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585,451 | 1,219,578 | 65,957 | 3 | Suspense ersatz . | This movie had high pretensions . Sebastien Japrisot is a poor man's Boileau Narcejac whose scripts are far-fetched and fall apart at every twist . Stephane Audran's presence could give a Claude Chabrol feel . And the heroine was Samantha Eggar , of " the collector " fame ( 1965 ) . Add Oliver Reed and a director , Ana... |
585,201 | 1,219,578 | 328,107 | 3 | too much fire kills it | In 1987 , Quinnell's book was adapted for the silver screen by Elie Chouraqui , a minor director , responsible of " Paroles et Musique " ( 1984 ) and " les Marmottes " ( 1993 ) . This version was not a masterpiece and is now virtually in limbo . Unfortunately , it's not this overlong remake by Tony Scott which will set... |
585,372 | 1,219,578 | 67,087 | 3 | A bevy of beautiful girls . . . . . | . . . . spending a " beautiful Summer " ( that's what the title claims ) in a green country . Faustine is one of them . All the boys around woo her particularly Joachim ( Francis Huster Nina Companez would use again for her notorious " Histoire Tres Bonne et Tres Joyeuse de Colinot Trousse - Chemise " ) but Faustine is... |
584,279 | 1,219,578 | 287,448 | 3 | Canet and Lindon : brothers in arms ? | Back to the Middle Ages , but as the precedent user wrote , what's the point ? It was already questionable in " le retour de Martin Guerre " , an overrated movie which used the era as an " exotic " background for was finally a story which could happen nowadays . " Le frère du guerrier " , on the other hand , seems at f... |
584,872 | 1,219,578 | 368,375 | 3 | The dark mirror | Please do not mention Hitchcock ! The Master knew that without a solid screenplay it's a waste of breath . All those " modern " French thrillers suffer from approximative vague scripts . The directors think that special effects , disturbing music ( here very Chabrolesque ) , and an ominous soundtrack can make the job d... |
583,478 | 1,219,578 | 119,528 | 3 | truth hurts . . . | Fletcher Reede ( Jim Carrey ) , is a lawyer who is estranged from his wife Audrey ( Maura Tierney ) . His occupations maintain him far from his home and particularly from his son Max . But he really loves him . One day , for his birthday , Max wishes that his father can't lie for 24 hours . His wish will come true sinc... |
583,755 | 1,219,578 | 326,299 | 3 | Going for broke . . . pas du tout . | The title and the prologue might make think of a fine little film noir . " Le tout pour le tout " = ( going for broke ) . The heroes are not going for broke , that's for sure , but the producers were certainly broke . It seems that the cast took advantage of a trip to Brazil to film this obsolete story of husband and w... |
583,156 | 1,219,578 | 64,159 | 3 | Aux Enfants De La Chance . . . . . . | . . . . . To the lucky children who have never known drugs . . . . sings Serge Gainsbourg in one of his best songs about the dealers . Gainsbourg was a singer / songwriter extraordinaire but really a poor actor ; anyway , he could not have saved this absolute dud . By far , André Cayatte ' s worst effort , with an absu... |
583,194 | 1,219,578 | 53,362 | 3 | A mediocre adventure yarn . | This story is supposed to happen during WW2 , but it quickly leaves this historical context for exotic horizons . The presence of a short-haired Yvonne De Carlo ( in order to give her a " French " style ? ) , a hairdo that does not become her at all , increases this feeling . The script is rather poor , every time a Fr... |
583,350 | 1,219,578 | 117,705 | 3 | This movie merely aims at children | Making a movie that mixes characters cartoons with actors in the flesh is a good idea so long as the plot must be interesting enough to sustain the interest . For " Space jam " , we're far from the result . With the exception of quite successful special effects and a plain performance of Michael Jordan , the movie is a... |
582,727 | 1,219,578 | 232,083 | 3 | Back to Charlotte Armstrong . | This is the second adaptation of Charlotte Armstrong by Claude Chabrol for the screen : the first was " la rupture " ( 1970 ) ( from novel " the balloon man " ) and it's really a pity no one cares about it . It's Chabrol's sleeper , and I urge any of his fans to see it . " The chocolate " cobweb was not that strong a d... |
582,512 | 1,219,578 | 315,869 | 3 | The nouvelle vague in all its splendor . . . . | . . . or all its horror , depending on whom you ask . Everything you like ( or dislike ) in the French nouvelle vague is here : amateurish acting ( with the exception of Paulette Dubost : why on earth did she have to get involved in that business ? ) , loose screenplay ( and I'm overgenerous to write this ) , character... |
