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Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 01:06

Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Italy
Directors: JosÃ©e Dayan
Actors: GÃ©rard Depardieu | Jeanne Moreau | Fanny Ardant | Virna Lisi | Katja Riemann | Claude Rich | Gert Voss | Sergio Rubini | FranÃ§ois Marthouret | Marianne Denicourt | Gottfried John | Pascal Vannson | HervÃ© Briaux | Didier Lesour | Enguerran Demeulenaere
HonorÃ© de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make money out of printing and publishing books. Balzac never gives up, however - even though his dissolute lifestyle keeps landing him in trouble with his creditors. To finally gain acclaim for his works and to earn enough money to survive, Balzac works like a man possessed, day and night, to the brink of exhaustion, drinking liter upon liter of coffee to keep himself awake. The passionate author also tends to go to excess in affairs of the heart - he has several woman friends at the same time, all of them very different from each other. They include the kind, caring and elderly Madame de Berny, and the egotistical, ambitious Laure d'AbrantÃ¨s, who introduces Balzac to the salons of upper-class society. Balzac's heart belong to just one person alone, however: Eve Hanska, a married Polish woman living in Russia. At first she and Balzac simply have a passionate exchange of correspondence, but then they meet each other for the first time in Switzerland. On his return to Paris, Balzac is mortified to learn of the death of Madame de Berny. It comes as all the more of a shock to him because she was the only person who loved him as a man, rather than as a literary idol. Balzac then has a series of unlucky experiences in his work too: whatever he tries to do it always turns out to be a naive and unrealistic dream. Even though his new works are being well received socially, and do start to bring him a small income, Balzac's financial situation becomes ever more desperate because of his dissolute and excessive lifestyle. When Eve Hanska's husband dies, Balzac finally wants to fulfill his greatest wish, and marry the woman he has loved for so many years. Eve has a miscarriage and loses their child. Balzac is totally shaken by this event, while Eve is strangely unconcerned. Does she, too, only love him for his artistic reputation? The long-awaited marriage does finally take place in Russia, after years of delay - but Balzac doesn't have long to enjoy marital bliss. He goes blind, and dies a slow and agonizing death just four months later. His friend Victor Hugo is the only person to remain by his side until the very end...

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Pédale douce (1996)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 00:02

Genres: Comedy
Countries: France
Directors: Gabriel Aghion
Actors: Patrick Timsit | Fanny Ardant | Richard Berry | MichÃ¨le Laroque | Jacques Gamblin | Christian Bujeau | Boris Terral | Axelle Abbadie | Facundo Bo | Arno Chevrier | Yan Duffas | Dominique Besnehard | Sacha Briquet | Laurent Spielvogel | Eliane Pine Carringhton
A closeted gay man's attempts to "act straight" for the sake of his job have unexpected consequences in this French comedy. Adrien (Patrick Timsit) is a businessman who is trying to close a major deal with Alexandre (Richard Berry), a powerful banker. Alexandre invites Adrien to attend an upcoming dinner party at his estate; Adrien doesn't want to scotch the deal by saying no, but he would also prefer that macho Alexandre not know that he's gay, a secret he's kept from most of his business associates. Adrien persuades his friend Eva (Fanny Ardant), the proprietor of a popular gay nightspot, to pose as his date for the evening, and her no-nonsense attitude and broad humor score a big hit with Alexandre, who becomes infatuated with her. On the sly from his wife Marie (Michele Laroque), Alexandre begins calling on Eva at her restaurant; Alexandre is a bit puzzled by her clientele, while Eva begins to wonder if he might be gay.
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Nathalie... (2003)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 11:02

Elizabeth (1998)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 18:02

Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
Directors: Shekhar Kapur
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Emily Mortimer | Kelly Macdonald | Amanda Ryan | Terence Rigby | Jamie Foreman | Edward Hardwicke | Angus Deayton | Daniel Craig | James Frain | Eric Cantona | Fanny Ardant | Kathy Burke | Richard Attenborough | Joseph Fiennes | Christopher Eccleston | Geoffrey Rush | Vincent Cassel | John Gielgud
The story of Elizabeth's ascendency to the throne, the plot of the movie is full of palace intrigues, attempted assassinations and executions. The movie starts with England divided by faith, Protestant vs. Catholic. The queen, Mary Tudor has no heir and her Catholic supporters fear the succession of her half-sister Elizabeth, a Protestant. They convince the queen to have Elizabeth arrested and put in the Tower of London but the queen hesitates and eventually refuses to sign her death warrant. It is announced that the queen is pregnant but it turns out to be a tumor and she dies of it a while later. Her Catholic supporters are forced to give the throne to Elizabeth. Elizabeth's first few years are shaky as she is not versed with the art of realpolitik and "rules from the heart instead of the mind". There is also the question of her succession as she is yet unmarried and her death without heir would mean the throne falling back into Catholic hands. She has many suitors but she eventually rejects them all. And aided by Sir Francis Walsingham she manages to kill all her enemies and ascends the throne as the "Virgin Queen".
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