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Le colonel Chabert (1994)
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21 September 1994 (France) morePlot:
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 6 nominations moreUser Comments:
A haunting story, but one longs for straight forward tale telling moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gérard Depardieu | ... | Chabert |
 | Fanny Ardant | ... | Countess Ferraud |
| Fabrice Luchini | ... | Derville |
| André Dussollier | ... | Count Ferraud |
| Daniel Prévost | ... | Boucard |
| Olivier Saladin | ... | Hure |
| Maxime Leroux | ... | Godeschal |
| Eric Elmosnino | ... | Desroches |
| Guillaume Romain | ... | Simonin |
| Patrick Bordier | ... | Boutin |
| Claude Rich | ... | Chamblin |
| Jean Cosmos | ... | Costaz |
| Jacky Nercessian | ... | Delbecq |
| Albert Delpy | ... | Notary |
| Marc Maidenberg | ... | Servant |
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Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:15 | UK:PGFun Stuff
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First, let me confess that I have not read this particular Balzac novel, so maybe I am directing my cavils unfairly at director and editor. Still my experience with Balzac in other stories is that he writes as a realist, not an obscurantist. This is most certainly a film worth one's while, but one is left sorely puzzled at the end. Was the Colonel a fraud, used by the lawyer for his own ends (or for whose beyond himself); or was the Colonel not a fraud, but used as aforesaid by the lawyer; or did the lawyer truly try to serve the honest Colonel? The director and/or the editor appear to me to have deliberately obscured these questions, which doesn't seem like Balzac, the realist. At the same time the film does an excellent job of delineating the characters, if not their motives, and the cast and production is superb. That opening battlefield scene is bound to haunt one's dreams. Still, one wonders at the all too common penchant among contemporary film makers to favor ambiguity above all else. Weren't the problems and motives of all these characters complicated enough for Yves Angelo?