La Buche
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Rich, Emmanuelle Béart, Françoise Fabian, Sabine Azéma Director: Danièle Thompson Writer: Christopher Thompson Cinematographer: Robert Fraisse Writer: Danièle Thompson Editor: Emmanuelle Castro Producer: Alain Sarde Producer: Christine Gozlan DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 106 minutes DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Fox Lorber |
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Movie Reviews of La Buche
Movie Review: Dysfunctional Paradise
Summary: 2 Stars
If you are into French dysfunctional families then you have hit the mother load with this film. Father (divorced) is a philander who currently has his illegitimate son living with him but is passing him off as just a lodger to the family. Wife (divorced and widowed from second husband as film opens) confesses to her first husband that while married to him she had a number of affairs as a sort of revenge. During one of those affairs she fell in love with her lover and he left his wife for her. His wife, of course, was the woman's best friend. Oldest daughter of this pair is a 42-year-old singer at a Russian tearoom and is pregnant by her lover of twelve years. Of course, he is married and his wife is pregnant. The middle sibling has married well but is having an affair with a flower seller. Her husband is also having affairs and intendeds to drop her. The youngest sister rides a motorcycle, fights with her sisters, and want to have a fling with her stepbrother. The stepbrother is separated from his wife who abandoned him to run off with her lover taking their daughter with her. During the run of this film she is abandoned by the lover and returns to her husband with their daughter and her son from her affair.
The one laugh I had was as the film opened the second husband is being buried. A cell phone goes off at the cemetery and as everyone checks their phones it is clear the phone that is ringing is in the coffin being lowered into the ground. And did I forget, all of this film takes place between December 20th and 25th. Merry Christmas.