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Vie est un roman, La (1983)
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20 April 1983 (France) morePlot:
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreUser Comments:
probably the nadir of Resnais's career moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Vittorio Gassman | ... | Walter Guarini |
| Ruggero Raimondi | ... | Comte Michel Forbek / Count Michel Forbek |
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Nora Winkle |
| Fanny Ardant | ... | Livia Cerasquier |
| Pierre Arditi | ... | Robert Dufresne |
| Sabine Azéma | ... | Élisabeth Rousseau |
| Robert Manuel | ... | Georges Leroux |
| Martine Kelly | ... | Claudine Obertin |
| Samson Fainsilber | ... | Zoltán Forbek |
| Véronique Silver | ... | Nathalie Holberg |
| André Dussollier | ... | Raoul Vandamme |
| Guillaume Boisseau | ... | Frédéric |
| Sabine Thomas | ... | Marie |
| Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | ... | School Teacher |
| Rodolphe Schacher | ... | Pierre |
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Watching the first few moments, you realize it's going to be a parody - and certainly it *is* a parody, but I'm not sure of what (a fairy tale? an opera? a Hollywoodian C-movie? - if there was something like that), and I can assure you it's not worth watching. It's simply a pointless film (cf. a good parody is everything but pointless), with pretentious, shallow speeches of extremely sketchy characters. It's like a commedia dell'arte. Or better, it's like a botched commedia dell'arte. And the score... sung in an intentionally incompetent way (something Greenaway will use much more efficiently), it *is* painful to listen to (unless one wears some sate-of-the-art earplugs, haha). Go for quality movies (e.g. A. Mitta's How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor, 1976) and steer clear of this mistake.