585,522 | 1,219,578 | 109,800 | 3 | Favorite son , not favorite movie ! | Like her star Bernard Giraudeau , Nicole Garcia's ambition was to direct movies ; she got close for honor with her " un week-end sur deux " . She did even better with " l'adversaire " Here she wallows in rivers of clichés . First of all , her main star is not up to scratch : Gérard Lanvin's wooden acting is desperately... |
583,790 | 1,219,578 | 163,978 | 3 | on the beach . . . | In the beginning of 2000 , everyone waited impatiently , the release of the movie " the beach " , mainly because Leonardo DiCaprio was in the main role . You thought that he was going to carry on with dignity , following the huge commercial and artistic success of " Titanic " . But sadly , it's not the case . This movi... |
584,560 | 1,219,578 | 322,289 | 3 | Even the oysters are bad ! | I've seen tons of Chabrol movies , about 95 % of his films and all I can see is that the proportion of duds increases in the years . Even directors deserve retirement ! The bourgeoisie dolce vita has been told told and TOLD by CC ! Enough ! I'm fed up ! It's all the more infuriating as earlier works had bite and guts g... |
584,395 | 1,219,578 | 119,620 | 3 | An inexplicable success for this trite French love story . | Marius and Jeannette is a movie from Robert Guédiguian , a filmmaker who has almost always worked with the same actors . More important , this film that is supposed to be a tribute to the world of Marcel Pagnol was an unexpected success at the French box-office . I must admit that don't share this enthusiasm from the... |
584,156 | 1,219,578 | 289,765 | 3 | I can't understand the high popularity rating for " Red Dragon " | The title of my review says it all : I can't understand the high popularity rating for " Red Dragon " . When the movie was broadcast on French TV , I went on IMDb to check the mark : 7 , 4 out 10 ! This made me want to watch this film and the story reminded me of " the silence of the lambs " ' . At first sight , " Red ... |
584,634 | 1,219,578 | 217,019 | 3 | Sad Sade | The title is a misnomer : the movie depicts barely one year of the so-called " divin marquis " . Twas a hard time for him ' cause he was threatened by the guillotine : the quiet joys of the reign of Terror . Historically speaking , the background is rather sketchy : " the fête De l'et re supreme " , Robespierre's faile... |
583,746 | 1,219,578 | 92,797 | 3 | A far cry from Chabrol ' s great works . | Patricia Highsmith's " cry of the owl " was not her best or even among her best ; we are far from triumphs such as " the talented Mister Ripley " " Ripley's game " or " strangers on a train " . But it was an interesting psychological study , focusing on a man who thought that , whatever he might do , he was bound to fa... |
582,975 | 1,219,578 | 42,255 | 3 | Jackstraw | Released at a time when Duvivier was going again from strength to strength . " Black Jack " which was sandwiched between the overlooked extraordinary " Au Royaume des Cieux " and the dazzling stunning " Sous Le Ciel de Paris " , is a jumble , which Duvivier himself hated , which is not surprising . There's almost nothi... |
584,636 | 1,219,578 | 381,104 | 3 | disappointment reigns | After two delicious feature-length movies , " Life is a long quiet river " ( 1988 ) and " Tatie Danielle " ( 1990 ) , Etienne Chatiliez's career followed a descending slope : " le bonheur est dans le pré " ( 1995 ) hadn't the verve of the two previous movies anymore and " Tanguy " ( 2001 ) in spite of a malicious humor... |
584,628 | 1,219,578 | 55,934 | 3 | The slump begins with this film . . . . | I'm not like this kind of people who are going to tell you everything Marcel Carné did after his golden era ( from 1936 : Jenny to 1946 : Les Portes de la Nuit " ) was worthless . It is untrue and at least three of his post - Portes works are eminently watchable : " Thérèse Raquin " " les Tricheurs " and his bizarre " ... |
584,265 | 1,219,578 | 207,453 | 3 | Awful melodrama . | This is the first talkie by Lherbier and it has not aged well . Just coming out of the silent era , the cinema was still " filmed stage production " style . A woman ( I will not mention the name of the actress ) has an illegal son ; she used to be a music hall artist ( les Folies Bergères ) and she has had a lover ( a ... |
583,761 | 1,219,578 | 50,646 | 4 | Nothing in sight | André Roussin was a specialist of what the French call " Theatre de Boulevard " : plays where you find the eternal triangle : man / wife / ( male or female ) lover . Many of his plays gave Elvire Popesco some of her best parts on stage . . . . and the great actress was the main reason to watch them , for Roussin is not... |
584,859 | 1,219,578 | 325,352 | 4 | I'll be there for another more ambitious , pristine plan from Charlotte Church in cinema | This film , chiefly a vehicle conceived to highlight Charlotte Church at a time when she was about to relinquish classical music to jump on the bandwagon of pop ( maybe wrongly ) didn't last long at its opening in English theaters . It didn't reach the streets in France for the simple reason that if Church is celebrate... |
