the script and the direction were worthwhile did give stunning results ( see ... |
583,112 | 1,219,578 | 116,287 | 2 | Beware of orphans ! | SPOILERS That could be the obnoxious moral of this story . And long live the family ! When a whole family is involved , any suspense disappears . What could happen to these nice people ? Which is less likeable is the necessity to find victims somewhere else : if you're not part of the Family , they make sure you die : ... |
583,802 | 1,219,578 | 98,072 | 2 | The collector hits the road | Although this is a road movie , Lenzi's screenplay ( Lenzi takes an American name in the cast and credits of the version I saw ) is roughly a photocopy of William Wyler's impressive " the collector " ( 1965 ) with snatches of " Psycho " ( the mother ) and " Vertigo " ( how to turn a woman into another one ) thrown in .... |
582,734 | 1,219,578 | 230,753 | 2 | After an intriguing start , it amounts to ( almost ) nothing | Do not let the Gospel reference fool you : it is not the return of Pasolini ! It has nothing to do with the Holy Writ ! Actually , this Beauvois work begins quite well , with a hunting scene , followed by a meal where the conversation is probably improvised , à la Cassavetes . Then a wedding scene which is not unlike t... |
583,358 | 1,219,578 | 146,838 | 2 | Sunday , violent Sunday | Oliver Stone is keen on American football and always dreamt of devoting it a movie . In 1999 , he made his dream come true . " Any Given Sunday " is a quite successful movie about the concerned sport which is practiced at all in France . It's especially during matches that the movie becomes awesome . Stone used a livel... |
582,922 | 1,219,578 | 264,935 | 2 | Rope revisited . | Alfred Hitchcock invented any kind of thriller you could think of : he set the standards so high that any director who makes a suspense movie will be fatally compared to him . The main subject of this Bullock vehicle , all the ideas , almost everything was already in Hitchcock's classic " Rope " : the two students who ... |
583,065 | 1,219,578 | 89,420 | 2 | M . DeMille , where art thou ? | M . De Mille , you used to regale us with your " Samson and Delilah " or " ten commandments " . They used to say your stories were not faithful to the Holy Writ . But who cares ? Did the sultan care when Sheherazade was telling him endless stories which enthralled him ? Bruce Beresford ditches the De Mille mold and opt... |
583,034 | 1,219,578 | 230,745 | 2 | A waste of breath . | This is the kind of movie which shows the paucity of French cinema when it comes to making thrillers . The director's desire to " sound American " is so glaring that you will not be fooled a minute , unless you have not seen a serial killer movie since " Peeping Tom " . Two male cops ( or one and a half , more like , a... |
583,061 | 1,219,578 | 51,121 | 2 | Nagasaki mes amours . | Shot in color , with a comfortable budget for the time " Typhon sur Nagasaki " , in spite of two great French actors is not only a disaster movie : it's also a disaster itself . After a first part , which drags on and on and on , where Marais is torn between a French journalist and a Japanese in a folklore for tourists... |
585,145 | 1,219,578 | 228,333 | 2 | Not a ghost of an idea . | John Carpenter is one of the worst directors in the fantasy and horror movies . Because of the weakness of the screenplays , of the mediocre actors he often uses ( here they are abysmal , at least " Halloween " had JL Curtis ) , not to mention the horrible scores he persists in writing . The subject of the movie had al... |
583,819 | 1,219,578 | 190,861 | 2 | flashy , showy , no substance . | This is a movie made for His Majesty Gérard Depardieu , with an absurd supporting cast and lots and lots of wasted money . Depardieu is everywhere in the movie and reduces the others characters to walk-ons . Roland Joffé films everything he can , and tries to impress the audience with fireworks , audacious camera trick... |
582,853 | 1,219,578 | 208,655 | 2 | across the street , nothing new | The outset of this would-be creepy thriller starts under auspicious skies . A poor couple , Jean ( Jean-Hugues Anglade ) who is a writer , Michelle ( Clothilde Courau ) , a florist inherit as if by magic of an imposing hotel that their generous neighbor , Jean-Eudes Guillemet bequeathed them so long as they must keep t... |
