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On TV?

posted 16 years ago by literature_lover
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Is this movie ever played on TV? I realize it's unavailable to an American audience (our VCRs can't play French videotapes). How do people watch this movie? There are ratings for it....

[–] marc-bijlsma 11 years ago

People can rate anything, even if they haven't seen it. There are even lost movies with ratings. The 21 people who gave this movie a 10, obviously haven't seen it, and just gave it a high rating because Audrey Hepburn is in it.

The movie is completely uninteresting and today excists only in a bad quality print. I've seen it screened in Amsterdam about ten years ago. Some of the time you don't even know what's going on, because dialogues are incomplete.

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[–] marc-bijlsma 8 years ago

The English or the French version? If it's the English version, a new print must have been discovered, because when I saw the bad print in cinema, it was at the time the only existing copy.

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[–] marc-bijlsma 8 years ago

Ah yes, the French version still exists in good quality. We were discussing the English version here. The board for the French version is on this page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043865/
It would be nice to see the French version with subtitles, as it was aired on TCM. I have it without subs, but my French is not good enough to be able to understand all the dialogue.

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[–] marc-bijlsma 8 years ago

Alas, not available outside the U.S.A.
But I'm sure it will turn up somewhere on the internet.

[–] weneoretro 8 years ago

TCM has it on their schedule for Thursday 13 October 2016 at 12:30 a.m.

[–] northsouth1 8 years ago

They're showing it right now, but it's the French version (although the English version is the one advertised).

[–] weneoretro 8 years ago

Yes, the French version. The poster displayed here of the movie with Audrey top billed was obviously done after her soon-to-be fame arrived. She's not in the movie much at all and is approximately 10th billed. As far as the movie is concerned: so bad.