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A masterpiece-to-be ?

posted 19 years ago by klinafer
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This film is an adapation from Conrad's "The Return". Huppert and Greggory play a couple set in the begining of the 20th discovering that their marriage is a failure and their love is empty from the outset. Huppert told that Chéreau carried her out of the path she is used to walking in as an actress, revealing her new abilities. The film has been rules out of Cannes selection BUT since it will be released in France on the 24th of September, it stands a chance of being selected for Venice 2005.

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[–] fateless 18 years ago

Just saw it.

It's a masterpiece, absolutely stunning.

HE GOT COLGATE ON HIS TEETH & REEBOK CLASSICS ON HIS FEET

[–] rex_ilusivii 13 years ago

I just saw it now.

Great dissection of the superficiality of bourgeois socialites. The sheer self-interest of it all...

no i am db

[–] requiemforadream13 18 years ago

i dont know. I wont admit to seeing the film because i haven't but when i was working at a film festival in australia where this film was screend in many months ago, there were a lot of walk outs. they came out of the cinema claiming it was agonizingly slow and indulgent. I love huppert she is a god but can all those people be wrong. maybe its the australian audience but i doubt that because the majority of film festival attendees are accustomed to the slow pace that is a staple of european art cinema. lets hope its not a mistep for huppert. im just thinking about her work with haneke right now, ahhh, that final moment in the piano teacher and shes perfect in time of the wolf.

[–] manne243 18 years ago

It's not Huppert's fault that the movie is kind of disappointing, it's Chereau's fault. Isabelle is as great as always.

[–] Krustallos 17 years ago

I wasn't disappointed. The film is certainly slow and extremely talky, but at the same time it's very intense and the music, images, performances and text work together to create a dreamlike atmosphere unlike anything I recall seeing before.

One of those 'not-for-everyone' movies I think.

(for example the person I saw it with said it was like a parody of a French art movie).

I used to want to change the world. Now I just want to leave the room with a little dignity.

[–] ibbi 10 years ago

Not a masterpiece, but certainly a very accomplished, and criminally underrated movie.

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