583,276 | 1,219,578 | 45,677 | 4 | Delirio ? | A story which could not be less delirious . The screenplay is nothing more than that of a photo love story ( the photo love stories were very popular in Italy and in France in the fifties and the sixties : from the seventies onwards , their decline was inexorable , because of the maudlin series on TV ) . A young man vi... |
583,148 | 1,219,578 | 45,678 | 4 | and desert movie . . . | The legion étrangère has always been a topic that makes people dream . Lots and lots of movies were made , not only in France . Here , the most famous are probably Duvivier's " la bandera " and Jacques Feyder's " le grand jeu " . Twas also one of Edith Piaf's favorite subjects of song ( le fanion de la légion , mon lég... |
583,484 | 1,219,578 | 372,824 | 4 | An improvement on " la cage aux rossignols " ? | La cage aux rossignols , released in 1945 , was one of the last movies of the occupation days . " Les choristes " , although they have transposed the action to the fifties , hints at it when a young brat breaks into " maréchal , nous voilà ! " , anthem of those dark years . The question is : was it necessary to redo ... |
584,630 | 1,219,578 | 30,706 | 4 | You don't change a winning team . . . | . . . that's why , the year after " Quai des Brumes " , one of Marcel Carné's best films , here they are again : Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan . The movie was recently broadcast on the French TV and it's a big disappointment , particularly coming from a scenarist like Charles Spaak . First of all , the action takes pla... |
584,113 | 1,219,578 | 90,090 | 4 | Back to family life . . . | Pierre Joliver's works often mix fantastic with daily life . His most exciting work , " simple mortal " was an impressive sci-fi work without the special effects paraphernalia . Most of his other works , although ambitious , fail because of weak endings and cast ( Alan Bates is the only real actor in " force majeur " t... |
583,812 | 1,219,578 | 56,504 | 4 | Don't look back , Mrs Lot ! | Don't look back , viewer either ! It was obviously intended to match the scale and quality ( and commercial success ) of Cecil Blount De Mille's " ten commandments " . So they gave Stewart Granger the Mosis / Heston look , they hire a cast of thousands ( of hundreds more like ) and they looked into the Bible to find id... |
583,693 | 1,219,578 | 80,186 | 4 | Heroes ? | It's difficult , while watching this Giovanni flick , not to think of Jacques Becker's " le trou " ( 1959 ) , the script of which he wrote . But whereas the heroes of Becker's masterpiece were digging a hole to escape from jail , the " heroes " of " les egouts " are digging a tunnel to rob a bank . The characters are n... |
583,190 | 1,219,578 | 120,768 | 4 | Routine thriller . | The negociator takes two topics : hostage-taking incidents and financial wheeling dand dealings in the police , neither of which is that much very exciting nowadays , threadbare indeed . The first ingredient was already in William Wyler's " desperate hours " ( 1955 ) and reached its peak with Sidney Lumet's " Dog Day... |
584,664 | 1,219,578 | 219,699 | 4 | the crew that made this supposedly fantastic thriller wasn't gifted at all ! | Possible spoilers . . . Nowadays , psychological fantastic is a cinematographic genre that is so much successful that several film-makers ( who aren't however specialized in this domain ) tried their hand at it . Some of them perfectly succeeded their conversion like Adrian Lyne with " Jacob's Ladder " ( 1990 ) while o... |
585,071 | 1,219,578 | 72,337 | 4 | Another Mocky's botched job . | Jean - Pierre Mocky has made a lot of movies ; few gained critical acclaim and few ( if any ) were commercial successes . Although an adaptation of an American novel , the movie is Frenchie to the core . It has , mainly in its first part a crude dialog , using the word " baiser " ( = f . . . ) in almost every line . Th... |
584,297 | 1,219,578 | 50,390 | 4 | Cheesy | In the second half of the fifties , Henri Decoin's natural flair for film noir was slowly but inexorably fading away . " Le Feu aux Poudres " is a mediocre flick but what was to come later was worse , a dreadful spate of turkeys : only maybe " Malefices " based on a Boileau / Narcejac novel would deserve to be watched ... |
584,895 | 1,219,578 | 237,534 | 4 | The more you pay , the more it's worth ? | I have my doubts . " Le pacte des loups " , French biggest budget so far , tries so hard to " sound American " - or should I say , hollywoodian - that sometimes we forget that the action takes place during Louis the Fifteenth's reign in France . The first part is relatively watchable , because of the splendid landscape... |
