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Portraits chinois (1996)
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25 June 1997 (France)
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Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through...
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Bad French Melodrama with often unreadable subtitles
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Helena Bonham Carter | ... | Ada |
 | Romane Bohringer | ... | Lise |
| Jean-Philippe Écoffey | ... | Paul |
| Marie Trintignant | ... | Nina |
| Elsa Zylberstein | ... | Emma |
 | Yvan Attal | ... | Yves |
| Sergio Castellitto | ... | Guido |
 | Miki Manojlovic | ... | Alphonse |
| Jean-Claude Brialy | ... | René Sandre |
| Sophie Simon | ... | Agnès |
| Emmanuelle Escourrou | ... | Stéphanie |
| Katerina Mechera | ... | Emilia (as Katia Mechera) |
| Mathilde Seigner | ... | Fanny |
| Artus de Penguern | ... | Gérard |
| Pierre Baillot | ... | Monsieur Verdoux |
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Shadow Play
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References The Young Savages (1961)
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Maman, Papa
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This plays like a French Woody Allen movie. Even the music is reminiscent of a New York scene. And, of course, they talk and talk and talk and talk and flirt and talk and talk and talk and make love and talk and talk and talk and jerk off at the office and talk and talk...
You get the idea. Heck, you can even hear their inner dialogue and see the fantasies they're picturing in their heads at any given moment. By the first 10 minutes, though, you wish they would just get it over with. I only lasted through about half of the movie, then I just got too bored.
AND, for about a quarter of the movie, all this talking is unintelligible if you don't understand French because the **(@#(*$ white subtitles get lost in the white tablecloth, in the white dresses, etc. But this is just another reason to not bother with this one.