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The circus is in town
In the wake of her brilliant " Whatever happened to Baby Jane " ( 1962 ) , with a pleasing grasp of continuity , Joan Crawford continued in the thriller vein . Unfortunately there is no Robert Aldrich here ( and no Bette Davis either ) . Actually we are closer to " Straight Jacket " ( 1964 ) which was a hilarious camp ...
582,367
1,219,578
91,535
5
Cold as a grave .
This movie enjoys a very good reputation in France . This is a bleak depressing dirge-like effort . A cop ( Marielle ) has lost his daughter ( killed by her mother , now in an insane asylum ) and he acts as if she's still alive , telling her about his investigation into a horrible murder . The last lines , when the det...
584,343
1,219,578
318,773
5
Prince Charming in reverse .
How tempting ! A serial killer which would not be like the other ones . Here the " criminal " does not kill himself , he invites his victims to read " Tristan and Iseut " ( a hardback edition is de rigueur ) , then to live with him a passionate affair like the two doomed lovers ; and as their love is " impossible " he ...
585,242
1,219,578
116,445
5
a disappointment in Patrice Leconte's work
After a series of movies all excellent since " Tandem " ( 1987 ) , " les grands ducs " is the first real disappointment from Patrice Leconte . Critics and public slagged it off when the movie was released in the beginning of 1996 . What to say about this film ? It isn't a really bad movie . What surprises is the rapidi...
582,509
1,219,578
72,359
5
Gabin wanted Sophia Loren . . . .
. . . . And he won the case . " Verdict " is however one Cayatte too many . Realism which saved " justice est faite " " les risques du metier " and solid screenplays which made " avant le deluge " or " le glaive et la balance interesting if overblown works became some kind of " enough is enough " . For the first time i...
583,176
1,219,578
240,772
5
Soderbergh's good movie
I think that " Ocean's eleven " is an overrated movie ( 7 . on imdb ) but it's nonetheless a pleasant movie . It goes down well thanks to a clever and often inventive directing , smart dialogs and a well-run troop of actors . George Clooney dominates the cast . Steven Soderbergh's movie also enjoys a screenplay that is...
584,763
1,219,578
120,828
5
holidays in the sun . . .
Do you know Francis Veber ? He's one of the most popular French film-maker . He owes his success thanks to a comic method which he knows the secret . It's the confrontation of two people who have got a different disposition but are compelled to cohabit together in an unfriendly environment . This situation is told in a...
584,900
1,219,578
80,009
5
Roman Polanski tried a new direction and it was the deadlock
When Roman Polanski begins to shoot " Tess " , he has behind him a prestigious filmography scattered with works which became landmark films in their respective categories . Thus , " Repulsion " ( 1965 ) and " Le Locataire " ( 1976 ) are half realist , half fantastic gems in which he demonstrated that ambiguity was his ...
584,602
1,219,578
48,044
5
Elephants walk .
Allan Dwan seems more interested in filming the elephants than he is in directing his actors . Most of the time , excellent actors such as Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan are left to their own devices : it's obvious in their first meeting and in the intimate scenes . As for the story , if you have not guessed that Rya...
583,297
1,219,578
39,179
5
As the miller told his tale . . . .
. . . the viewer's face turned a whiter shade of pale ! The first film using the Rouxcolor process ( and also the last ) , the film was made to fight against American color movies which could attract the French audience to the detriment of their local production . Today the film has lost most of its pristine charm : it...
583,938
1,219,578
65,462
5
What lies beneath
Actually nothing extraordinary . Pierre Boulle's novel and Shaffner's movie had different endings , so you could not ask the French writer for a sequel . This one uses shots from the first one , and allows us to see the fascinating " discovery " scene once more . As for Ted Post's work , it's OK . Nothing extraordinary...
583,643
1,219,578
240,709
5
Fair adaptation of a childhood classic .
Almost all actor Jean-Claude Brialy ' s films revolve around childhood : " Eglantine " , his charming debut featured an old grandma ( Valentine Tessier ) who used to gather her grandsons and granddaughters in her mansion . The fact that he adapted the comtesse de Segur's works afterwards made sense : the world of this ...
583,198
1,219,578
120,018
5
The title is apt as far as the second part is concerned .
