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This movie was ABYSMAL.

posted 15 years ago by peatey
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Please ignore the ludicrous and inexcusable 7.5 user rating and save yourself the two hours. This movie was horrendous beyond belief.

[–] jars_ki 15 years ago

A great film, one of the best French contemporary movies in recent years!

[–] nimimerkillinen 14 years ago

Yes, an excellent film from start to the end. This is how many movies should be done. There was also a psychoanalysist involved in this project and it shows. Subtle and multidimensional film.

[–] 14 years ago

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[–] mihajlo321 13 years ago

Great movie, I'm glad I didn't ignore the 7.5 imdb rating. :)

[–] smackfireout 13 years ago

were there ever a movie that could be described as simultaneously awful and brilliant, it's this one. also, pretty much every claude chabrol film ive ever watched has made me want to take a shower

[–] seekermatt 13 years ago

the french can't make movies.
they think they can, but they can't.
they confuse asininity with art.

but they have beautiful actresses and this is worth watching just for sandrine bonnaire and isabelle huppert.
both beautiful women and great actresses.
i thought they were great together.

[–] brendan-170 13 years ago

I thought this was wonderful. I agree wholeheartedly about bonnaire and huppert, they are a delight. But mainly I enjoyed it from a "class war" perspective. For my taste, not enough films end with smug, middle-class families being massacred.

"Who does he think he is? Ernie Wise?"

[–] Trippetta10 12 years ago

The "class war" perspective doesn't work because the bourgeois family wasn't anywhere bad enough to deserve their fate, hence Jeanne and Sophie come across as a couple of garden-variety psychopaths.

[–] Liptonique 12 years ago

You are a very dumb person, thus your 'opinion' means nothing.

[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

It´s the worst Chabrol I´ve seen thus far, largely because there hardly seems to be any point to the whole thing; what does it actually SAY about the class struggle? I mean, it features about the nicest bourgeois family one is ever likely to see getting shot up by the likes of Bonnaire/Huppert who are psychotic for no apparent reason other than they were born this way. So, the message is... what? Upper class = good & proletarians = evil? I´m sure I´m missing something here...

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] g_monte 12 years ago

Really? I had a different word in mind to describe it: superb.

[–] goer_le_renard 12 years ago

One of my two favorite Chabrol (the other is "Le boucher", another amazing movie), la céremonie brings together two of the best actresses, this movie is just stunning, unbelievable, incisive, powerful, nihilistic, is itself a synonym of a seventh art.