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Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302732764 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 630273276X Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: February 21, 1995 Running Time: 132 minutes Sales Rank: 15810 Studio: Warner Home Video
Description: Parable about a woman who refuses to believe the world is no longer beautiful.
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Rating: - Totally mad
The story does no justice to the great cast of this movie. Every character seems a bit soft in his/her head in this flick.
Rating: - Terrific, timely, terrifying!
"The Madwoman of Chaillot," based on a 1940s play by Jean Giraudoux, is one of those underappreciated treasures that rewards careful and repeated viewings. Like another parable/allegorical fairytale from Sixties filmmaking, "King of Hearts" (also set in France), it is an easy movie to dismiss as pretentious or longwinded. But this is to judge on surface appearances or to hold the film to a standard that it does not seek to attain. This work is a morality play, meant to instruct and illuminate; it is not a typical linear, real-world drama -- although the interweaving of the real world of contemporary ... Read More
Rating: - Worth seeing only for Hepburn and Danny Kaye
My, what a curious and uncertain film. The writer and director try out all sorts of tones without ever deciding on one. Is it a joke? Is it serious? Can it be that Bryan Forbes unashamedly uses 1960's riots/protest footage as window dressing? Do the filmmakers share the cynicism of most of the male characters? Rarely have I witnessed a movie where amateurishness and pure gold collide and co-mingle as they do in this.
It is overlong, and the interminable scenes of Donald Pleasance, Yul Brynner and John Gavin (three of the most witless and inept performances you will ever encounter) drinking at ... Read More
Rating: - Hepburn at Her Finest
O.K., I admit it. I'm the type who would watch Katherine Hepburn in literally ANY role and find something good about it. There are plenty of flawed or mediocre works I have sat through just for her. But the fact is that "Madwoman .." is a truly great film both as a comedy and a social critique. A consortium of evil conspirators representing most of the world's repressive idelogies (Communism, religious fundamentalism, corpoate greed, rigid middle class conformism and military war-mongering)try to destroy the "decadent" city of Paris (symbol of liberty, beauty and humanism). Kate, the city's defender, ... Read More
Rating: - Not the usual Bryan Forbes
This is not your usual narrative. The vestiges of Jean Giraudoux's trifling and engagingly whimsical play can still be noticed in Edward Anhalt's interesting modernization of his work. Bryan Forbes ("King Rat") directed this unusual movie. The cast includes Katharine Hepburn (an extremely sane madwoman), Margaret Leighton, Edith Evans, Giulietta Masina, Charles Boyer, Yul Brynner, Donald Pleasence, Danny Kaye, John Gavin, Nanette Newman, Oscar Homolka, Claude Dauphin, Richard Chamberlain, Paul Henreid, and Fernand Gravet. There is some nice photography along the way. Not for all tastes.
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