This Chabrol's movie begins well with funny characters , Michel Serrault cast as a bogus colonel , Huppert , as a bogus femme fatale , and FRançois Cluzet as a security guard working for shady guys . The scenes in the ski resort and on the plane , with a witty dialog including money , of course , gastronomy , army ( Ah...
584,520
1,219,578
55,032
5
menage à Trois
François Truffaut's third film is generally celebrated as a benchmark in his filmography but also in the Nouvelle Vague and even of the whole French cinema . Once again , such paeans of praise for this good but by no means extraordinary work go beyond me . A lot of viewers seemed to have been conquered by this story wh...
582,920
1,219,578
315,152
5
Ah ! I wish the French scriptwriters were a little more inspired !
This is the story of Aldo Bonnard , a modest representative for a capillary products firm who's having a rough time : he's about to divorce his wife Alice and his new boss , Gérard is a hypocritical and despotic man . To crown it all , he discovers that his wife has a love affair with his boss ! But one day , he wins t...
585,462
1,219,578
309,390
5
When there's a will , there's a way ? ?
To get the custody of her child , Clarence , Bridget would do anything . The most interesting line of an uneven dialog is this strange lapsus when the woman speaks of her childREN . In her mind she's got two of them : the boy and her husband , a retarded man she married because his father promised her a lot of dough if...
583,605
1,219,578
93,713
5
In an Italian rural way .
In spite of the presence of Bergman's veteran Max Von Sydow , this movie harks back to the Italian rural cinema of the seventies , with a zest of " ladri di biciclette " thrown in . The very long Italian sagas of the seventies , " novecento " ( 1976 , Bertolucci ) and " l'albero degi zoccoli " ( 1978 , Ermano Olmi ) co...
584,027
1,219,578
87,469
5
the worst of the trilogy
the raiders of the lost ark was a huge commercial and critical success in 1981 . So it was almost inevitable that it was followed by a sequel . This sequel was " Indiana Jones and the temple of doom " and sadly this is a rather poor sequel . If Steven Spielberg takes back the good old recipes that made Indiana Jones'...
585,232
1,219,578
51,103
5
Five little Indians
This Decoin effort has still got a good reputation in France . It's far from perfect though and the problem is that the screenplay hesitates between pure film noir and comedy . Besides , writer Albert Simonin is not Georges Simenon ; nor is he Boileau-Narcejac or Frédéric Dard : the lines are witless and the suspense s...
584,997
1,219,578
62,671
5
The Taggart tag along . . .
Whatever happened to baby Jane was a turning point in Bette Davis's career . " Hush hush sweet Charlotte " was almost as good , and she got first-class support from De Havilland , Cotten and Moorehead . With " the nanny " , and without a Robert Aldrich to direct , the formula began to wear thin . " The nanny " is an ...
585,427
1,219,578
80,761
5
A blueprint for sequels - to-come .
The first " Friday ' retains a - relative - appeal ; it was filmed on location : the forest surrounding the fateful lake provides enough darkness and dangers to satisfy gore afficionados . There was a script , rudimentary admittedly , but a story anyway . The plot was inspired by Agatha Christie's " and then there were...
584,093
1,219,578
98,238
5
Part two .
Part two begins with the royal family's incarceration and ends with Robespierre's fall in the Summer of 1794 . Since Balmer ( Louis XVI ) disappears , and for a good reason , in the first half-hour , it's Klaus Maria Brandauer who walks away with the honors in this second episode . His Danton is a bon vivant , nice , a...
582,958
1,219,578
109,386
5
when war is at the gate of your holiday place
This Gérard Jugnot vehicle attests of his own approach of French comedy : to take a serious theme and move it in the domain of the comedy . In his previous effort , " une Epoque Formidable " ( 1991 ) , he had been interested by homeless people whom he introduced , with humor as deeply united and resourceful . In this "...
584,387
1,219,578
22,215
5
Propaganda now dates this movie .
The greatest silent movies are generally free of any propaganda . Such is not the case with " Odna " which was recently restored with a complete soundtrack . The last pictures are a paean to socialism which " everybody has got to build " in a country where we all stand together . And if the message is not clear enough ...
585,404
1,219,578
254,686
5
a few notches below the usual Michael Haneke production
Michael Haneke is one of the most innovative filmmakers of these last years and he must be given credit to take contemporary cinema in new territories . In a handful of films all disturbing which shatter our consciences and with a recognizable trademark , he created his own universe , a formidable one in which it is da...
