Rendez-Vous
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Summary: 3 Stars
This story is basically about a woman attracted by so many men besides her which end causes one cases of dying and others all left her in the end, especially the director whom ask her to act in Romeo and Juliet play left her.....see the movie if you wish to know more about it......recommended to those whom are interested in this genre of DVDfilm/movie......
Rendez-Vous
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Movie Review: The French "Ghost"
Summary: 3 Stars
Kind of silly nonsense about an actress who is stalked by an actor whose girlfriend committed suicide. He dies and Juliette Binoche thinks shes will, too. It's muddled up with "Romeo and Juliet." Lots of nudity. Worth a watch.Movie Review: A Characiture of a Bad French Film
Summary: 2 Stars
I always wince a bit when Americans (and, really, most other nationalities) are all too confident when they poke fun at the French. But sometimes the French play into the hands of such a characiture. If one were in search of evidence that French films are obscure, despairing, and full of gratuitous sex dressed up as high art, Rendez-Vous should be exhibit A. It is almost a parody of a crappy, pretentious, and completely joyless arthouse film.
Having escaped to Paris in order to "live life," Nina does quite the opposite. The dingy depiction of the Paris underscores the impression that the city is more of a meat grinder than a place of discovery or liberation. Early on in the film, we interupt Nina at the theater while as she is about to mount the usher. He proceeds to treat her terribly, he insults her, and a pattern is born. Nina will continue to attract and be drawn to men who abuse her. Yet she is not simply a passive victim in this game. Paulot, who arranged her lodging, seems at first to have the normal attraction to Nina. Surely, this attraction is sexual, but it is not exclusively sexual. We can easily imagine Paulot, if he had never been humiliated by her, desiring a normal relationship. But as Nina later admits to her theater director, she would not sleep with Paulot. He is sweet, and she tells Paulot that she loves him, but that is not enough. She is drawn to something more sinister. Paulot's behavior at the end of the film is disgusting and degrading, but I didn't feel that this was inherent to his character. Nina has left her mark, Paulot becomes what he must be to have her. Nina is not "living life" in Paris, she is emotionally dead, and is making the same of others.
Surrounding her relationships is a storyline concerning a production of Romeo and Juiliet, its director, and a tragedy involving its previous stars. How this pertains to Nina is unclear, but the idea that "the sins (or tragedies rather) of the father will be visited on the son" comes to mind.
This film is not erotic, and Nina is not sexy. We see no evidence of her desires and there is not one loving or tender second in this movie. She runs head long into misery and sometimes can return it in kind. Ulitmately, she is a little girl who is destroyed by Paris. So what does the film want to portray? Utter despair and humiliation? How French!
I gave the movie 2 stars because I wasn't compelled to turn it off. While I didn't like the movie, and won't recommend it, I was still kept reasonably interested, and do like watching Juiliette Binoche. I hung on for some kind of redemtion, but it never came. I guess that would be too sentimental, or bourgeios. It's a shame, because I do like many French movies, and movies that do something unusual.
Movie Review: Not very good
Summary: 2 Stars
Juliette Binoche is, as one might expect, excellent. Her character has none of the strength of her later roles in Bleu or Chocolat, but that wasn't her fault - she played the character well.
However, she's the only worthwhile thing in the movie. There are no sympathetic characters (not even Binoche's, really). The random guy who picks up Nina in a bar harasses her less than anyone else in the movie. There's no motivation for much of anything (apart from animal lust on Paulot's part, one supposes). This film certainly isn't extraordinary, and there are none of the ordinary endearing elements in it (realistic drama, romance, character growth, sex scenes that aren't tantamount to rape or involve spitting in someone's face, relationships that make sense, etc.).
The Amazon review claims "it seems to make sense as it hurtles along." No, in fact it doesn't. Téchiné tries to address this at one point, when during a discussion of Romeo and Juliet the director character claims we need to ignore _why_ they fell in love. But at least in R&J there's some sort of romantic logic, while in this movie there's none whatsoever.
A real let-down. I love Binoche, and other Téchiné movies are certainly worthwhile (Ma Saison Préférée and Les Égarés are good). This is only for Binoche fans, and I would recommend renting instead of buying.
Movie Review: Sill wondering
Summary: 2 Stars
I was disappointed that I had to read words deciphered from a foreign language. The words were not on the screen long enough to read and still see the film. The plot was very poor. The ending left me wondering if there were more to come.
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