FilmCritic entries tagged "Gérard Depardieu"

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Potiche

by Chris Barsanti on Mar 31 2011
DVD Release Date: July 19, 2011
Potiche

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There's an old and all-too-true joke that asks: if the French are funny, and sex is funny, why are French sex comedies never funny? Maybe it's a question of translation. Happily, François Ozon's latest, a sublimely goofy (and apparently loose)...... more »
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Danton

by Chris Cabin on Apr 17 2009
DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009

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Long before we arrive at the time and place where Andrzej Wajda's captivating Danton takes place, democracy itself had failed. Has it gotten better since the days of guillotines and powdered wigs? The answer is muddled, but behind it all...... more »
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The Last Metro

by Jason Morgan on Apr 16 2009
DVD Release Date: March 24, 2009

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German-occupied France, a struggling theater, a Jewish man hiding in a basement, a woman falling out of love, and Gérard Depardieu are all taking a ride on The Last Metro. What is The Last Metro? It's French New Wave pioneer...... more »
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Paris, Je T'aime

by Chris Barsanti on May 3 2007
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
Paris, Je T'aime

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One would like to think that there at least a few other cities in the world besides Paris that could have inspired a film as varied in the types of cinematic pleasure so ably delivered by the anthology piece Paris...... more »
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Battle of the Brave

by Christopher Null on Jul 26 2006
DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006

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Epic romance, period setting (18th century war between Britain and France over control of Canada), amazing cast (check out the last few names), Celine Dion song on the soundtrack... sounds like a recipe for success. Unfortunately, it was not to...... more »
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Changing Times

by Chris Cabin on Jul 14 2006
DVD Release Date: October 3, 2006

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A man is buried under a heap of mud and dirt within the first five minutes of Andre Techine's Changing Times. It's not quite a mudslide since it's not on any sort of angle, but it piles on a man...... more »
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Nathalie

by Chris Barsanti on Apr 23 2006
DVD Release Date: May 2, 2006

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In Anne Fontaine's Nathalie, we're barely treated to the cozy spectacle of Parisian bourgeois respectability of married couple Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Catherine (Fanny Ardant) - he's a well-off businessman of some kind, she's a doctor, they move in comfortable...... more »
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Tous les Matins du Monde

by Christopher Null on Mar 14 2006
DVD Release Date: March 7, 2006

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All the Mornings of the World (the translated title here) is not about a) mornings or b) the world. It is about music, and many feel it to be one of the better films about that nebulous, ephemeral subject. Specifically,...... more »
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Last Holiday

by Sean O'Connell on Jan 13 2006
DVD Release Date: December 30, 2008
Last Holiday

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Queen Latifah and LL Cool J often do great work in bad movies - she elevates unnecessary Barbershop spin-offs; he convincingly flexes his acting muscles in action-centered junk like S.W.A.T. and Mindhunters. Wayne Wang's Last Holiday might be the first...... more »
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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Keith Breese on Jan 4 2006
DVD Release Date: December 6, 2005

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The oft filmed Count of Monte Cristo is a filmmaker's dream come true. The plot is elegant, the characters beautiful. It would take a lot to screw up a film version of the story. While Kevin Reynolds' (Waterworld) recent adaptation...... more »

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