Reviews

This seems to have escaped everyone's attention. EDTV was the remake of Louis 19, le roi des ondes (1994) a little-known low-budget French-canadian flick.

Last year's box-office success grossed 2,000,000$ canadian dollars and is predicted to be re-shot in Hollywood some time soon. Its title: Nuit de noce. A sub-titled version is available somewhere.

A great sport flick about a cycling race. Director went on to direct a longer flick about Montréal Olympics which rubbed elbows with Leni Reifensthal flick about Berlin games. Labrecque still goes-on with documentaries. His son lately made a documentary about his dad' production. Not to be overlooked.

Don't be fooled. When a native kids looks weary before a shot of rain forest being exploited, it looks like a statement to me. A cheap one. A cliche. Beside, it is a very nice collection of National Geographic like pictures. Useless but nice.

Why the hype? The guy goes down the drain and has his brains split on the wallpaper. His wife cheats. His daughter goes through changes. The neighbour is a psychotic. Big deal. Has anyone ever seen anything but pathetic Hollywood flicks with guns on cast.

This flick is funny. I mean, really funny. Coming from someone who only smiles when a flick is reputed funny, the comment must be taken seriously.

If only I could write Bensalah, I'd thank him for it.

This may be one of them, but let not this exception distract you from the fact decent films have been produced all over for over 100 years and are nowhere to be seen in this day of video-houses. Beside, it serves to prove US film production serves every need. Beware. It is the big HOLLYWOOD-LIE. Other visions of reality have a birth-right to exist. We need them just as we need air and imagination.

First degree: It doesn't make sense. Second degree: it doesn't mean anything. Third degree: it ain't even funny. Beside, why would anyone in his right mind need to point a gun at his wife when he wants to tie her and put her in a cage? This part clearly escaped me. Furthermore, if a lover tries to shoot you, would you live with her? Right, this is only a fiction. It doesn't happen this way in real life, does it, or is it that US film producers need to put guns on screen?

When I first saw this flick, I thought it was 20 years ahead of its time. Nine years later, I'd like to review the "20" part of it. Say "30" instead. It was an important flick for me. A reflection on cinema, reality and time. I remember reading a "Letter to the editor" in the local paper (La Presse) in which the "reader" expressed his disgust for the film. Nothing is disgusting about it. "Challenging" maybe. "Disturbing". Never "Disgusting", unless one is disgusting by the story of a young woman spreading an imaginary mortal sexually transmissible disease for the local doctor to prosper.

Of course, since and before, other experiences were made, but this one is not to be overlooked. A must.

I thought my interpretation was personal. I saw it again in video and found the same strings being pulled. The director often take the viewer on the verge of a catastrophy and stops short of pushing him. Nothing happen. Just fear of a personal catastrophy (getting HIV+, being cheated upon, being killed, being caught unfaithful, getting involved with the mob, or worse, politicians). The final thought is that intimacy is precious. Isn't it what the "wife" says at the end?

Very unlikely. Younger generation of mobsters kill everyone, just as The Godfather series has made us expect if it wasn't the cast is not credible, acting is one-dimension, sets are not credible. Yawn. I wished everyone who think this was good could see the Omerta tv series which was way beyond this.

It reminded me of "Perfect murder" (which I watched from the kitchen). A remade of Hitchcock's "Dial M for murder" with Micheal Douglas and Gouinette Parletrop. Everything seem to be more and bigger than what credibility calls for. Even my girl who usually likes easy Hollywood flicks was uneasy with it. She chose the title and was made fun of for it. Avoid at all cost.

Forget gold, silver and... what is the third one, cop, bronze, I forget. Most buffs with a tendency to play Oscar night tend to grant superlatives to this one while others would prefer to avoid old B&W classics which, they pretend, only please intellectuals. Granted.

Let me say only I had fun and emotions with this one. Would I recommend it? Certainly, but not to everyone for many wouldn't get into it and hold it against me. View with care. This is powerful.

There is no valid interpretation here. What you think you saw is definitely not what I think I saw. Everything is fuzzy and barely suggested. The viewer is his own screen. This is a very intimate experience which made me feel exactly how I felt while viewing the Shining: uneasy.