584,741 | 1,219,578 | 429,203 | 4 | a little game in which the viewer is the loser | Bernard Rapp passed away last year and was a very cultured journalist . Cinema was one of his biggest passions ( he penned a vast worldwide dictionary of films ) and so he was bound to wield a camera at least one time in his life . But the films he left garnered lukewarm reviews : " Tiré à Part " ( 1996 ) in spite of T... |
583,767 | 1,219,578 | 448,802 | 4 | Where have you been , Anastasia ? | Do not let the title fool you . Even if there're murders in this movie , it's not that bloody . Actually , the film reminds me of one of Lautner's best films " La Maison Assassinée " ( 1988 ) . Unfortunately , Nicolas Guillou's screenplay is rather weak and the lines particularly mediocre . " La Maison Assassinée " con... |
583,110 | 1,219,578 | 182,357 | 4 | Who are they ? Where do they come from ? Where do they go ? | I think that " les parasites " is a hypocritical movie . Worse , it's a movie that doesn't focus on the main topic at all . However , the title of the movie is sufficient enough to draw the attention to the movie . You expect to see a place and a precise time ( here it happens to be a New Year's Eve party ) turned upsi... |
582,828 | 1,219,578 | 50,244 | 4 | No secrets | The fifties were a great time for the French thriller ; those years saw Decoin's " La Verite Sur Bebe Donge " , Allégret's " Manèges " , Salavsky's " Les Louves " , Delannoy's unfairly overlooked " Obsession " , and to top all of them HG Clouzot's IMDb top 250 " Diaboliques " . And Duvivier's masterful " Voici le Temps... |
584,079 | 1,219,578 | 63,263 | 4 | Boring ! | Boileau-Narcejac's novels are anything but boring : everyone knows what Alfred Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot did with " d'entre les morts " and " " celle qui n'était plus " : " Vertigo " and " les diaboliques " both in the IMDb top 250 . Sergio Gobbi adapted " maldonne " and , unlike his illustrious ( and much su... |
584,359 | 1,219,578 | 78,038 | 4 | The multinationals work behind the scenes . . . | . . . and stay behind the scenes . A bizarre cast gathers French actors ( Chabrol's favorite , Michel Bouquet , Bruno Cremer , Pierre Santini , Henri Serre - remember Jim in " Jules et Jim " ? - ) , an actress who was also the script writer , under another name , and American stars such as Joseph Cotten and Dennis Hopp... |
583,071 | 1,219,578 | 198,542 | 4 | Fortunately . . . . | . . . . the White Man is here to help the natives who are no more than big children . That says it all ! Proof positive , one more time , that finer feelings do not produce great works . De Baroncelli is not much of a director , and his two stars , Victor Francen and Harry Baur , left to their own devices , overract in... |
585,586 | 1,219,578 | 65,516 | 4 | Wonderful soundtrack but the movie is not up to scratch . | The precedent user was right : the score by Ennio Morricone - who remains one of the greatest of all - is tuneful , splendid , perfect . It's when you deal with the movie that things go wrong . . First of all , Romy Schneider - an actress I like very much though - is miscast as an Italian woman . In her diary published... |
585,414 | 1,219,578 | 415,932 | 4 | The onset of " Lemming " is catchy but then it gets bogged down in oil slick | In 2000 , Dominik Moll had introduced us Harry in " With a Friend Like Harry " ( 2000 ) , a charismatic and mysterious character admirably acted by Sergi Lopez who by wishing Michel's well had managed to break his peaceful household although it was a bit on the edge on a knife . Five years later , he returned to the at... |
583,793 | 1,219,578 | 39,234 | 4 | The supervisor does not work wonders , neither does the film . | This movie features a bunch of children locked up in a reform school under a nasty headmaster's thumb ; then comes a very nice human supervisor played by Noël-Noël . And presto , the naughty brats become angels with golden voices who set up a choir , and the distinguished old ladies who visit the school are on cloud ni... |
582,442 | 1,219,578 | 118,080 | 4 | Boileau - Narcejac or the victim's detective story . | Boileau-Narcejac's novels are deceptive : it is hard to make a truly bad film from them while being harder still to really succeed . Theirs is the victim's detective story , their permanent feature not only in the present work " les victimes " . It ' s always the story of a hero being framed ( generally a man ) , and w... |
583,051 | 1,219,578 | 91,799 | 4 | Gimme back my mum ! | Perkins brought out all the Hitchcock equipment and tried to recapture all that " psycho II " failed to do : the essence of the greatest thriller of all time . A cat that would try to catch its tail perhaps could in the end . It would take some time . " Psycho III " is a jumble where all the ideas are taken from Robert... |
584,445 | 1,219,578 | 74,333 | 4 | Justice is unfair . . . | . . . to the Rich . That might be the obnoxious moral of this Jose Giovanni film . The director was more inspired when he directed Delon in " Deux Hommes Dans la Ville " , which was a strong plea against death penalty or even later in " Mon Père . . Il M'a sauvé La Vie " A former gangster ( Delon ) is on the right trac... |
