Malevil (1981)
Hi,
I would like to buy this movie, DVD or VHS.
Could anybody help me?
Thanks,
Andy
Also trying to get it somewhere...
Did you succeed getting it?
I'm also trying to find this movie on DVD, and to be honest I was hoping that someone in imdb would know more details..
I would appreciate any help, as I need the movie for my studies in French (our program this year includes the book by Robert Merle), but i'll still keep trying!
If I find out anything, i'll come back here to let you know!
Hope you find the film. Im trying to find it as weel. The book is fantastic, one of my all time faves. I've always wondered if the film did it justice...
shareDon't bother. The movie is utter crap. Not even the same ending, and barely the same story...
shareThis is such a "profound" characterisation. The aggressive stupidity of this type of adolescent attitude never ceases to amaze me.
Back to the original request/question - the movie is currently not on sale. Typically amazon.fr has pretty much everything, not this title. The original VHS is highly thought after by collectors and costs quite a bit more. I'd expect to pay around 50 euros for it on ebay and such (please check google). An alternative is in *avi, not particularly legal, enough said...
This film doesn't have to be defended, my two cents is that it is quite good. It is based on the book, but very loosely, and there is nothing wrong with that. Cinematography is excellent, so is the cast. Compared to a non-stop action of a thriller/blockbuster, the pace is slow, so it is not for those viewers who are conditioned by hollywood. The story is quite simple and very easy to follow, nevertheless, the pace alone can cause a short-circuit of whatever is left in the brain and apparently, as in an example above, the outcome is an aggressive attitude. alas.
This is a horrible little movie. A bunch of 'survivors' wearing rags, perched among the ruins, staring melancholically into space. No interaction between the characters, no personalities, just faces walking around on pairs of legs. Almost nothing of the original plot survived but some of the names. Momo is a fat, banal little imbecile, a copy of all the village idiots in all French movies ever made. La Meneaux is a tired old crone that speaks with an Italian accent and has no expression on her face, ever. The movie just rambles on, squeaking and rattling, with a plot that appears to be random and meaningless. Occasionally they just kinda quote from the book, to remind you what you are watching. Those moments are a little surreal, since they are so out of place in the general bleakness. They were probably going for a melancholic-philosophic-post-apocalyptic effect - war is bad, end of mankind and all that jazz. And using whatever props you can get in a run down semi-rural area of France. Kinda reminds you of those late-night action-fantasy-scifi b-movies with cheap patchwork plots. A pathetic little attempt to cash in on Robert Merle's success.
To all the people who loved the book, like I did, who love old GOOD French movies, like I do, please skip this one.
The aggressive stupidity of this type of adolescent attitude never ceases to amaze me
The only person who's aggressively stupid, sir, is you. Hiding behind the "you can't understand a slow-paced" movie defense. Well, slow paced is not automatically good, with or without good cinematography. Take Mongol, for example - another atrocity documented by a good cameraman. share