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starring: Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, Robert Kramer, Alice Greydirected by: Cédric Kahn
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781572529861
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1572529865
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: December 19, 2000
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 47883
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Description:
A middle-aged philosophy teacher begins an affair with a young girl that drives him past the point of obsession when he realizes that he can not possess her.
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Rating: - An erotic romp through French mid-life intellectual angst .
"Jeopardy is jejune now: naïve knight
finds ogres out-of-date and dragons unheard
of, while blasé princesses indict
tilts at terror as downright absurd."
--"Ennui," Sylvia Plath
Much like Plath's poem, in his erotic drama L'Ennui (based on Alberto Moravia's novel L'Ennui--the same writer who provided Jean-Luc Godard with the blueprint for Contempt), Cédric Kahn has created a world that is equally sublime, dark and dangerous. "Ennui" is a French term for ... Read More
Rating:  - A pointless waste of 2 hours of your life
There are some who will look at this film as a deep and sensitive film looking into the psychology of sex and the need for one party to posess the other. In reality this film is just pointless rubbish.
2 hours of utter drivel. This film is more like a sad parody of French cinema. Middle aged teacher seeks out a former lover of a painter who he had met in a sleezy bar and helped save him from getting his head kicked in from not paying his tab. The painter has since died and all our ... Read More
Rating: - An increasingly restless film
I become irritated part way through this film. It's like you are forced to watch Berling's character become increasingly obsessed with Guillemin's, to the point where we are not only disturbed, but also completely perturbed by his inability to let go of Cecilia, who seems so wonderfully and completely uninterested and distant. I admit that while I watched the movie, I had to turn it off part way through; I, myself, became so anxious by and annoyed with Martin's obsessive ness. At first, I thought it ... Read More
Rating:  - L'ennui
It's not my type of a french movie as it supposed to be. It is too sexually!
Rating:  - "Boredom"
After having seen this film my belief that french cinema of the last ten years is a s alive as ever has again been reassured. Many claims have been made, that french films aren`t what they used to be(which they of course aren`t, as time changes), even that the quality of french film production has fallen into mediocrity. But as Jonathan Rosenbaum pointed out already during the 90s in his essay on "Les Voleurs" (1996 / Andre Techine), a film I thoroughly recommend, is that most critics only consider what ... Read More
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