the magnificent margot in a magnificent movie
That Adjani is a febrile character plotting and loving in 1576 France in a frenetic world where you could be killed for just proclaiming to be a catholic or protestant is the basis to comprehend this masterly act by the French cinema .
The St.Batholomew's day massacre is the setting where the marriage of Henri of Navarre played with a understated tenderness by Daniel Autieul to Margot in an effort to quell the religious conflict is used as a bait by the Catholics headed by Catherine de Medici [Virna lisi]to gather the Protestant aristocracy in Paris for a blood fest.
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In its day a casualty of the chaos and confusion surrounding the frequently ridiculous entry qualifications for the Best Foreign Film Oscar - many superior films were ruled ineligible and those it was competing against were scarcely representative of the world's best - Indochine may not be great art, but it is an enjoyable example of the kind of old-fashioned good storytelling that Hollywood rarely produces anymore.
Set against the last days of the French occupation of what was to later become Vietnam, it uses the relationship between Catherine Deneuve's French plantation owner and her adopted Vietnamese daughter (Linh Dan Pham) as a mirror for the relationship between France and Vietnam. Like the American South, for the privileged ... Read More:
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I bought this set together with vol 1. For the price of one Criterion you get five Malle films with good transfer! The only minor minus is the non-optional (english) subtitles and the limited extra material. Buy it now before it is too late!
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The Pornographer is a film that tires to be very controversial, but doesn't really help itself; this film could have been perfectly well told without the sex scenes which has had a 11 second cut due to the sexually explicit ending of the scene. To me, this just didn't need to be there. So the question begs; was this just trying to be a shocker to get more bums on seats at the cinema, or was there a real reasoning for it all?
The Pornographer is a film that tires to be very controversial, but doesn't really help itself; this film could have been perfectly well told without the sex scenes which has had a 11 second cut due to the sexually explicit ending of the scene. To me, this just didn't need to be there. So the question begs; was this just trying to be a shocker to get more bums on seats at the cinema, or was there a real reasoning for it all?
i like it, i think, it could have been better, way more better, but, i really really like it, i guess, and, there, is, a lot of sex and nudity stuff here on here. on the movie. quite something.!!!
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It's a good idea to have the one section of life play out three times with different contexts but I didn't think they did anything much with it. The films overlapped only a few times and didn't bring any new resonance or meaning to what goes on in later/earlier films. In the end it's a under-used gimmick.
All three films are okay but the comedy isn't amusing and the drama isn't gripping in any of them. Also, all three films are each overlong by about half an hour.
The packaging is slightly misleading. It suggested to me that all three films had been re-edited into one long sequential movie on the fourth disc. Instead it is just one day that has been re-edited.
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It's a good idea to have the one section of life play out three times with different contexts but I didn't think they did anything much with it. The films overlapped only a few times and didn't bring any new resonance or meaning to what goes on in later/earlier films. In the end it's a under-used gimmick.
All three films are okay but the comedy isn't amusing and the drama isn't gripping in any of them. Also, all three films are each overlong by about half an hour.
The packaging is slightly misleading. It suggested to me that all three films had been re-edited into one long sequential movie on the fourth disc. Instead it is just one day that has been re-edited.
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the magnificent margot in a magnificent movie
That Adjani is a febrile character plotting and loving in 1576 France in a frenetic world where you could be killed for just proclaiming to be a catholic or protestant is the basis to comprehend this masterly act by the French cinema .
The St.Batholomew's day massacre is the setting where the marriage of Henri of Navarre played with a understated tenderness by Daniel Autieul to Margot in an effort to quell the religious conflict is used as a bait by the Catholics headed by Catherine de Medici [Virna lisi]to gather the Protestant aristocracy in Paris for a blood fest.
This is a truly evil and genius stroke which works with 6000 people being butchered in one night with Henri and La Mole saved by Margot,
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the magnificent margot in a magnificent movie
That Adjani is a febrile character plotting and loving in 1576 France in a frenetic world where you could be killed for just proclaiming to be a catholic or protestant is the basis to comprehend this masterly act by the French cinema .
The St.Batholomew's day massacre is the setting where the marriage of Henri of Navarre played with a understated tenderness by Daniel Autieul to Margot in an effort to quell the religious conflict is used as a bait by the Catholics headed by Catherine de Medici [Virna lisi]to gather the Protestant aristocracy in Paris for a blood fest.
This is a truly evil and genius stroke which works with 6000 people being butchered in one night with Henri and La Mole saved by Margot,
... Read More:
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