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Summary: Quintessential Love Story and Musical Score
Review: I've been ironing my shirts for the past 10 years while watching this movie - it never grows old. The only problem I have with it is the english dubbing which considerably detracts from the intonations of the voices and from the music. I would love to see this re-released in a sub-titled version.
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Summary: Wonderful story, filming, photography & soundtrack.
Review: I cried then as a young man and now as an old one.Must have seen half a dozen times and still come back for more. For a love story, thrilling non-stop action. Lelouch cuts all unnecessary links between scenes, extensively useing color and music to match emotions. So few words,translation not even necessary - maybe more than any other 'foreign' film, the strengh of feeling transmitted by the original voices makes up for having to occasionally read sub-titles. Let's not tamper with perfection! And the mealtime scene with the children is a cameo that should make the hardest nut laugh and cry. A must for every human being! Turn off the lights, take the phone off the hook, no beverage breaks, sit back - indulge yourselves.
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Summary: great love stort-even greater photography
Review: A great love story where much is not said, but seen. The actors easily convey the plot and passion to the movie goer.What is most compelling is the sound track. It still stands the test of time.
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Summary: Classic 1960s French Romance--Get the non-dubbed version
Review: This classic French '60s film directed by Claude Lelouche and starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant is a triumph. The '60s feel of the film is the most striking aspect. The dialogue and plot are deceptively simple while Francis Lai's (Love Story Theme) soundtrack rises to the atmosphere setting occassion.
It's understandable why some may find this slow moving, schmaltzy, Eurotrashy, etc., but one has to look behind what's apparent to glimpse some magic cinematic moments. Of course the other negative is the dubbed English. Someday I'll see the original version, but 'til then I can overlook that fault. On one level the film explores the synchronicity between Anne and Jean-Louis from their backstories to the on screen juxtaposing. Needless to say this towers over junk like "Serendipity". But it's the theme music that really brings it all together, especially the great final scene at the train station. There's a feel of spontaneity to the film; it really captures 1966 France.
And if you let yourself delve into the emotion, romance, and impressionism you'll too be able to appreciate some great cinema.
On a sad note Jean-Louis Trintignant's daughter Marie, the famous French actress was killed last year by boyfrined rocker Bertrand Cantat. Jean-Louis first starred with Brigitte Bardot in 1956's "And God Created Woman".
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Summary: often misunderstood "feelgood" classic
Review: Reading so many overblown reviews disappoints, and fails me to comprehend the essence of simple pleasure ignored. With the sardonic overtures of variant sub-themes, this vehicle of love's momentum blends ample feelings of love and angst with a melodic backdrop that mesmorizes. How sad that those "in the know" are precluded from simply feeling the velvet caress of their hearts and leaving a theater with an optimal thought for their futures. For those who wish to avoid the pitfalls of overzealous critics and touch the corners of self-fulfillment and loving overtures, this film continues to satiate the true quest for loving caress.For those who continue their search for love, this story will help lead the way.
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Summary: "A Man and a Woman"
Review: A young widow reluctantly falls for a recently widowed playboy race car driver.
Have you ever been haunted by a film that was considered so perfect by critics and film festivals that when you finally watched it, you wondered what all the fuss was about? This is that film. The romantic idea is alright, and the direction is fine and sometimes surreal, but the breathy performers utter silly soap opera dialogue with no meaning. The way the race car driver's wife dies is especially ridiculous. This is better know for its love theme than anything else.
Not Rated- Very mild physical violence, sexual content
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Summary: An Artistically Good Movie
Review: The movie details a widow and a widower looking for romance by a chance of encountering one another. Both are dealing with the loss of a spouse. The movie goes back and forth into time as to how their spouses have died and she has this image of him being a pimp when he doesn't go into detail about his career. He doesn't want to instill fear into her. She lost her husband on a movie set. One minute the movie is in black and white. The next minute, it's in color, like their love for each other. It may seem boring to some viewers because they expect something more dramatizing to happen or some sort of sexual tension and passion which is not what the movie is about. The movie without the excessiveness was just fine and easy to watch. I wasn't bored watching the movie. The fashion and makeup of the sixties was cool.
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Summary: La belle de film
Review: First time I watched this film, it was forced on me by my French teacher who was madly in love with this film. I am sure he meant well, but, despite the simplicity of the storyline, it was a torture for a student who was only two weeks into his first French course.I returned to the film later (with subtitle, mercifully) and kept coming back for more ever since. The film is a very intimate study of the relationship between man and woman. There are items in the film that dates it firmly in the 60's (like songs and clothes) but the charm of this film is timeless as it deals with that "Fundamental Thing" Sam was singing about in Casablanca. My French is still bad but it is not the film's fault.
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