582,458
1,219,578
52,769
5
a witness of the surge of French New Wave ( let )
At the dawn of the sixties in France , the New Wave was like a tsunami on the shore of the domain of French cinema and even nowadays , it still fuels many movie-lovers ' bickering . Claude Chabrol shot two works in a row : " le Beau Serge " ( 1958 ) , " les Cousins " ( 1959 ) and they were the jewels of the New Wave cr...
582,960
1,219,578
58,620
5
Camp at its most hilarious !
In 1960 , " Psycho " made Robert Bloch a famous horror writer . In 1963 , " whatever happened to Baby Jane ? " made Bette Davis and Joan Crawford potential actresses for horror flicks . Davis carried on with Aldrich in " Hush hush sweet Charlotte " while Crawford had to content herself with William Castle , not a bad c...
583,960
1,219,578
397,065
5
Waxing a movie . . .
The subject is not new , there were lots and lots of movie where people became waxworks in museums . Andre de Toth has an eponymous movie ( 1952 ) where the criminal was in love with a waxy Marie Antoinette . Okay the final special effects are quite impressive when the whole house is melting . But the best scenes are t...
584,326
1,219,578
369,339
5
Tom Cruise + Michael Mann = a tepid thriller
Max ( Jamie Foxx ) is a taxi driver in Los Angeles and works mainly at night . It's a nine to five work reversed as far as the time is concerned . A humdrum life which he dreams of escaping . One night , after he took a lovely black lawyer , he accepts the alluring offering of 600 dollars from a weird , cynical custome...
584,563
1,219,578
265,086
5
Ridley Scott + Jerry Bruckheimer : a so-so war movie
The third movie made by Ridley Scott in less than two years after " Gladiator " ( 2000 ) and " Hannibal " ( 2001 ) , " Black Hawk Down " is a movie too much for him just like it's a movie too much in the genre of the war movie . Yes , I know it enjoys a very good mark on this site ( 7 . ) but I don't think it is fully ...
585,319
1,219,578
24,315
5
Aristocracy vs manufacturers .
The cast and credits read " a film by Fernand Rivers supervised by Abel Gance " . Gaby Morlay in one of her countless melodramas . She plays a young aristocrat whose family is completely broke . Her fiancé , a duke marries her rival , a rich lumpish bourgeois . So she marries in money with a wealthy manufacturer but sh...
582,993
1,219,578
136,912
5
Blistering
Marcel Blistene was an odd-job man of the French cinema . His movies dealt with Edith Piaf , comics character Bibi Fricotin , saints ( " Le Sorcier Du Ciel " a biopic of the Curé D'Ars which I saw at Sunday school and which scared me to death ) and more . . " Le Feu Dans La Peau " got a PG 18 when it was released and v...
584,986
1,219,578
133,093
5
What the hell is the " Matrix ? "
Launched in 1999 and one of the most successful movies of the year , " Matrix " is an amazing movie . It ranks among the movies that leave the spectator bemused , even after several projections . In a way , it's very similar to Paul Verhoeven's movie " Total Recall " ( 1990 ) . The two movies have got a complicated but...
584,836
1,219,578
57,216
5
The second part . . . .
. . . . of an exotic adventure yarn . The French telly never bothered to show the first part , but fortunately , " mistero del tempo indiano " begins with a ten-minute summary of the precedent episode . Obviously intended to match the scale of Fritz Lang's two-part " Der Tiger von Eschnapur " ( 1959 ) , it cannot hold ...
583,281
1,219,578
154,329
5
Nous Avons Fait Un Beau Voyage . . .
Ciboulette is primarily an operetta so if your cup of tea is , say , Mozart , Miles Davis or the Beatles , this might possibly bore you . For they sing every five minutes . To my ears , the only tune I find palatable is the lovely " Nous Avons Fait un Beau Voyage " . The story : Ciboulette is a market gardener in lov...
584,525
1,219,578
309,593
5
death like time's got her own plans 2
Many horror movie fans were pleasantly surprised by the discovery in 2000 of " Finale Destination " . Its author , James Wong who cut his teeth on the X-Files saga ( I'm not a fan at all of this series ) had made a killing with this classy B movie which encompassed teenage , slasher , fantastic and horror movie in the ...
