Buffet Froid/Return of Martin

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Summary: My favorite dark mooded comedy of all time.
Review: What makes this movie so brilliant is the way the script plays with your mind. No matter the outcome, you always get a reverse reaction from the actors that you would have in the logical real life. The actors, like Gerard Despardieux, really knows they're role and play with great caracter and emotion. Another neat fact that shows how much this movie is great is the fact that there is never a down moment in the movie, wich means that you are always captivated by what goes on in this movie. In other words if you are into dark mooded comedy, be sure you don't miss out on this little jewel of a production ;o)

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Summary: This proves that murder can be fun!
Review: While I don't care much for Gerard Depardieu (he's fat and ugly, and I don't see why he's such a hot item), he is very good in this movie. He plays a disinterested murderer who, after his wife is killed, befriends two unlikely people; the paranoid police inspector to whom he reports the murder of an accountant, along with the disappearance of his own wife, and the cowardly thug who killed his wife. Together, the three men contract to kill another man, and one murder leads to another. It's a fast-paced romp of murder and mayhem. I only wish Michel Serrault (the accountant who gets murdered) had a bigger part. It's full of little nuances of visual humor, depicting the casual attitude toward murder which pervades the whole movie; like when Depardieu tells his wife about the accountant's murder, and shows her the blood on his knife, she tosses it into the dishwasher. The characters are depraved, the action is frenzied, the dialogue is witty, and the ending is true justice. It's a great film. In French with subtitles.