585,176 | 1,219,578 | 120,004 | 4 | a story with little substance supposedly compensated by special effects and a dark cinematography | Peter Hyams's career followed an indisputable downswing in the nineties during which he came to direct mediocre vehicles for Jean Claude Van Damme such as " Timecop " ( 1994 ) , " Sudden Death " ( 1995 ) or for Arnold Schwarzenegger with the ludicrous " End of Days " ( 1999 ) . It's all the more dismaying as he signed ... |
583,945 | 1,219,578 | 56,848 | 4 | Breathless transporter | Bonnardot was obviously anxious to prove that he too could be like the big boys of the New Wavelet ; seen today his " Ballade pour un Voyou " sounds like a parboiled cross between Godard ' s notorious " A Bout de Soufflé " and " the transporter " this mediocre Luc Besson production . Vincent Vivant ( = Vincent Alive " ... |
584,612 | 1,219,578 | 118,237 | 4 | Actually a Henry James short story . . | . . which features , like " the turn of the screw " - which Jack Clayton adapted for the screen under the title " the innocents " ( 1961 ) - , a private tutor and a child . But unlike Clayton's unforgettable movie , there is nothing supernatural here . The film begins quite well , in a castle where ruined aristocrats e... |
584,847 | 1,219,578 | 64,694 | 4 | rather less . . . | Like many other people , I've heard about " more " and I wanted to watch it due to the music that was composed by Pink Floyd . I must say that I was truly disappointed , not because of the music but the movie in itself . it's a boring insipid movie that lacks rhythm . Where does this disappointment come from ? Accordin... |
583,757 | 1,219,578 | 139,134 | 4 | Choderlos de Laclos and our times . | When Stephen Frears made his much superior version , not only he cast two great thespians ( Glenn Close and JOhn Malkovich ) but he did not transpose the action to our times . Neither did Milos Forman for that matter . This movie repeats Roger Vadim's colossal mistake of the sixties ( " les liaisons dangereuses 1960 " ... |
583,056 | 1,219,578 | 96,073 | 4 | The omens | The seventh sign borrows a lot from " Rosemary's baby " and " the omen " ( it actually blends the two stories ) . Even its title recalls Bergman ' s " the seventh seal " . Nevertheless , it begins well enough , with all the omens scattered on the whole earth , and in parallel , a - seemingly - distinct plot with Moor... |
584,029 | 1,219,578 | 118,158 | 4 | You shall be a man my son . | At first sight , this is an entertaining movie . But what lies beneath is a very obnoxious moral , and the final lines on the screen before the final cast and credits are a dubious proof that this voyage made men of the youngsters . Far from his beautiful character of " fearless " , Bridges portrays here a macho man - ... |
585,192 | 1,219,578 | 47,113 | 4 | A brothel ? Really ? | Another movie about the white slave trade , a subject the French cinema was fond of : in the thirties Robert Siodmak made " Le Chemin De Rio " aka " Cargaison Blanche " . The working title of " Les Impures " was " Des Femmes Disparaissent " ( Women vanish ) and this title would be used for another movie about the same ... |
582,385 | 1,219,578 | 67,710 | 4 | Violent and absurd thriller . | Yves Boisset has always been a director with a political obsession . IN the seventies , he hit his stride with such work as " RAS " , " Dupont-Lajoie - ( which will probably remains his best work - and even " le juge Fayard dit le shériff " . Afterward , his filmography became more disparate , but his ambitions surface... |
585,371 | 1,219,578 | 85,333 | 4 | deadly vehicle round 2 | From the eighties onwards , it became trendy to adapt one of the most prolific and popular American writers , Stephen King for the silver screen and the telly . I must say that I'm not a devotee of his work at all . Ditto for John Carpenter whose filmography didn't embellish the horror / fantasy genre except maybe at a... |
585,587 | 1,219,578 | 95,905 | 4 | Annie Girardot back to jail . . | One of her earlier parts , " mourir d'aimer " ( André Cayatte , 1970 ) , based on a true story led her to jail . Here again , she plays one of the unfortunate inmates who make teddy bears to earn some money In jail . The " prison for women " is a very hard subject to deal with , and here the director was not up to scra... |
584,046 | 1,219,578 | 58,580 | 4 | Quine and Wilder . | Richard Quine sems here to pay a tribute to Billy Wilder : " some like it hot " and Jack Lemmon are mentioned several times , and Tony Curtis ' presence is eloquent . But , by doing so , Quine recalls us the gulf between him and " the seven years itch " director . All what Quine says , Wilder has already said it , in s... |
