[Fauteuils d'orchestre]
2007 - France
Director
Danièle Thompson
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Pleasant if not always original ensemble romance; depressing, but a good move, one supposes, that this was France’s official entry for the Academy Awards foreign film award last year. France does better and goes deeper, but this is agreeable, straightforward, (and yes, good!); easy to predict its appeal to a mainstream American audience. Anyway, our plucky heroine offers little (a slightly more somber, realistic Amelie let loose in Paris for the first time), but the supporting characters are variously interesting, and the film gains momentum in its last half hour or so.
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» Dragonwyck 1946, Joseph L Mankiewicz
» The Spiral Staircase 1945, Robert Siodmak
» The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934, Alfred Hitchcock
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