Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781567301618 Format: Black & White, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 1567301614 Label: New Yorker Films Manufacturer: New Yorker Films Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Yorker Films Release Date: April 13, 1999 Running Time: 215 minutes Sales Rank: 15589 Studio: New Yorker Films Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Rating: - Hope and despair
I am watching 'La maman et la putain', I think for the third or fourth time. I don't want to say it's a 'great' film, because the only sure meaning of great is big: I prefer to say it's a true film.
It's the story of lost souls. Should there be an afterlife it will have a heaven and a hell, but it will also have a city of lost souls. And, you know, heaven will be sparsely populated, hell will be almost empty (the ultimate punishment) but the city of lost souls will be crowded, that's where most of us will be (already are?).
The film tells of some almost meaningless events ... Read More
Rating: - The Mother and the Whore
Although the item was a Cannes film festival winner and difficult to find it was a bit disappointing. The story line itself was a bit drawn out and bizarre, very risque and racy for its time. I was disappointed with the condition in which it arrived. Advertised as almost pristine same, arrived in a very much used condition. Shipping a bit slower than most other items received from Amazon vendors. Overall, it was ok/mediocre rating and transaction.
Rating: - Overwhelming
Ok, what more can I add to the comments already given in the reviews? Besides the fact that one could write a whole book about the richness and diversity of this film, not much, if one has only a few lines to express the joy and wonder, the lust for life one can get from spending a few hours watching a movie.
I saw the film the second time in my life today in the cinema, and while it hadn't the same impact as the first, whith such a fílm this hasn't much to say.
One of the greatest film of all times, by all means try and see it if you ever get a chance!
And to see more of the greatness ... Read More
Rating: - The sixtie's sexual revolution.
This is a film about three promiscuous people looking for every opportunity to have sex, without any qualms of conscience or fear of Aids. It makes you quite envious. Marie, who is living with and supporting Alexandra, doesn't complain about and senses no danger in these peripheral affairs; she has a firm believe in the soundness of their core relationship.
As Alexandra is walking past a cafe one day constantly on the look-out, he catches the eye of Veronika and decides that she will be his next adventure. Without a moments hesitation he chases after her as she leaves the cafe and says, "I ... Read More
Rating: - brilliant (8/10)
first off, let me start off by defining my rating system so you can get a grasp on how brilliant this film is. There is only one film that i consider amazing (9/10) and that is Full Metal Jacket. there are a handful of others clustered at 8, but it is a very selected few (i.e., LaStrata, Persona, apaclopyse now)
why is this movie so brilliant? well, for starters, it has something that most foreign films, as well as movies in general, lack -- origionalliy. No, this film is not like the other foreign films that you have seen that rant on about harsh childhoods under a catholic upbringing ... Read More
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