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Summary: Got It All--music, photography, action and passion
Review: This film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966, and within minutes you'll see why. Claude LeLouche directs Anouk Aimee in this passionate story of a single mother with a small daughter who meets a Formula One race car driver who has a small son at the kids' private school and the story begins. The music is by Francis Lai and is absolutely THE BOMB. Buy the soundtrack CD, too. Although it was originally filed in French, it is dubbed in English-although you can understand the French even if you don't speak it. This is a fabulous film.
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Summary: My favourite movie
Review: If you are tired from fires, shooting, f..ing, actions and too-straigh-black-and-white pictures plus are not in brilliant mood .... spent some time with this movie. Relax. Forget about your current must-to-be-done. Enjoy very deep warm feeling of love. Music. You will feel much better...It's a Great Film. Exellent family movie too. I'd not agree with the world drama. At least not for me. Good luck.
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Summary: Best of the best
Review: Whatever love stories that you have seen since 1966 there can be no love stories like this. It is a truely a man and a woman film. The music by Francis Lai is, I do not know how to describe, well over the first class, a tune that you will never forget.
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Summary: wonderful, but...
Review: A simply splendid piece of filmmaking, criticized invariably for its "schmaltz," etc. Just as invariably these rebukes are written or uttered by, or so one surmises, existentialists (or would-be's) ashamed to be alive and aching to be pushed to suicide by one or another John-Paul wearing owlish glasses and a perpetual frown. The score is dated yet not; always lovely. But, as others have complained, there should be no English dubbed version. (Sartre would be justified in complaining). French, with subtitles, please. When such is available, I'll buy. Not before then. By the way, another LeLouch, "Live for Life" ("Vivre pour Vivre"), which was, I recall, shot in English, has never been available on VHS or DVD. Again, I'll buy when available.
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Summary: 1 Star for the dubbed version; 5 stars for the French
Review: This is perhaps the best wedding of cinematography and sound track ever laid down on film. A simple but haunting love story told on a backdrop of wonderful musical compositions which carry the emotional payload. Why they ruined this near perfect blending with an English dubbing is unanswerable. Dubbing the dialogue was bad enough but dubbing the vocals was a high crime. "A Shadow of Us" in the original French is compelling. In English, it's a drunk singing to himself at the end of a bar. Should anyone find the original French with subtitles, please contact me. I've been looking for it for over 15 years.
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Summary: The best romantic movie ever made
Review: I saw it first when I was about 14, and I've tried to watch it again almost every year since. The most perfect love story ever put to film, it still brings tears to my eyes. (But make sure you get the subtitled version!)
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Summary: Please - somebody find me the French version!
Review: Don't waste your time with this dubbed-in-English video. There's no comparison with the original French version with English subtitles...
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Summary: A great score and some great scenes
Review: I wouldn't buy this version either, I'd want the original French. But one of the very best sequences in it doesn't have any dialogue, just music - the trip in the fishing boat. This is overwhelmingly beautiful, a high point in Francis Lai's wonderful score. At times you might think that the title is 'A man, a woman and a car'. I could have done with fewer shots of the ubiquitous Mustang. Many scenes are absurdly glamorized. But the stars are wonderful, and the scene when they first make love and she is overcome with sadness is poignant and unforgettable.
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Summary: A broken record - make that VHS tape!
Review: As the prior reviewers have stated: "C'est meilleur en Francais!" I watched the original in an Army theatre in Bad Kissingen in Germany in the 60's. Rented the French language version from the local library perhaps six or seven years ago - mandatory for all the family to watch. Now this version I own - c'est meilleur que rien! Buy it - you'll love it.
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Summary: Dubbed in English?? Are you kidding?
Review: It is one of the most astonishing, attractive, and unforgettable movies. However, I would not buy this tape unless it is dubbed in French(!?).
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