582,729
1,219,578
102,869
5
What are these secrets ?
This is a sketches film introducing the Apfelglück doctor ( Thierry Lhermitte ) and four of his patients who are living each other a weird or embarrasing adventure . Among these patients , there is Jacques Villeret who's got to spend the night in a disturbing hotel . Philippe Bruneau , actor of a movie in which a cinem...
584,565
1,219,578
73,685
5
A true story . . .
. . . but time has not treated Jacques Rouffio's flick kindly . Two stories within fifteen years of one another , two surgeons who committed suicide because of a an old doctor ( Charles Vanel ) and his offprings who could not stand competition . Using gossips , false rumors and slander , the clique gets away unharmed a...
583,356
1,219,578
119,432
5
another pointless remake
Rare are the French comic movies that succeed in attracting attention to the USA . When it's the case , the concerned movie can be successful in Uncle Sam's country and sometimes , American film-makers feel like making a remake . It happened with the French movie : " un indien dans la ville " . In general , these remak...
583,069
1,219,578
51,477
5
A " liebelei " remake
Liebelei was one of Max Ophuls's triumphs in the thirties . One should notice it was Romy's mother ( Magda Schneider ) who was the lead . The first thing to bear in mind is that " Liebelei " was BARELY a romantic story . A harsh tale , more like , where princes do not generally marry shepherdesses . For the young her...
582,508
1,219,578
76,960
5
You'll cry for mercy and still there'll be more ! ( Keith Reid )
A chacun son enfer ( everyone has his cross to bear ) is a horrible story , in which a mother discovers that , after the worst ( her daughter is kidnapped , then killed ) , there can be something even worse . You do not believe me ? Well see yourself . Annie Girardot gives an over-the-top performance which never give...
583,076
1,219,578
58,323
5
Not enough Winton !
This is the film Guy Hamilton made just before the blockbuster of his career " Goldfinger " - which , although very different from " Man in the middle " , remains one of the best ( who says best ? ) Bond ever made - . The problem with " man in the middle " is that there's not enough scenes with Keenan Wynn . We would l...
584,449
1,219,578
37,973
5
The darker side of man . . .
Ambitious but only moderately successful . The first lines promised great things : every man has a secret garden , the dark side of his mind , you never know who he really is , blah blah blah . . . It seems that Delannoy had a film / symphony in mind . What Frank Borzage ( " I'll always love you " ) and Abel Gance ( " ...
584,815
1,219,578
172,907
5
Front window
This is the contemporary French thriller : all form and no substance ; flashy pictures , disturbing characters and poor screenplays . The director obviously relied on his cast : Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli were once in Bertolucci's critically-acclaimed " il conformista " ; both are very talented actor...
584,787
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86,984
5
the son of " Vertigo " ( 1958 )
An unemployed actor , Jake accepts the offer from a friend to put him up in a luxurious flat where with a telescope , he can admire and fantasize about a female neighbor who languorously takes her clothes off . It's the same " show " every night . But it's the start of a perverse game which will prove to be infinitely ...
584,334
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84,589
5
. . . . and another remake in disguise .
A man suffering from amnesia coming back from war to be confronted with a wife and child . . . Well we've seen this before and long ago . . . To be precise in 1938 , when Curtis Bernardt - who continued his career in America afterward - directed his " carrefour " starring the excellent Charles Vanel and Jules Berry . H...
582,592
1,219,578
49,602
5
Going my way . . .
And as far as Marcel Carné is concerned , going down . . " Le Pays D'ou Je Viens " should be reserved for Gilbert Bécaud's fans , and for them only . As Bécaud is a singer , Carné is compelled to bestow on the audience a song every fifteen minutes . As I'm not a fan of Becaud's kind of music , the only palatable song i...
583,052
1,219,578
62,106
5
Spy thriller , French style .
Does it deserve such a low rating ? Frankly , no . There were , in the wake of James Bond , so many dismal spy thrillers that you've got to be kind to " peau d'espion " . Anyway , it's not James Bond style : no gadgets , no high budget . The plot might repel some , since it remains almost indecipherable till the scene ...
585,259
1,219,578
146,316
5
the moral is : rush on the video games , they're much better
To adapt a video game for the screen is like adapting a comic strip to the screen : the result is rarely convincing . " Lara Croft : Tomb Raider " isn't an exception to the rule . When the film was launched in June 2001 , it was announced as one of the biggest commercial successes of the summer in France but it didn't ...
