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starring: Jeanne Moreau, Sean Young, Sam Waterston, Christopher Cazenove, Nell Carterdirected by: Ismail Merchant
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304385654
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630438565X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: October 21, 1997
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 34118
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 1996
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Description:
A revered French expatriate author (Moreau) who has spent 30 years in New York is now returning to Paris and the home in which she lived with her mother before the German Occupation separated the two of them forever. The author, now in her 60s, is confronted by two cultures, American and French; two time periods, the past and the present, and relationships with friends and lovers, old and new, as she attempts to consider and make sense of her life and memories.
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Rating:  - This film should be illegal
One of the worst movies ever. A sorry waste of time and film. The directing is trite, the performances are ridiculous and even the sets and costumes offer no redemption. Just awful. Outdone only by Merchant's other film "Cotton Mary". Really, the guy should stick to producing and let Ivory do the directing. I feel for the actors who participated in this farce and hope that they were able to pick up their careers after such an embarrassment.
Rating: - Thumbs down, s'il vous plait.
A perfectly awful film in the typical Merchant Ivory boring-but-stylish mode. But for the presence of the incomparable Jean Moreau and the stylish-ness of the interiors and exteriors (Madeleine Castaing's Paris apartment etc etc), it rates the two thumbs down category. As a comic relief,don't fast forward the scenes that include klutzy Sean Young (tripping about in spiked heels and mini-skirt)who in a truly forgettable scene is whisked away to the dance floor to perform a tango so clumsily executed ... Read More
Rating: - Unquestionably horrendous
This film was so bad that I could not stop watching it it - Iwanted to see what trite, overworked movie cliche would pop up next. I laughed my head off in the the scenes where I believe the intent was for the viewer to be sobbing his or her head off. The only excusable actor was Sean Young: we already know how truly terrible she is. But for the rest of the cast to come down to her level - shame on them.
This is currently tops on my list of movies I love to hate
Rating:  - A Wonderful Collage of Past and Present
In his book, The Films of Merchant Ivory, Robert Emmet Long says that The Proprietor is not a perfect film and details some of the blurring that distracts the viewer, particularly a rather quick metamorphosis by Sean Young's character.
He does however add that the film is likely to become a Moreau classic. I will agree with him, but want to add that this film seems to be such an achievement, a collaboration of so many talents, that the end product could not help but be rather wonderful.
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Rating:  - True French
This was a wonderful look at Paris, and the story, though disjointed at times, follows a theme of memories with ties to the present. Beautifully filmed, beautiful music, lovely costumes. Presented France and the French in a very true fashion. Worth watching if you love France as I do.
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