The Untouchable
by Benoit Jacquot
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Actor: Isild Le BescoDirector: Benoit Jacquot
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Strand Releasing
Movie Reviews of The Untouchable
Movie Review: Maybe a Travelogue?
Summary: 2 Stars
Watching The Untouchable, I tried to figure out why this film was ever made; what was it's reason for being. The only solution I could come up with, the director loves Isild Le Besco and wanted to spend time with her; and he wanted to travel to India.
The film starts in Paris. It's not exactly clear how Jeanne (Isild Le Besco) supports herself, is she a major diva actress, is she a starving artist, or does she just go from bed to bed to support herself? No matter, one night in a drunken stupor her mother tells her this incredible story about how an Indian man picked her up by the Ganges river and nine months later, Jeanne was born. Her father is this mysterious very rich Indian man.
So Jeanne decides to go off to India to find her roots. But, everyone she sleeps with wants to give her money, but she refuses. So she makes a film, well there's a bedroom scene in the film. She wants the set cleared while she has sex with the actor. So here's the first reason this film was made, the director gets to have close ups of her during the act. Oh the inhumanity, the pain she feels doing this so she can go to India.
The last two thirds of this one hour twenty minute film is her travelling in India. Nothing but shot after shot of crowded places, people that help her, and some random men that eventually turn out to be potentially related to her. Oh it's all just so implausible.
I just didn't see much to redeem this film. Isild is pleasant to look at, especially in the Paris scenes. The scenes of Paris are beautiful. The intimate scene is good. The scenes in India get old after about five minutes, the crowded streets, the smoke, the dirt, I could almost smell the awful smell. And the ending is just so dumb. Technically, there isn't much going on in this film.
Presented in French with English subtitles. The DVD includes the movie, no bonus features.
I've been on an Isild Le Besco film festival these past few weeks, (A Tout de Suite, and Girls Can't Swim). I'm begining to believe that French directors are in love with her, and get lost making a good film because they are so blinded by her presence. There is a formula to all her films. She is alluring, but that is just not enough to carry a film.
Summary of The Untouchable
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