583,441
1,219,578
49,632
5
The visitor
A parboiled cross between " rose tattoo " and " a streetcar named desire " , both Tennessee Williams ' plays . A hunky man ( Vallone ) comes to a farm in Italy on the Goats island ( ? ) . There are three women who live on the farm : the mother ( Madeleine Robinson , one of my favorite French actresses in one of her wor...
584,717
1,219,578
358,735
5
Henry James's classic
Directed by Raymond Rouleau , a man who had practical experience ( he had directed Signoret and Montand in " Les Sorcières de Salem " , Miller's classic ) , with a cast including Suzanne Flon as the lead and Robert Hossein and Marie - Christine Barrault supporting ( but as ghosts , they don't have much to do ) , we cou...
584,660
1,219,578
183,790
5
a lackluster parody
The year 2001 wasn't a good one for American comedies . " Legally Blonde " starring Reese Witherspoon was spoiled by a cock and bull story , " Evolution " showed an Ivan Reitman who was running out of ideas and with the horrible " Freddy Got Fingered " , we had touched the bottom . I watched " A Knight's Tale " a coupl...
582,475
1,219,578
69,243
5
Everyone ' s bleeding .
It is to my knowledge the only novel by the great Richard Matheson to have been transferred to the screen by a French director . Georges Lautner , who made Mireille Darc a star in the sixties was responsible for ponderous comedies . From time to time , he would come up with an intriguing offbeat work . So were the high...
583,108
1,219,578
354,448
5
ethereal
Like so many contemporary French thrillers , " cette femme-là " is no substance and all atmosphere . Josiane Balasko portrays a cop down in the dumps , desperate because of her only son's death on the 29 th of February . Every four year , when the fatal date gets closer , she begins to have awful nightmares all about s...
583,089
1,219,578
22,924
5
A coarse comedy . . . .
It was a genre which was very popular in the early thirties in France . Two other good examples are " Les Dégourdis De La Onzième " and " Ignace " where Fernandel was featured too . Here he is only supporting as is Jean Gabin . The " crazy barracks " style is really an acquired taste . This kind of comedy is terribly d...
582,440
1,219,578
218,922
5
When paths of fear and alibis are black . . .
. . . And the nightmare is hung on your tree When an after dinner party's in the back Will you waltz into darkness with me ? ( Paul R . Michaud , 1980 ) First adapted for the screen by Truffaut in 1969 ( " la sirène du Mississipi " ) , with pretty good results . Although Woolrish's ( Irish's ) tragic side eludes the Fr...
584,613
1,219,578
194,157
5
Si tu m'aimes . . .
This 1937 movie , which has become very hard to see nowadays , is actually entitled " si tu m'aimes " ( = if you love me ) but the IMDB title is more appropriate considering what the story is about . A young girl ( Aubert ) in love with an electrician engineer ( Barrault ) becomes a celebrated chanteuse in les folies b...
583,258
1,219,578
107,969
5
Rising . ?
The best moments are the ones which deal with video manipulations . That's typically Crichtonesque : in " mondwest " , which he directed , he created a fake world , in " coma " , things are not what they seem . " Looker " reveals a threatening side of advertising , and advertising is par excellence manipulation . Let's...
582,858
1,219,578
216,740
5
Stan flies away , the film doesn't
This first effort from Steve Suissa has certainly a biopic whiff because it originates from some vivid memories . Prior to this very so-so film , he cut his teeth in cinema as an actor , in many cases in small parts . And before this , he went assiduously to the movies like his main protagonist , Stan ( Clément Sibony ...
584,237
1,219,578
33,858
5
A belle and her beaus
When the film was finally released in Duvivier's native France , it did not meet critical favor . I personally find little fault with the opinions expressed . " Lydia " is a confused cold work . Duvivier's great American movies are not " Great Waltz " or " Lydia " . They were yet to come : " tales of Manhattan " and " ...
583,470
1,219,578
53,695
5
Swashbuckler !
The 1955-65 era was the French swashbuckler heyday and Jean Marais was the hero of that generation . He had given up his artistic ambitions of the Cocteau period ( " la Belle et la Bete " " les parents terribles " ) , but his panache and his charisma remained intact . Pierre Gaspard-Huit is not much of a director , but...
