A Wind From Wyoming
by André Forcier
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Actor: François Cluzet, France Castel, Marc Messier, Michel Côté, Sarah-Jeanne SalvyDirector: André Forcier
Brand: Facets Multimedia
Writer: Patrice Arbour
Writer: André Forcier
Producer: Brigitte Germain
Producer: Claude Léger
Producer: Jacques Dorfmann
Producer: Myriam Raynaud
Writer: Jacques Marcotte
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Facets
Movie Reviews of A Wind From Wyoming
Movie Review: Surrealistic take on love... Not for mainstream audiences
Summary: 4 Stars
This French Canadian production directed by André Forcier is a surrealistic satire exploring the nature of romantic love and dysfunctional family relationships. Lea (Sarah-Jeanne Salvy) is distraught when her boyfriend breaks off their relationship. However when she turns to her mother for solace she finds that her boyfriend has in fact dumped her for her mother. Her father tries to win back his wife with the aid of a hypnotist. Meanwhile, her chubby younger sister has a crush on a celebrated author and throws herself at him only to find him winding up in Lea's arms. When Lea falls for the author, the jealous hypnotist who wants Lea for himself, turns the author into a woman hater. The convoluted plot and bizarre situations could easily descend into a third rate farce but for the steady hand of Forcier and the very good all round cast. The dialogue in a French Canadian patois known as Joual sounds rather peculiar, French with lots of English words thrown in and spoken with something akin to a Texan drawl. With levitating nuns, boxers waltzing in pairs, old men dressed in WWI army uniforms digging graves, bar rooms filled with plastic mannequins, this has been compared with the surrealistic/absurdist works of Luis Bunuel. It has a rather sad, bittersweet ending with Lea finally accepting love for what it is, warts and all. I found it rather too bleak for my taste but it was nonetheless quite involving. Unfortunately, it will probably not appeal to most American audiences.
This DVD from Facets Video presents a modified fullscreen version of the movie. It appears to be an Open-Matte version where the mattes across the top and bottom of the film frame, used to produce the widescreen theatrical version, have been removed to give us the full film frame. The result is we get to see more of the picture, including things we were never meant to see, like microphone booms dipping down from the top edge of the frame and the fact that the actors are actually wearing underwear during love scenes when they are supposed to be naked. The picture quality is generally fair. The image tends to be on the soft side but colors are accurate. The original French soundtrack is in 2.0 mono. Unfortunately English subtitles are permanently burned onto the film in large white type and cannot be removed.
Summary of A Wind From Wyoming
WIND FROM WYOMING - DVD Movie