Anyone seen this movie?


Have you seen this movie? What did you think? I thought it was excellent and very enjoyable.

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I just rented this movie. I thought it was very good. Juliette and Olivier were both excellent in it. They had that subtlety that you dont find very often in American actors. I thought Olivier was so much sexier in this movie than he was in Unfaithful. He had that whole, chivolry thing going for him that was so endearing.

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yeah , I really liked it. It was a period film but I enjoyed it. Not as much as I enjoyed "Roman Spring and Mrs. Stone" but it was a good movie. I never really got bored of it, maybe because OLivier was in it. Juliette has a really nice body in this movie. I never realized that before.

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I liked it too. A classic adventure/romance/melodrama, with one of the most beautiful endings I have ever seen.

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I saw this before anyone in the States really knew who Martinez was! Muhwha. Anyway, yeah this film was pretty good. I rented it for Binoche and 'cause it was in french; I learn french best when I hear it....
Anyway, I hope there isn't a dubbed version of this floating about.

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If you loved this movie (as I did, easily one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen), check out Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Gerard Depardieu (probably tortured the spelling there), its the same director as "Horseman on a Roof" and its equally as beautiful. The use of color in Cyrano is spectacular.

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I loved this movie because it was romantic. I never find that same kind of old-fashioned romance in American movies anymore. Why do American movies lack in this genre? And it might have to do with the fact of the period setting. The whole mood was helped along by the fact that the male lead could only communicate by letter. His narration was doleful and longing, not so much for the action he was after -- since he was wearing officer's boots his mother bought for him and he was trying to live up to his mother's dreams of him -- but to be loved in a no-frills sort of way, what his mother could never provide. And all the swashbuckling and horseback riding too. What can I say, I'm sucker for it.

With the Europeans, they have a whole history attached to their continent where they can do a period piece like this one without coming off as reaching or affectatious. They have a real history here. They way they shoot the whole cholera scenes. I don't think an American director could do this effectively, because we've never been beset with the sort of plague that shuts down entire towns and roads and districts and threatens to engulf a nation. AIDs for example has never reached plague proportions. But with this, the road blocks, the bickering soldiers, the quarantines, the hysterical housewives protecting their children, there's a sense of dire straits that is very real, visceral. I guess it makes the fact of the leads' romance all the more important, their attachment all the more desperately needed. Nicely done.

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Both films are very good. Cyrano is one of my favourite books, (it's a play actually) and the movie is a perfect transcription, resting on Depardieu acting. It is fun and romantic, and I love the message. I just fear that translation in english spoil it a little bit.

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I saw Cyrano de Bergerac, it was funny. It was quite different from Horseman on the roof. I reccomend cyrano de bergerac. That actor Gerard Depardieu is in so many movies, but he is good, so I dont mind.

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I thought it was a brilliant movie.

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I seem to be the lone voice if dissent here.The photography and costumes were just breathtaking, but for the rest, though I am a lover of Art House movies and a huge admirer of Juliette Binoche ,I was bored to death...it just went gangling on and on scenery after scernery,OM pouting endlessly, like some over extended Mills n Boon- with lots of cholera tossed in ... dialogue was minimal.. arrgh ...one big yawn really...have seen so much better from France/Italy.... and for me not helped by Martinez..whom I find 2 dimensional and he just leaves me cold..I think he is a really bad actor...and I hate his sort of squeaky voice too....he just irritates me as an actor.....I sadly have seen most of his films and remain sceptical about his magical pulling power....

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this was a great movie and ive seen it three times
yes there were boring bits
yes it was historically interesting tho noone ever learnt about it at school did they?
costumes were great photography/lighting and scenery great
what i want to know is how binoche could stand such a long massage without seeming to respond and how many rehearsals did they need for that scene?

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yes, i rented it, as well. i mostly enjoyed it; a great period piece. wow! the scenery was AMAZING! so beautiful & lush! the costumes were great, too. i'm a fan of olivier's, & i like juliette, as well. thought they had believable chemistry & came off well together. i really liked how the movie had such a romantic feel to it, as another poster mentioned. however, i must admit, that at times the movie DID seem to drag & just go on & on - it was boring & i found myself looking at the clock. overall, though, i thought it was a good movie & would watch it again.

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... however, i must admit, that at times the movie DID seem to drag & just go on & on - it was boring & i found myself looking at the clock. overall, though
Same happened to me. The movie really starts after about one hour. Then suddenly it got better and delivered what I was expecting. Before I got bored by repetitive scenes with cholera corpses, crows and sick people and the story lacking focus.

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