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Release Date:
12 May 1999 (Belgium)
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A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister and he begin an unusual relationship with her prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins
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(13 articles)
Birthday Suits: Deserve's Got Nothin' To Do With it
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Decade in Review: 2000 Top Ten
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Yeah, Yeah... Let's watch people think
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Guillaume Depardieu | ... | Pierre | |
| Yekaterina Golubeva | ... | Isabelle | |
| Catherine Deneuve | ... | Marie | |
| Delphine Chuillot | ... | Lucie | |
| Laurent Lucas | ... | Thibault | |
| Patachou | ... | Margherite | |
| Petruta Catana | ... | Razerka | |
| Mihaella Silaghi | ... | The Child | |
| Sharunas Bartas | ... | The Chief | |
| Samuel Dupuy | ... | Fred | |
| Mathias Mlekuz | ... | TV presenter | |
| Dine Souli | ... | Taxi driver | |
| Miguel Yeco | ... | Augusto | |
| Khireddine Medjoubi | ... | Cafe owner's son | |
| Mark Zak | ... | Romanian friend |
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Also Known As:
Pierre oder Der Kampf mit der Sphinx (Germany) (TV title)
Pierre ou les ambiguïtés (France) (TV title (longer version))
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Pierre ou les ambiguïtés (France) (TV title (longer version))
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134 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:Not Rated |
Iceland:16 |
France:U |
Portugal:M/16 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:18 |
South Korea:18 (edited version) |
Germany:18
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The "X" in the title represents the number of drafts the script went through.
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Margherite:
Be careful! You dream of writing a mature work, but your charm lies in your thorough immaturity. You dream of setting fire to God knows what, of rising above your times like a dazzling cloud, leaving everyone terrified and admiring. But you weren't born for that, Pierre! You don't even believe it yourself.
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Referenced in The Killing Floor (2007)
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Zai Na Yao Yuan De Di Fang
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Take about 1 hour from this film and we might have something really worth watching. Starts with one of the most impressive visual starts for a film I've ever seen but goes down hill real quick. There's also a great computer generated dream sequence. All the characters are mysterious so it takes a few days to figure out what you saw and even then you still will not really understand the motivation for some of them. It's too bad because there's some very good working material here. Add a rather explicit love scene (with body doubles doing the hard work) and some overall oddness and you've got your basic French art film. Yeah, yeah....