I am a movie fanatic. I watch movies on TV, at the cinema and I watch them over and over again. This is a way of logging the movies I watch and hopefully a down-to-earth critique of each, for people like me. In no particular order...although my favourite movie is first...



Friday, September 23, 2011

The Big Picture( L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)

YEAR 2010

DIRECTOR Eric Lartigau

STARRING Catherine Deneuve, Branka Katic, Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Rachel Berger

WRITER novel by Douglas Kennedy

OVERVIEW Paul Exben is a success story -- a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons, but in a moment of madness his life is changed, he is forced to assume a new identity.

OPINION  Very clever and intelligent. After so many Hollywood-style movies I found I am not as tolerant of a lengthy movie with so many twists and turns and I  came out of the theatre wondering what kind of job Hollywood would make of this great plot,(then I find it is an American author and has been moved to Paris and Montenegro).Hollywood would hack out at least 3 scenes , shorten the rest and cast Matt Damon in the lead and it would be fantastic. but hey- this movie is fantastique too!!

I came home to google Montenegro and wish I could go there! Reminds me of the movie Matt Damon was in, set in Goa and I googled that too. Fabulous travelogues for these beautiful countries.

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