Great film

The way Jean-Claude Carrière’s script skewers commonplace notions of identity, family, history, land rights, provincial thought, human memory, and all with heart and soul, mind you, makes it surprising, but then again, I guess not.

You can’t have people thinking too much!

I enjoyed it.

GD in the title role is amazing. As always.

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Splendid film, I haven't seen it since the early 80s (a time when I'd usually been roister doistering down the pub before a film started). It compensates for the dearth of decent films these days, that dvd hire allows us to fill the gaps in our cinematic education.

TradBBC used to do it but those days are long gone.

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.

There are so many beautiful shots. You're often thinking you're seeing a moving Vermeer.

Where's your crew?
On the 3rd planet.
There IS no 3rd planet!
Don't you think I know that?

Yes. A film that really sucks the viewer in. I went from wanting Pansette to be guilty of being an imposter to wanting him to be Guerre and if not to be saved somehow. The fact that he was a nicer and better (?) person than Guerre yet ended up hanged as the bad one was compelling. Gerard Depardieu was great as Pansette; Nathalie Baye great as Betrande and the actor playing Jean de Coras was really good too. Nice to see Dominique Pinon and Tcheky Karyo amongst the cast as well.

The distance is nothing. The first step is the hardest.

It is terrific. I saw it back in the '80s and liked it, and just re-watched it - it still kept me every bit engrossed.