584,938
1,219,578
194,484
5
Parrots and slogans
In France it is often mooted that Marcel Carné without Jacques Prevert was nothing or almost nothing . But when you watch Prevert's screenplays which were not directed by " Le Jour se Lève " director , you're compelled to admit that all was not gold . And Richard Pottier is not that much bad a director as " Caroline Ch...
582,443
1,219,578
107,520
5
ah ! the family . . .
Elie Chouraqui isn't a remarkable figure in the French cinema . After , a little convincing attempt in the comedy with " Paroles et Musique " ( 1984 ) and a failed incursion in the thriller with " Man on Fire " ( 1987 ) which made the object of an American remake in 2004 , he chose to tell the story of a family with nu...
584,714
1,219,578
168,270
5
Another prison movie . .
Zonzon means " Prison " . This is a movie which takes place in jail and one cannot say it renews a genre which has produced few masterpieces ( " Le trou ' by Jacques Becker ) . There's the obligatory violent scene in the showers , there's the obligatory body search and the obligatory beating up , there are the obliga...
583,456
1,219,578
274,309
5
I wish I could love this movie . . .
As I am a big fan of the bands who secured the glory of Factory Records , especially Joy Division and Durutti Column , I was quite impatient to discover " 24 Hour Party People " . I watched it last night and the first thing i will say will be the following one : how disappointed I was ! The scriptwriter Frank Cottrell ...
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58,003
5
spleen . . or tedium ?
After a neorealist period ( Il grido ) , Antonioni begins his movies dealing with incommunicability with " l'avventura " in 1960 , continues with " la notte " ( 1961 ) and " l'eclisse " ( 1962 ) . This trilogy is in black and white and features Monica Vitti , his favorite actress - although in " la notte " she's only s...
582,411
1,219,578
259,340
5
him against the world
If I had to give my opinion about this movie , I would say this : it is the meeting between " Amélie Poulain " ( 2001 ) and the Podalydès brothers ' cinema . A shy and unassuming man would like to charm a woman , Odile . For this , he stole her wallet so as to arrange a date with her . She accepts . But what Grégoire d...
584,887
1,219,578
40,284
5
Its days are numbered .
One more time , Bulwer-Lytton's book was cheapened in this movie which was to be L'Herbier's next-to-last one . It ' s got a good beginning and a good ending but what remains is a muddled story , not faithful to the original plot , saved by the magnitude of the actors ( Georges Marchal , Micheline Presles and Marcel He...
582,771
1,219,578
329,717
5
a buddy movie . . .
. . . like apparently all the ones you could have watched before . This effort cranked out by Ron Shelton rests on basic bases . Two cops from Los Angeles are compelled to work together . There's Joe Gavilan ( Harrison Ford ) , a seasoned policeman who has recourse to unconventional methods to do his job . He has to te...
582,423
1,219,578
118,972
5
Alan J Pakula's disappointing swan song
Alan J Pakula made a name for himself thanks to the stunning thrillers he made in the seventies such as " Klute " ( 1971 ) , " the Parallax View " ( 1974 ) , " All the President's Men " ( 1976 ) . Alas ! More than twenty years after the release of these movies and at the screening of " the devil's own " , this director...
583,495
1,219,578
102,930
6
A mere mortal thinks he's God ?
This is the second Pierre Jolivet movie I see ; the first one I saw a couple of years ago ( " force majeure " ) was marred by a happy end which made the story null and void ( not to mention a very poor cast : Patrick Bruel ) . " Simple mortel " is a different matter , simply because it goes to the very end . And it all...
582,446
1,219,578
286,009
6
a lacklustre comeback from " the Inconnus " but an entertaining comedy
In the French movie " the three brothers " ( 1995 ) , one of the characters says to the three members of the Inconnus : " Eh ! . . . Hurry up the Three Kings or it will cool down ! " It is to believe that this cue firmly fixed in their minds and gave them the idea to shot a movie . " The Three Kings " constitutes the I...
584,274
1,219,578
109,040
6
The animal lover
1994 was a beneficial year for Jim Carrey for three movies revealed him to the general public and lined his pockets : " the Mask " , " Dunb and Dumber " and " Ace Ventura " . At the level of quality , " Ace Ventura " finds itself between the two movies . It is better than the " dumb " movie made by the Farrelly brother...