584,320 | 1,219,578 | 305,224 | 2 | the ruining of the potential of this story makes you look this film in anger | When Jack Nicholson is at his best , that is to say when he accepts to hold demeaning parts . Then , he is on a par with the greatest contemporary American actors . Besides , the twentieth first Century started under auspicious skies for him with first-class job in Sean Penn's " the Pledge " ( 2001 ) or " About Schmidt... |
584,311 | 1,219,578 | 169,894 | 2 | Some rubbish from the French thirties . | There are two monstres sacrés : Raimu , without his Provençal accent for a while , and Françoise Rosay . This movie is proof positive that two great thespians cannot always save a film . Based on a play , it is very bad filmed stage production . The cock and bull story involves an actress , her ex-husband , a gym teach... |
584,351 | 1,219,578 | 106,224 | 2 | Very unpleasant | Why on earth did Robert Hossein have to get involved in that business ? ( no pun intended , since the movie deals with big business ) . A man of taste , he probably could not say no to Sergio Gobbi , a drudge with whom he had already made dreadful flicks ( " maldonne " " le temps des loups " in the sixties ) . He had p... |
584,409 | 1,219,578 | 74,843 | 2 | Nothing magic | After " les noces rouges " ( 1973 ) , began Chabrol's second period of barren inspiration . Although adapted from a Frederic Dard novel ( Robert Hossein's best film was a Dard novel : " Toi le Venin " ) , " Les Magiciens " is a mediocre movie , which was probably made to combine business with pleasure ( holidays in Tun... |
582,519 | 1,219,578 | 445,800 | 2 | exactly what the catch phrase says : the same in worse | My close relatives and friends know that Patrice Leconte has a prominent place in my straitjacket of favorite French filmmakers . I must profess that treasures like " Tandem " ( 1987 ) , " le Mari De la Coiffeuse " ( 1990 ) or " l'Homme Du Train " ( 2002 ) were pure cinematographic delights in my eyes . But in counterp... |
584,349 | 1,219,578 | 454,427 | 2 | Second part of " les quatre Charlots mousquetaires " | Although the two movies were probably filmed at the same time , this one is certainly weaker than the first episode ( which was not much of a comic movie anyway ) . There is a rather unexciting script , since the main " interest " lies in the fact that Dumas's musketeers were wash outs and their valets the real heroes ... |
584,658 | 1,219,578 | 331,468 | 2 | There is not a single scene . . . . | . . . . that the average viewer has not seen at least ten times or more . You can see what the characters are up to next from a mile off . A nice family ( Quaid , Stone , and two lovable children ) buys a manor in ruins in order to shun the traffic , pollution and problems of the big apple . But alas the former owner o... |
583,946 | 1,219,578 | 423,814 | 2 | North by southeast | I will not tell in detail the summary of this film . It's the umpteenth version of two cops who love the same woman and have no other choice than to collaborate together to arrest a dangerous gangster ( François Levantal ) on the French Riviera . But as one of them ( Pascal Elbé ) discovered that his team mate ( Jean D... |
583,454 | 1,219,578 | 196,229 | 2 | the last of the famous international top-models | The story of this Ben Stiller's effort ranks among the ones that American cinema particularly has a liking for . The flawless career of a fellow at first unlikely to succeed his life but who , ultimately will have become rich , respectable and will have found his place in society . Stiller must have been influenced by ... |
584,273 | 1,219,578 | 253,612 | 2 | The turning point . . . . . . and it leads to nowhere . | How not to think of Herbert Ross's " the turning point " where Ann Bancroft fulfilled her ambitions when her friend Shirley McLaine became a housewife ? Okay , the French movie has the lesbian side but even that has become so natural now ( remember Claude Chabrol's " les biches " , 1967 ) . But whereas Herbert Ross's s... |
582,499 | 1,219,578 | 157,603 | 2 | Teaming up for the worst ! | Imagine that ! Two legends of the French cinema , who had never played together and who finally teamed up : Pierre Fresnay and Arletty together ! It could have been a dream . . . but it turned out to be a nightmare . The director is incapable of directing and the two stars are left to their own devices : both overact a... |
584,905 | 1,219,578 | 293,467 | 2 | All the fine old cannibals | The precedent user and I , we have not seen the same movie ! But there's no accounting for taste they say . Amateurish directing , horrible soundtrack , abominable performances , only the cinematography is rather decent . A cursory look at Raphael Delpart , the " director " ' s filmography : from coarse comedy to abysm... |