583,781 | 1,219,578 | 89,092 | 4 | USFO | Unidentified Sci-Fi Object . What is it ? An update of Boorman's " duel in the Pacific " ? A remake of " Robinson Crusoe on Mars " ? But if it's so , who's Robinson ? and who's Friday ? A pean to universal fraternity ? Or most likely , in the last third , some kind of Rambo fighting alone against his own race to save a... |
584,032 | 1,219,578 | 185,284 | 4 | Amsterdamned again ! | When a so called lovable little girl is involved in a suspense story , what do you expect ? Certainly not the unexpected ! You can see in her eyes that the villains will not get the upper hand . The more helpless she seems , the stronger she is when danger comes around . Dumb but not dumb ! The supporting cast is waste... |
582,585 | 1,219,578 | 397,101 | 4 | They do it with mirrors ( so no mirrors in my house ) . | Correct me if I'm wrong but I would venture that too many people could say they look to " skeleton key " for New Horizons in the fantasy and horror films . Still with me ? Then I'm prepared to say that you will not be disappointed with this film ; shucks , you will probably even like it . The presence of two very earne... |
582,648 | 1,219,578 | 155,975 | 4 | Why ? | The most disposable movie in the history of cinema ? This one is a strong contender ! Why wasting so much money for such a pointless useless work ? The only difference between the HItchcock classic and this poor imitation is color , wide screen and Leila's Walkman ! ! A movie which's supposed to generate thrills and fe... |
582,372 | 1,219,578 | 71,799 | 4 | Detective story in a posh milieu | Do not let Michel Bouquet's presence fool you . Yes , he was the prototype of the bourgeois Chabrolesque character at the turn of the decade , bourgeois people the director of " la femme infidèle " or " la rupture " despised . Chabrol's bite is terribly lacking here . " La main à couper " is nothing more than a very tr... |
584,573 | 1,219,578 | 83,252 | 4 | Blast from the past | When we were children , we swore we'd always remember : our school teacher was killed during WW2 by the Nazis , because of an informer . When we grew up , we would kill this b . . . . . . Now they are grown-ups , and only one of them seems to want to see it through . The others ' objections are numerous : " he " was on... |
584,462 | 1,219,578 | 81,339 | 4 | When the actors overplay | Robert Enrico was at his best during the sixties , " les aventuriers " ( 1966 ) and " tante Zita " ( 1967 ) ; although deemed " commercial " at the time , these two works have something of a dirge . Actress Johanna Shimkus dies in the former - and her funeral under the sea is one of the most extraordinary sequence of t... |
583,675 | 1,219,578 | 115,638 | 4 | Molinaro , the scatterbrained | Beaumarchais , l'insolent is definitely a disappointment . First , by reading the title , you could have thought that the movie would embrace Beaumarchais ' whole life : from his childhood until his death . Well , it's not the case . It only focuses on the most important part of Beaumarchais ' life . The one that tak... |
584,766 | 1,219,578 | 48,667 | 4 | Anthony Mann ? ? | An anonymous film which could have been directed by anyone at all . Where is Anthony Mann , the director of such classics as " El Cid " " the naked spur " or " the man from Laramie " ? There are marvelous shots of planes in the clouds , lovingly filmed . The story is very trite , and almost completely devoid of dramati... |
582,506 | 1,219,578 | 60,374 | 4 | In the wake of James Bond | England had James Bond . France had OSS117 and Coplan , and SAS for those whose taste runs that way . None of them became an international star as Ian Fleming's hero did . Riccardo Freda is the entertainment director par excellence . He did horror movies , swashbucklers , sword and sandals , melodramas . . and spy thri... |
585,356 | 1,219,578 | 49,491 | 4 | Damned Dam ! | Yves Allégret had already directed Gérard Philipe in " Les Orgueilleux " , one of his best movies . But by the mid-fifties , his inspiration which had produced such classic films noirs such as " Dédée d'Anvers " " Une Si Jolie Petite Plage " , the highly superior " Manèges " and " les Orgueilleux " began to dry up . Ge... |
584,745 | 1,219,578 | 155,040 | 4 | Too late for Henry Decoin ! | Imagine that Danielle Darrieux's character in " Abus de Confiance " ( 1938 ) has become , twenty years later , a famous brilliant lawyer . The comparison does not stops there : in the final scenes , Michèle Morgan's defense speech recalls Darrieux's first one in the 1938 work . Morgan rants about the perils of alcoholi... |
584,278 | 1,219,578 | 228,838 | 4 | Threshold of the void for the audience too . . . | Jean-François Davy is more renowned in his native France for his pornographic movies than for his foray into the fantastic genre . In 1971 , fantasy and horror movies were completely unusual in France and the last important work the country had produced in the field takes us back to the early sixties ( " les yeux sans ... |