584,631
1,219,578
288,477
6
an honest horror movie . Starring Gabriel Byrne
The third movie produced by the production company " Dark Castle " and managed by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis , " Ghost Ship " ( 2002 ) marks a step forward and constitutes a neat improvement in comparison with the two previous movies , " the House on the Haunted Hill " ( 1999 ) and " 13 Ghosts " ( 2001 ) . This ca...
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1,219,578
23,840
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Childhood's end .
Robert Siodmak's first German career was about to come to an end . " Brennendes Geheimnis " was to be his last before Goebbels drove him away from his land . The last pictures have become prophetic : a woman draws the curtains , a very poetic scene in a story which was filmed several times , in the silent era and then ...
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Proteus Generation or the years to come .
When we realize today how the computers changed our life , " demon seed " can easily be looked upon as a film ahead of its time . A bizarre cross between " Rosemary's Baby " and " 2001 " ' s " Hal 9000 " , one feels ill-at-ease after the viewing . The screenplay may seem far-fetched but today it can become a transparen...
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L'Eternel Retour .
Another movie of the Occupation days . There are harsh words said of this film , although it retains a small cult among horror and fantasy buffs . First of all , it's an escapism movie , like so many others in occupied country : " Les Visiteurs du Soir " , although it did include veiled hints at the country's plight , ...
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a couple of roses under a glass bell
In his first long-feature movie , " Sitcom " ( 1998 ) the nasty piece of work François Ozon exploded a middle-class household with the intrusion of a rat that set the libido of the family free . In this flick directed by Francis Palluau , we will also watch a middle-class breaking into pieces . But the disruptive eleme...
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Is it Ruth Rendell or Claude Chabrol work ?
Chabrol's plan was similar in " la ceremonie " to that of " la rupture " ( 1971 ) . Take a detective story ( Charlotte Armstrong for " la rupture " ( the balloon man ) , Ruth Rendell for " la ceremonie " ( A judgement in stone ) , then give it a " social satire " flavor . He did it all right in Armstrong's case which w...
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Ghosts story
When Michèle Mercier appears in the sequence when she's still " alive " and puts on a necklace , it is obvious that the director was thinking of her " Angelique " character . The scene looks like an outtake of the Bernard Borderie's saga . " Nella . . . " is certainly an underrated work : it does not rely on special ef...
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the omen thirty years later
The block Hollywood has been going through for several years must be big enough to prompt producers to produce remakes of successful films and " the Omen " is one of them . This remake opened on the 06th June 2006 , a beautiful date to serve the publicity campaign to promote the film . By the way , what's its contents ...
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Only a woman could direct it .
Jacqueline Audry is France's Ida Lupino : she was a director when women were only meant to be actresses , film editors or script girls . Her work begins to surface again , but really little by little . Some critics said that the laurels Agnès Varda won were actually Jacqueline Audry's . She had only one subject : woman...
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A short story by Guy de Maupassant . . . . .
. . . . . Marcel Pagnol wrote the dialog and provided the movie with his own wife Jacqueline . Both him and Jean Boyer wanted Bourvil to play the lead . But the actor was reluctant , knowing Fernandel had created the role in the thirties . " But said Pagnol , you will be a better Normand than him cause you are Normand ...
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Entertaining B-movie .
Gilles Grangier was never looked upon as an auteur and a lot of his sixties movies are really bad . But the fifties display a more interesting choice of movies : Bertrand Tavernier , a famous FRench director and a very demanding critic , admires " le sang à la tête " , " gasoil " and " le désordre et la nuit " , the la...
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the creation and the evolution of " Sushi Express "
who has ever dreamed of jettisoning one's stale living standards and to start again a new life on a new basis ? Such is the case in this film with Mathias ( André Dussollier ) , a disillusioned professor who is sick of the world which surrounds him . To provide him solace , one night one of his Japanese students offers...
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Uncertain glory . . . .
If you've seen Raoul Walsh's " Uncertain glory " , the resemblance of the beginnings of the two films will strike you . In both work , Errol Flynn ( Walsh ) and Gabin ( Duvivier ) are about to be guillotined but a bombing destroys everything , and they are free . So to speak . For France is either occupied ( Walsh ) or...