585,503 | 1,219,578 | 99,901 | 2 | another Claude Chabrol dud | Henry Miller , the famous nefarious American writer in the twilight years remembers his youth spent in Paris at the dawn of the thirties . A life of debauchery guided by the search for rapture and intense pleasure of the senses through sex , food and literature ( he was a profound admirer of Marcel Proust ) . Amid a bu... |
583,807 | 1,219,578 | 1,064,976 | 2 | Com ' on , Pierre Arditi ! | Pierre Arditi is a very talented actor , but the dearth of good parts in the contemporary French cinema often makes him work on stage . He resembles Serge Reggiani and the directors could use him with decent material . Such is not the case with this turkey ! What can he do with the following script ? A young woman , wh... |
584,633 | 1,219,578 | 113,965 | 2 | Mornay sauce . | Rebecca De Mornay can be a fascinating beautiful actress but as for the parts she's given to play , if you cannot say something nice . . . De Mornay portrays a woman who had terrible traumas as a child with a father she can hardly stand now that she's a grown up and has become a - of course brilliant - shrink . She has... |
584,538 | 1,219,578 | 82,701 | 2 | Clumsy sci-fi . | Check the title : it's the best thing the film has to offer : a word made of two words " mal " ( French ) and " evil " ( English ) which have the same meaning . It was intended to be " rural " sci-fi without a Charlton Heston type hero . The problem lies in the fact that the movies with Heston ( " planet of the apes " ... |
584,728 | 1,219,578 | 97,114 | 2 | Very poor . | That money can be spent on such well-worn screenplays is beyond me . A man released from jail ( ? ) comes back to his native mountains to find a job in a sawmill and love . . . . but it's his boss's wife . But the boss's kid brother was also the lady's former lover . Cardboard characters " - the heroine is not even a b... |
585,264 | 1,219,578 | 63,592 | 2 | James Bond meets up with Pussy Galore again . | Forget BB . Three years after " Goldfinger " , here they are again : Sean Connery and Honor Blackman : alas , they have no real scene together and Honor will die horrible death . As for the rest , that is to say the movie itself , it's arguably Dmytryk's nadir . Shot in Spain in the Amerilla plain , it's really a rubbi... |
583,064 | 1,219,578 | 88,024 | 3 | All form and no content . | Crichton used to write elaborate screenplays long before he worked for Spielberg ( for whom he made his weakest stories , the likes of " Jurassic park " ) : " Mondwest " , the absorbing " coma " and even " looker " which began to show a declining skill . It was to continue with " Runaway " which had the poorest screenp... |
583,937 | 1,219,578 | 61,189 | 3 | Fallen Angels | This is typically the kind of movie which retains a small cult-following and does not deserve it at all . First of all , it came ten years to late : see Lazlo Benedeck ' " the wild ones " with Marlon Brando which seems very passé today too . And who could believe in a bunch of weirdoes commanded by Peter Fonda and Nanc... |
584,954 | 1,219,578 | 204,693 | 3 | everything unravels . . . | This effort from Eric Civanyan was basically a play and as it was a big hit , to revive it for the silver screen was nearly inevitable . This helps to fuel the tendency in the landscape of French cinema of the adaptation of popular French plays to the screen . The principle of the film lies on a classical recipe : a ma... |
585,561 | 1,219,578 | 143,088 | 3 | An overrated work . | Like most of the nouvelle vague works , " Adieu Philippine " seems dated now . Some people will praise it to the skies , other will find it a bit boring and tedious . The first part is the best : the depiction in a quasi documentary way of the TV studios , the meal at the hero's home where his parents and grand-parents... |
583,205 | 1,219,578 | 444,682 | 3 | The grim reaper | When you reach a peak such as Swank's part in " Million dollar baby " , the only way is down . And " the reaping " is a very poor fantasy and horror movie ; the screenplay seems to have been made by a computer . The ingredients are taken from other movies : 1 . The scene where the heroine takes refuge in a hut was stol... |
584,145 | 1,219,578 | 99,143 | 3 | There's nothing at the end of the rainbow . | The movie begins as a rip-off of Richard Brooks ' " Elmer Gantry " ( 1961 ) ( R . Arquette recalling Jean Simmons ) , then continues as a " the eyes of Laura Mars " ( 1978 ) imitation . Then finally David Cronenberg's " dead zone " serves as an inspiration to the director for the finale . The epilogue , whIch tries to ... |