582,933 | 1,219,578 | 129,387 | 4 | Yes , she only causes torments ! | One of the most successful movies launched in 1998 and as far as I'm concerned , I find it hard for me to explain the reason of this enormous success because this movie is devoid of interest . I'd like to speak well of this comedy but I can't succeed in . However , the main idea of the movie was interesting . This is t... |
583,221 | 1,219,578 | 53,666 | 4 | Female clerks | Chabrol , although labeled " Nouvelle Vague " has never forgotten to tell a story . It has made him the heir of a long tradition of the psychological French thriller ( Clouzot , Duvivier , Decoin ) . Even his earlier efforts ( " Le Beau Serge " " A Double Tour " " Les Cousins " ) had painstaking well-constructed screen... |
584,347 | 1,219,578 | 53,663 | 4 | Another impossible love . | It was not the first time Claude Autant-Lara had broached the impossible love subject . His " le diable au corps " from Raymond Radiguet remains one of the great classics of the French cinema . It's not good news this time . WW2 , in occupied Brittany : a military German woman comes to visit her husband , a Kommandatur... |
585,127 | 1,219,578 | 117,351 | 4 | but also one of the hardest . . . | With this movie , Gérard Lauzier decided to broach a particularly delicate topic on a comedy tone : difficult suburbs in France . But for me , his movie isn't really successful for two main reasons . First , it reminded me a lot of " Dangerous Minds " ( 1995 ) starring Michele Pfeiffer . The less we can say is that her... |
583,312 | 1,219,578 | 88,671 | 4 | Philippe Leotard deserved better ! | Philippe Leotard was a very talented actor who passed away recently . Since his debut ( his first important part was in the war movie " avoir vingt ans dans les Aurès " though he already was in TRuffault - who " invented " him , they say - in " domicile conjugal " ) , he remained an interesting personality , a Serge Ga... |
584,731 | 1,219,578 | 291,542 | 4 | Juliette capitulates . Romeo is moaning . | The pregnant girl ( and of course unmarried ) has always been the permanent feature in the French cinema of the south of France . Blame it on Marcel Pagnol ! Recently " La Ville est tranquille " was an updated version of Pagnol's classics of the thirties / forties . " Le Ventre de Juliette " is more of the same . All t... |
583,114 | 1,219,578 | 196,420 | 4 | it's nobody's fault ! | C'est pas ma faute is just a gentle comedy where the actors do what they can to give it punch . But it turns out to be trite because it's a well-worn topic : a restless child who causes disasters everywhere he goes and they wish to get rid of him as soon as possible . Not only is it a gentle movie but for a major par... |
584,154 | 1,219,578 | 117,318 | 4 | a mixed biography for one of the kings of pornography | A Czech director who emigrated in the USA in the seventies , Milos Forman , these last years specialized in biographies : " Larry Flynt " ( 1996 ) and he was to shot " Man on the Moon " three years later about the life of the comedian Andy Kaufman . After a seven year absence ( his last movie was " Valmont " in 1989 ) ... |
582,647 | 1,219,578 | 119,567 | 4 | it's the same thing as the first movie : worth seeing for its special effects | The idea of a sequel to the most successful movie made in 1993 stayed rooted in people's minds . Moreover , in the first movie , Sam Neil was astonished by found out that " dinosaurs are breeding ! " . However , scientifics who used to work for the " jurassic park " had developed a process that had to make the dinosaur... |
585,209 | 1,219,578 | 383,966 | 4 | Talk , talk . Not enough Darroussin . | This little comedy begins well enough with a flat invaded by moths . Victoria Abril in the shop trying to understand the difference between flying and creeping insects is good fun . Her argument ( You cannot kill these poor things ! They are animals ! It's murder ! ) with partner Darroussin is even better : his comical... |
583,307 | 1,219,578 | 144,084 | 4 | John Cale imitates Herrmann . | I have always admired John Cale , as a former Velvet Underground member and as a solo artist . Here he gives us his Hermann act , and much of the score recalls the strident brilliance of " Psycho " , notably during the scene Bale joins the gay golden boy in the bathroom . Of course , it does not match Bernard Herrmann'... |
582,371 | 1,219,578 | 69,439 | 4 | An ersatz Chabrol movie . | The turn of the decade ( sixties / seventies ) was Chabrol ' s heyday . To reproduce his ( commercial and critical ) success , the same ingredients were chosen ( a murder mystery , a bourgeois house , Stephane Audran , Chabrol's then wife playing parts of twin sisters - after Olivia de Havilland , why not her ? - , Cha... |
585,070 | 1,219,578 | 51,398 | 4 | Even John Huston can make turkeys . . | There are often badly-matched couples ( in the general sense of the term ) - in Huston's movies : " African Queen " " Heaven knows Mister Allison " " roots of Heaven " " Misfits " . . . " The Barbarian and the geisha " ( check the title ) is another good example , so to speak . It seems that Japanese stuff was trendy a... |
