Every single character in this film was a horror! Even Gabrielle by the end was as unlikeable by the end. I found it hard to care about any of the 3 leads as they were all so dispicable. I guess the only nice character was Charles' wife, but she was only a minor character.
shareGabrielle was very likeable and lovely, her last scene is heartbreaking. She was a young woman who dreamt of Love and was used, thus becoming a bit jaded and using others as a sort of vengeance.
She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.
I think that's the point of the movie. To show how flawed, hypocrital, selfish and greedy are human beings under the right circumstances. Circumstances that are always there at the reach of our hand.
Of course that their flaws are kinda overblown since the movie only lasts 105 min.
Your typical people "happy as a clam" and "pure as a saint", well, it's an invention of Hollywood and nothing else. Luckyly this is a french movie, directed by none other than Chabrol.
Not his finest work perhaps, but it's always interesting to see the works of one of the last masters of cinema.
BTW if you think the story is too far-fetched, the movie is in fact based on real events: The murder of a famous architect called Standford White (known for being a womanizer) by the hand of a jelous, psychotic and wealthy husband whose name was Harry Kendall Thaw. This happened back in 1906 in New York City.
the flaws are sorta overblown. i agree. as for not likeable. maybe. but they weren't as cruel as the characters in 'of mice and men'. the only other recent movie i've seen that was better than this one.
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I think that's the point of the movie. To show how flawed, hypocrital, selfish and greedy are human beings under the right circumstances.That's my take exactly on this film -- a study of flawed characters, and how their flaws impact their own lives and the lives of those around them. Somewhat ironically, about the only character in the film who was really likeable was the uncle/magician.
Yep, though I never found Gabrielle particularly likeable. Pretty, yes, but shallow and stupid. Apart from Charles' wife, the least despicable characters for me were the lawyer and, to a lesser extent, the mother in law.
shareWell I do agree that none of the characters were likable (in fact they were annoying) but this is still a good movie When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I didn't like the movie. I wanted a good French movie that makes you think because a lot of them do make you think, but this one made me nauseous at the end. I didn't care for any of the characters, the acting was theatrical, the circumstances stupendous - unless that's exactly how certain "bourgeios" actually do meet, live, and love. It was so impossible to believe that Gabrielle actually "loved" that old cheating fart and when he refuses to love her back the same way she does she goes off to marry that idiotic psychotic turd Gaudens - seriously... THAT's the ONLY choices we should believe she felt she had? Ludivine's acting was nothing to praise, not awful, not amazing, nothing special. Benoit Magimel looked extremely different in this - i didnt realize this was the same guy from Crimson River 2... the Old man was good and believable as an old wrinkly sleazeball - probably because he is really in real life NOT much acting is needed when you have lay there and make out with a gorgeous young Blond.
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