583,361 | 1,219,578 | 65,146 | 3 | Another man , another woman | Claude Lelouch has made documentaries : " Loin du Vietnam " was a short in a film made up of sequences by different directors including Agnès Varda ; " 13 jours en France " was a reporton the Olympic Games of Grenoble 1968 " filmed with virtuosity but without feeling " ( Claude Bouliq Mercier ) . " Un homme qui me plai... |
585,412 | 1,219,578 | 66,218 | 3 | Kitsch rubbish | Here Jean-Gabriel Albicoco achieves a tour de force : he succeeds in turning Madeleine Robinson , one of the most talented actresses of the French cinema , into a ridiculous histrionic anti-Semitic shrew , overplaying all over the screen and making herself a fool . Only for that , I would dismiss the movie as utter rub... |
585,350 | 1,219,578 | 120,337 | 3 | pseudo suspense | Bernard Rapp's premier film is firmly anchored in the world of books and publishing . It's a domain the former French journalist knows like the back of his hand for he composed many books as well as he produced and host some television programs about writers . Sadly , his wide knowledge as regards the publishing world ... |
584,980 | 1,219,578 | 250,494 | 3 | rubbish | This the story of Elle Woods ( Reese Witherspoon ) , a pretty girl with blond hair who is also a brilliant student ( how original it is ! ) . With her boyfriend , Emmett Richmond ( Luke Wilson ) , they are living love's dream . But one day , he's leaving her by announcing him that he's engaging in a politic career . Fo... |
583,726 | 1,219,578 | 103,153 | 3 | Bourgeois cinema . | It looks like Claude Sautet's seventies movies . This film takes no chance , raises no question does not charm or repel . The eternal love triangle . An actress ( without roles ) married with a wealthy antique dealer falls from a younger man . What shall she do ? Well do not bother . The three of them have no problems ... |
585,465 | 1,219,578 | 63,072 | 3 | A major disappointment . | The year before , Robert Enrico had released his best film ever : " les aventuriers " . Its follow-up " Tante Zita " was one of his most personal movies , but also his least accessible work . " Ho " was a major disappointment . Third film featuring Johanna Shimkus , it's by far the weakest link of the " trilogy " . Far... |
584,396 | 1,219,578 | 120,360 | 3 | everything must go including this movie | If you have never seen this French movie , you frankly don't miss anything . There are at least five major shortcomings to enable you to skip " tout doit disparaître " without any regret . - First of all , it is obvious that when you shot a movie with very restricted means ( the scenery and certain parts of dialogs see... |
585,229 | 1,219,578 | 120,784 | 3 | nothing to eat in this reheated menu | Payback sadly confirms this trend : scenarists don't often make worthwhile movies . I'm amazed when I see the crop of plaudits the film garnered when it opened the streets at the dawn of 1999 in France . The specialized press liked the cleansing vibe which revived this thriller as well as its stylish aesthetic side .... |
582,842 | 1,219,578 | 116,432 | 3 | Why did we tell Jacques Villeret that he'd be the golden boy ? | A film whose topic is one of the western society's major problems : unemployment , " Golden Boy " evokes the French populist cinema of the thirties . Moreover , several sides of the story show that the movie is very influenced by Frank Capra's works . Unfortunately Jean-Pierre Vergne's movie can't hold a candle to any ... |
584,596 | 1,219,578 | 242,998 | 3 | my bloody valentine | The huge success of " Scream " in 1996 enabled to launch a new trend in the horror movie . This trend is based on a so-far peaceful universe but destroyed by the arrival of a disruptive element which is epitomized by a serial-killer . I would also add that since " Scream " and another " I know what you did last summer ... |
582,906 | 1,219,578 | 110,890 | 3 | pray for us | The director Jean Pierre Vergne directed some TV movies but who was unlucky when it came to direct movies for the silver screen before and after " Priez Pour Nous " : ( le Téléphone Sonne Toujours Deux Fois , 1985 owed a lot to the " Inconnus " while Golden Boy , 1996 in spite of Jean Claude Carrère at the scenario and... |
