By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: Christophe Honoré
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Chiara Mastroianni | Louis Garrel | Ludivine Sagnier | Milos Forman | Paul Schneider
Original language title: Les bien-aimés
Country: czech_republic, france, united_kingdom
Year: 2012
Running time: 139
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1815799/combined
Thom says: “This and one other late in the Festival are my lowest rated films. Other than seeing mother and daughter playing mother and daughter in Deneuve & Mastroianni I can’t think of one thing to recommend this turgid musical drama. Now I have to be perfectly honest: I loathe French romantic
‘pop’ songs. Other than The Singing Nun, Plastic Bertrand, & Phoenix I couldn’t think of any good ‘pop rock’ songs. We all know what happened to the sad nun and Plastic Bertand was a ‘one-hit-wonder’, and isn’t the lead of Phoenix married to a Hollywood star? So what is it that the French don’t get about what they need to do to move into a modern universal sound? Sorry, I’m ranting. In the film just when I was starting to be able to return to the uninteresting story the film would break for another dreary, soporific ditty. Pass here. 1 cat”