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04/15/09
Cet Amour-La (2002)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:12
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Marguerite Duras, the Indochina-born French author whose books were adapted into plays and films--Alain Resnais' HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1958) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's THE LOVER (1991)--is played by... [More]
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Aymeric Demarigny, Christiane Rorato, Sophie Mileron
Director: Josée Dayan
Reviews for Cet Amour-La
Top CriticIt is a great story, but it hasn't been translated to the screen.
09/20/03
The famously difficult Duras comes off as a grumpy but lovable eccentric, a sort of Auntie Mame with bad moods, who encourages the puppyish Yann to find his own voice and follow his dream.
04/02/03
Top CriticCet Amour-Là founders on the difficulty that faces all movies about artists -- how to contextualize the work into the life without putting the audience to sleep.
06/26/03
No review available.
07/01/05
Overwhelmed by maudlin, somewhat empty musings on Art and Life.
04/04/03
Neither character comes off too well.
10/24/03
I think we’re supposed to feel sad when Duras dies at the end, but I was just glad this incredibly boring movie finally ended.
12/23/02
Dayan never makes the love story accessible to us, never makes us understand what there is between this couple.
09/20/03
Dayan's film is a bizarrely attenuated experience, neglecting dramatic substance and context ... in favor of swooning hagiography.
04/01/03
Moreau's small but telling glances are all the movie has to reveal Duras' loneliness and yearning for a last embrace, but at times it's almost enough.
10/24/03
Ms. Dayan is to be commended for breathing even often-painful life into a relationship that was largely sealed off from the world outside.
04/15/03
Moreau brings to the role the sophistication, creative passion and weary wariness only a fellow great artist could evoke with such effortless conviction.
06/27/03
Moreau presents a magnificently ravaged lioness in winter, feisty as all hell, with occasional tenderness peeking through like rays through storm clouds.
03/22/03
[Moreau] now in her mid-70s, takes charge of her scenes with an iron-fisted authority that refuses to acknowledge the inert movie around her.
05/09/03
Dayan's film gives little sense of what Moreau called a 'scandalous passion', but does provide a dynamic showcase for a marvelous actress.
09/01/02
Like its subject, Cet Amour-La has a knack for making you focus on the beauty beneath the imperfections.
10/03/03
Moreau ... who knew Duras quite well and starred in no fewer than four films based on the writer's work, perfectly embodies her friend, and is thoroughly magnificent.
04/02/03
Alive and affecting.
06/27/03
Top CriticIt's a tender, sympathetic film from a gifted writer-director, Algerian-born Josee Dayan, who obviously adores Moreau, Duras and literature.
11/13/03
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