If you are a woman and of retirement age, you will be able to appreciate this movie to the fullest, catching every innuendo and sly aside. When you laugh, which you will a lot, it will be a hearty laugh because you will be laughing in part at yourself.
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Funny Profound
Added 9/2/2008
It is a while since I saw this film last but it is quite precious to me.
There is not a flawed performance in it. What a cast!! The poor dismal suburban english get quite a serve. The english have always been good at sending themselves up. Jean Moreau's irrepresible character(Lily)comes from afar to attend a wedding only to save the day by getting strangely caught up in events. Selfless abandon and disturbing exotic influences dispel stifling hipocracy. Quite a spiritual movie in its own way! No truly and much more subtle than it appears.
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Quirky masterpiece!
Added 6/18/2008
This movie is so priceless in so many ways, it's a crime that it's not out on DVD. It's a pity its considered "little"; maybe in futre decades, it will become "big."
I've read the novel that this is based on, and I actually like the film bette!! Not that the novel isn't good. The movie, hoever, manages not only to cover the same ground more efficiently, but it packs in some extra nuances. And the way Joan Plowright and Jean Moreau both manage to play decades off their real ages is extremely impressive. And Julie Walters pulls off being impressively stupid.
One caveat: Jeanne Moreau's character is supposed to be English, and she clearly isn't. This means that once in a while it's hard to tell what she's supposed to be saying. . .
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Never in Hollywood!
Added 9/3/2004
A very funny little movie. The ending could never have happened in a Hollywood production . . it is a classic, stereotypical French gem. Everyone gets their up-commance. Jeanne Moreau is perfectly cast and is a delight to watch. See it when you want something to smile at, or to laugh with.
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Holds your interests
Added 3/14/2004
This movie is a mysterious little number starring Jeanne Moreau, an excellent French actress with many decades of remarkable work on her resume. She essentially carries the movie in a laughable, moving and over-the-top character. The story is a little confusing on first viewing (due to flashbacks to Egypt that are a little hard to follow, at first), but stick with it. If you like strong, repressed and hopeful characters mixed into a story of lost love and an expectation of a lackluster future that needs to be fought by a soon-to-be married woman, this might appeal to you. One reviewer expected Enchanted April and wrote a horrible review about this movie, based upon that expectation. The two movies are radically different, and that reviewer missed the mark. Recommendations given by Amazon that "if you like this, you might like that" do not mean to imply the movies are of the same exact nature. It only means to imply that it is of the same general format, like one mafia movie to another. Please ignore that negative review. It is completely without merit. Give this movie a try, if you can get it and especially if you enjoy the incomparable Jeanne Moreau.
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If you are a woman and of retirement age, you will be able to appreciate this movie to the fullest, catching every innuendo and sly aside. When you laugh, which you will a lot, it will be a hearty laugh because you will be laughing in part at yourself.
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Funny Profound
Added 9/2/2008
It is a while since I saw this film last but it is quite precious to me.
There is not a flawed performance in it. What a cast!! The poor dismal suburban english get quite a serve. The english have always been good at sending themselves up. Jean Moreau's irrepresible character(Lily)comes from afar to attend a wedding only to save the day by getting strangely caught up in events. Selfless abandon and disturbing exotic influences dispel stifling hipocracy. Quite a spiritual movie in its own way! No truly and much more subtle than it appears.
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Quirky masterpiece!
Added 6/18/2008
This movie is so priceless in so many ways, it's a crime that it's not out on DVD. It's a pity its considered "little"; maybe in futre decades, it will become "big."
I've read the novel that this is based on, and I actually like the film bette!! Not that the novel isn't good. The movie, hoever, manages not only to cover the same ground more efficiently, but it packs in some extra nuances. And the way Joan Plowright and Jean Moreau both manage to play decades off their real ages is extremely impressive. And Julie Walters pulls off being impressively stupid.
One caveat: Jeanne Moreau's character is supposed to be English, and she clearly isn't. This means that once in a while it's hard to tell what she's supposed to be saying. . .
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