582,535 | 1,219,578 | 143,337 | 3 | mediocre B thriller | The year before " les Kidnappeurs " ( 1998 ) opened in France , Graham Guit had signed a tight and dry B whodunit with a dash of humor : " le Ciel est à Nous " ( 1997 ) . Its model in the form and the content was the violent and bloody universe of Quentin Tarantino . One year later , hiring the same crew , he did it ag... |
584,294 | 1,219,578 | 87,712 | 3 | Wanted | Based on the true story of a French gangster who was widely talked about in the late seventies . Made by Claude Chabrol's producer Paul Genovès . And played by Nicolas Silberg - who is best known for his Bussy character in the excellent " Dame de Montsoreau " miniseries circa 1975 - , de la Comédie Française , thus the... |
582,688 | 1,219,578 | 72,230 | 3 | The unusual suspects | Just have a look at the way the Italian Immigrante is treated , and compare it to the VIP's offspring , complete with help from the government and lawyer ! The poor man is not even granted a " vous " , the French polite phrase . This is the only thing that rings true in what finally is a mediocre sprawling movie the on... |
582,747 | 1,219,578 | 250,069 | 3 | A waste of money | French producers must have lots and lots of dough to throw down the drain ! Why produce such a thing ? About 10 % of the movie is , at a pinch , funny , 40 % is filler - a nice way to have a good time in New-York , London and Hollywood - and 40 % is the success story all over again . To be successful , such a story sho... |
584,143 | 1,219,578 | 67,805 | 3 | Sunday boring Sunday . | This is exactly the kind of movie that passes for " intellectual " " must-see " for snobs . Actually it is one of the biggest chores the British cinema has produced . This movie came at least ten years TOO LATE : Antonioni cum Tennessee Williams was over the hill at the time . Intended as some kind of " bourgeois " ord... |
583,451 | 1,219,578 | 289,848 | 3 | mafia blues 2 : the relapse | Harold Ramis seems to have found his bearings in American comedy through the repetition . In Groundhog Day ( 1993 ) , he condemned Bill Murray to live the same day over and over again . In " Multiplicity " ( 1996 ) , he gave Michael Keaton the opportunity to clone himself in four different characters . Here , for the t... |
584,743 | 1,219,578 | 54,950 | 3 | I'll take a rain ( s ) check on that ! | Claude Rains ' worst part ? This flick is a strong contender ! Like his compatriots Bette Davis and Joan Crawford , he tries his hand at camp ! Overacting is an euphemism . Wearing horrible glasses , writing mathematical gibberish everywhere , lazily lying on his hammock in his greenhouse , and ranting ceaselessly abou... |
584,523 | 1,219,578 | 113,249 | 3 | A family saga . . . . . | . . . . as Visconti showed it in a work such as " la cadeti dei degli " ( 1969 ) demands much more than " Innocent lies " ' s director can do . Outside the brother and the sister , and the cop ( who is humming twice bribes of the old Irish tune " Carrickfergus " ; the connection with the movie escapes me , I am afraid ... |
585,001 | 1,219,578 | 95,898 | 3 | Crimes in the street ( and everywhere ) | a French thriller of the eighties , " Preuve d'Amour " bears all the appropriate scars of the time : it is a patchy inconsistent movie , with gaudy scenes and an unbearable music : flashy and no substance . Influenced by former works which were not that much good in the first place ( the flashbacks inspired by " l'Ete ... |
584,614 | 1,219,578 | 60,533 | 3 | Fallen idol . | It looks like a parboiled cross between Douglas Sirk and Michelangelo Antonioni , with a touch of French nouvelle vague thrown in for good measure . It depicts a spoilt youth playing with trash . None of the young actors became a star afterward , which is easily understandable ; for instance , John Layton was supposed ... |
584,060 | 1,219,578 | 71,890 | 3 | The slump begins here | Nada was the most inadequate follow-up to " Les NOces Rouges " which , with hindsight , appears now as the last good movie of Chabrol's golden era ( 1967-1973 ) " Nada " is Chabrol's first real attempt at a wholly political movie ; its previous work " les Noces Rouges " had also political elements but it was more a p... |
584,838 | 1,219,578 | 115,798 | 3 | the cable guy , he only wants to embrace your life and to be your friend forever | 20 000 000 millions of dollars . Jim Carrey asked this substantial amount to hold this miscast role for him . This Pharaonic amount of money is just as equal as his overwhelming presence in " the Cable Guy " ( 1996 ) . If he tries to renew his image by acting another type of character who is a disturbing psychopath ( a... |
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