585,467 | 1,219,578 | 117,468 | 4 | Looks like a cartoon . | A cross between " time machine " ( at a small range ) " the groundhog day " and a road movie , " Retroactive " is not to be taken seriously ( ! ) . Belushi's acting verges on a cartoon villain : he looks like Tweety Pie's Sylvester . There's some black humor , mainly in the first part ; it tends to become repetitive af... |
585,053 | 1,219,578 | 268,755 | 5 | All along the watchtower | Brother Mike and sister Kate have lost their father and the boy finds it hard to get over this death . Kate finds him a job on a watchtower while she's busy fishing . Alas he has to team up with an impostor , a serial killer ( Berenger ) . Tom Berenger is the only reason why you'd like to watch this umpteenth story of ... |
585,272 | 1,219,578 | 19,480 | 5 | Too gentle | Tire - au - flanc belongs to a genre which is really an acquired taste , the coarse comedy . It reached its peak in the thirties when Raimu and Fernandel starred in " les Gaietés de l'Escadron " or " Ignace " , not those two actors at their best . It's not because a movie was made by Jean Renoir ( or . . . . . fill i... |
582,693 | 1,219,578 | 75,938 | 5 | Robert Bresson's least satisfying film , probably | What prompted me to shoot this film is the waste we have made of everything . It's this mass civilization in which the human being won't exist any more . This mad restlessness . This huge demolition undertaking where we will die where we thought we lived . It's also the astounding indifference from people in general e... |
583,748 | 1,219,578 | 283,957 | 5 | It's not Benoît Poelvoorde who is the millstone but the movie itself ! | Launched in the Spring 2002 in France , " le boulet " was hugely successful ( more than 3 million of spectators in the French theaters ) . Why ? This success remains both mysterious and unexplainable because Alain Berbérian's movie's got every conceivable fault , every fault imaginable so that you can name it : the per... |
583,418 | 1,219,578 | 120,399 | 5 | U Turn away from this movie | With " U-Turn " , it seems that Oliver Stone ( Platoon , 1986 , JFK , 1991 , Natural Born Killers , 1994 ) wanted to prove his ability to shoot a thriller with simplicity and efficiency . I must acknowledge that I couldn't wait to discover his 1997 film because of its offbeat , eerie story . It's a real downward spiral... |
585,247 | 1,219,578 | 106,977 | 5 | on the run . . . | An adaptation of a famous TV series , " the fugitive " was a blockbuster when it was launched in 1993 . Did I enjoy it ? Yes and no . . . We deal with a spirited action movie , led without any dead times and with a well-balanced performance . I was told that Tommy Lee Jones almost stole the show from Harrison Ford . Ho... |
583,082 | 1,219,578 | 116,555 | 5 | to believe in love and happiness ( instructions leaflet ) | I remember that this Claude Lelouch effort was surrounded by much hype when it reached the streets in 1996 . In general , when they are theatrically released , the director's efforts follow this media pattern and it probably reveals his narcissistic side . But " Hommes Femmes Mode D'Emploi " caused a stir due to the pr... |
585,030 | 1,219,578 | 35,128 | 5 | How to marry a millionaire | It is a rather silly plot . As a lot of playboys cannot pay their debts anymore , their creditors suggest one of them marry a millionaire's daughter . They even will have a " coach " , a former Don Juan : he will teach them everything to seduce a woman from dancing to a kiss . He is not himself attractive anymore but h... |
585,407 | 1,219,578 | 107,002 | 5 | something's lacking . . . | Prior to this most recent cover of Emile Zola's novel by Claude Berri , they were various renderings on the silver screen before . A silent version was shot in 1913 and remains difficult to watch . In 1962 , Yves Allégret's version of Zola's sprawling novel followed very closely the thread of the storytelling which cam... |
583,476 | 1,219,578 | 30,534 | 5 | The hostages . | Raymond Bernard will be remembered for his moving " les croix de bois " . You can find an excellent comment by Eric Sayettat on the IMDb . " Les otages " which career was stopped by WW2 is far from being as strong . In 1938 , a lot of movies were verging on propaganda , and " les otages " was part of them . Okay , two ... |
584,307 | 1,219,578 | 191,414 | 5 | Damn the torpedoes ! | A young man ( René Dary who made his debut as " Bébé " for Louis Feuillade circa 1910 was already too old for the part : 33 ) is a rebel without a cause : obeying orders , respecting his superiors is too much for him , in spite of his father's sound pieces of advice . For a boy like that , joining the navy is perhaps n... |
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