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Tomboy
Based on American novel called " Tomboy " , which makes sense cause the leader of the pack is a girl who , like the precedent user pointed out , resembled French pop singer France Gall . Daniele Gaubert would continue her career through the sixties , her most celebrated part was " lonesome the she wolf " a failed attem...
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Historically , the first commercial movie dealing with the colonial war .
Claude Berri became famous worldwide with " Jean de Florette " and his remake of Pagnol's " Manon des sources " but his career had begun long before , in the early sixties when he was lucky to direct the great Michel Simon in " le vieil homme et l'infant " ( an old man and a Jewish child during WW2 ) . " Le pistonné " ...
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Ship of pools
The luxury liner " Normandie " is to sail across the Atlantic ocean . Destination New York . And I mean luxury : they have a nice swimming-pool I'd love to dive in . The passengers : the who's who of the French cinema of the forties : Gaby Morlay , Michel Simon , Claude Dauphin , Jules Berry . . . . Like in the disaste...
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And then there were . . . .
In wikipedia , you can read at the end of the long " And then there were none " entry : " although not a direct adaptation , " mindhunters " closely follows the storyline of the book " . It's true that some scenes bear more than a distant resemblance with Christie's classic thriller , but it is not the only one . It's ...
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Fin Août Début Septembre
Simone ( Pascale Bussières ) is a young Canadian fashion model who is on the brink of a brilliant career . But this bright future could be thwarted due to a serious car accident of which she miraculously survives . In the aftermath , she decides to put an end to her professional life and becomes obsessed with the idea ...
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Walking down the aisle . . .
. . . is the heroine's obsession , idée fixe . She would do anything for it . This subject , which takes a back seat to the boys ' wild time is nevertheless much more interesting than the very bad things the guys do behind her back . The idea of turning Cameron Diaz into a hateful shrew is sheer genius : her angelic lo...
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Hush hush sweet Gwen !
If you take it for what it is , a feast of camp , then this movie ( and particularly Lange ) is much fun to watch . Probably influenced by Davis's ( see " hush hush sweet Charlotte " ) and Crawford's end of career ( see " straitjacket " ) , Jessica Lange gives an over the top performance of the bitchiest mother-in-law ...
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Some are born to sweet delight . . . . . .
. . . Some are born to endless night . A Parisian is arriving in a small village . In the French cinema before the war and even in the years which followed , a Parisian was something special for country people , a " person who is not like us " , almost an ET . More than Renoir's " Toni " , " La Nuit Sans Fin " ( Endles...
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the dream catcher
Jean Pierre Jeunet ranks among a handful of French film-makers known and appreciated abroad . With his first feature-length film , " Délicatessen " ( 1991 ) , he had established himself as a real author with an original talent . Although I agree that his cinema appears as innovatory , I am not really fond of it . I hat...
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The diary of a ladykiller .
La Vie En Rose , in spite of its title , has nothing to do with Edith Piaf . Released the same year as " The secret life of Walter Mitty " , it may be considered its French counterpart , but not nearly as good . Actually it was probably inspired by previous experiments of very underrated Albert Valentin : a story tol...
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Orphans of the storm talkie
That was the story which DW Griffith had already transferred to the screen in the silent era . The great American director transposed Adolphe d'Ennery's tear-jerker , one of the many melodramas which thrived in the French nineteenth century , during the revolution , which led the scriptwriters to staggering scenes wher...
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More Polanskian than Hitchcockian .
Beware of neighbors ! That's Rosemary's story , and that's the tenant's story , two great Polanski films . The camera tricks recall the Pole's style too . " Barracuda " could have been filmed stage drama , since we do not go out of Rochefort's flat , but the director manages to give a cinematographic feel to it . Cleme...
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The hunchback
A new version in the late nineties was released featuring Daniel Auteuil as the hero ; it was entertaining but the actor was overshadowed by Lucchini's portrayal of the wicked cousin . In the 1960 version , , there's not such a problem . Jean Marais was par excellence the swashbuckler hero and , like in " le capitan " ...
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ready for anything to be successful ?
Either it is in France , Great-Britain or in the USA , nearly every big actor felt one day or another to take a turn behind the camera to show their potential as a director . Guillaume Canet , a young charismatic actor added his name to this list which keeps on extending . With " mon idole " ( 2002 ) , his first long f...