I think I saw the story of a guy and his wife who are tempted to take a walk on the wild side and all along I felt scared one would and get caught or at least, hurt.

I bet not many saw the same. I tells of my own mindscape.

I'm not in the habit of granting gold, silver and bronze. In this case I'll make an exception for this is an exceptional experience. I watched this film many times. Lately, I found myself crying for no apparent reason while watching it. It must be the Stendhal syndrome has dawn on me I guess. There are two periods of film history: Before-CK and After-CK.

My guess is it still is ahead of its time just as Van Gogh was 100 years ahead of his time. Nowadays, his painting he could never sell himself are breaking record prices at auctions.

Years from now, the general public will demand to be taken beyond this milestone. As of now, it still is "art-house" stuff for students and intellectuals.

Policeman and his female assistant go to a resort where kink, partner swapping and S&M are part of the program. Everything expected is delivered. Unlikely and boring. A reciepe for attracting sexually repressed viewers who pretend to watch a boring comedy while watching unassumed, predictable & very soft porn. Future generations of viewers will be sorry for us. By maker of equally boring Pretty woman and Runaway bride. Great stocking stuffer for in-laws.

Man in his thirties loses wife and job and spends chitty-chitty-bang-bang week-end trying to get his life together. Great actor-numbers. Everyone goes through a crisis. A lot of fun for uninvolved viewers. Thought-provoking.

Everything isn't on screen. Watch it many times and see more than meets the eye. The whole story is a nightmare. A very tiring nightmare. Complete with chases, paranoia, thieves, recurrences, lost keys and a corpse. Luis Bunuel would have loved it given a piano carrying priest would have delivered an insect flavored pizza.

Bo is as arousing as an inflated doll or Nancy Reagan. Middle-aged man falls for her. She grants him temporary use of her body since she's kinky, modern and thankful for swimming ashore where she slept on a surf-board.

He backs down and go back to Julie Andrews. Now I'm middle-aged myself I find the whole adventure unlikely.

A young first time film maker who plays in his flick. Guns and guts splashed all over. Some very outrageous moments. Wacky characters and outrageous situations. Bound to make you laugh with unease and faint any lady in the tv room. This is unreal given you get rid of expectations and give it room to be outrageous. This guy has a great career before him. Remember his name and watch it here years from now.

This is the corniest film one could set his eyes on. Every line is predictable and contained within the storyline. Screenwriters asked themselves what would girl segment of viewers like to be told. That's what they came-up with. The female version of a James Bond flick. Sweet, cute and unbearable.

Big strings are pulled all along. When boomers were pre-teens, we got "The sound of music". As older teens, we were told "Love story". As young adults, we got "Falling in love" and "Moonstruck". As divorced middle-aged, do we only get this kind or mindless tear-jerker? Chances are we'll soon get elderly-widower love-stories. I sometimes doubt god doesn't exist. This once, I am certain we are on our own. I got to get a life while it is still time. Don't we all?

Both were icons of French action flicks in the 60' and 70'. Both played together once in 1970. Now don't be fooled. This isn't reality. This is an imaginary and unlikely story where actors and viewers are accomplices. Just as in any Bond flick, weapons are big and heroes get-off easy where most mortals would kick the bucket. This time, heroes are gray just as we all are getting. Imagine Sean Connery coming out of retirement and teaming with Charles Bronson for a field day. That's what we get here.

Chances are we'll get a Hollywood remake any day now.

What's is it getting at? I don't know. Maybe I'm too old for this. I'd be glad to read comments from viewer in his 20'. Kiberlain, jobless teams-up with punk, splits, re-unite, finds a job. Get money for sex with a married middle-aged civil servant at the employment office, moves-in and on and on. Is it really what cinema was meant to be? A useless film I'd have forgotten by now if I didn't take notes.

Who didn't fantasize about time travel. Flicks and TV series about this are just as numerous as westerns. This series of three flicks does a good job. Good questions are asked. Good solutions were found by screenwriters. Quantum physicians would find it interesting and likely as well. Don't let your kids grow-up without seeing it. While at it, see it with them. There are nice cars and beautiful actress for dads as well as some moving moments for moms. You won't get bored.