VHS : The Last Days of Chez Nous
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Rating:  - As disconnected and disjointed as films come: CHEZ NOUS
CHEZ NOUS-French for "Our House"....and a most unpleasant house it is in Gillian Armstrongs's 1992 Down Under film THE LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS.This is 90 minutes of complete disconnect of both people and consciences and Armstrong directs it accordingly.
Beth (Lisa Harrow) is a writer who lives in suburban Sydney,Australia with her French husband Jean-Pierre (Bruno Ganz).He has married her in order to ultimately obtain citizenship; but it would seem that their marriage is on shaky foundation.Beth's ... Read More
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I didn't think this terrifically good, although the acting was superb. Mostly a character study about two sisters and the husband of the eldest.
Rating:  - Biiter-sweet romancing with an air of doom
This is classic Gillian Armstrong giving us a snapshot of inner-urban life in a Sydney home one long humid summer.
JP (played brilliantly by Bruno Ganz who was so memorable in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire") is a Frenchman far from home. With his marriage to Beth (a woman whose vitality seems to have been snuffed out by marriage) already under stress, it takes only the arrival of Beth's wild and vibrant sister Vicki to send everything spinning out of control.
Vicki is Beth mirror ... Read More
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