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01/26/06
Ladies of the Bois de Bologne (1944)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:12
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.3/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: LES DAMES is the sole collaboration of two French cinema giants: Robert Bresson and Jean Cocteau. Cocteau wrote the wonderfully poetic dialogue for the film, while Bresson scripted and directed.... [More]
Reviews for Ladies of the Bois de Bologne
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05/24/03
Top CriticThe performances by both Casares and Labourdette were strikingly captivating and were enough in themselves to carry the film.
08/28/06
Top CriticNo review available.
07/16/05
It is slow, solemn, rigidly conventional and as stilted as a silent film, but it shows Bresson's early ability to catch sober and smoldering moods with his camera.
05/09/05
Top CriticThe fact of Bresson's as yet undeveloped style, coupled with Cocteau’s fearless lyricism, produces a one-of-a-kind film. It’s irreproducible, a jewel.
07/03/04
Bresson's treatment of the material has the marks of his later style, but it's also more overtly stylized than anything else he did later.
05/08/04
Elina Labourdette is wonderful as Agnès, conveying her character’s ethical strength with real beauty within and without.
03/02/04
Les Dames has moments of subtle power that suggest the direction Bresson’s filmmaking aesthetic would eventually take; in fact, it was the last film he made in the traditional style before striking out completely on his own.
07/22/03
Praised by such filmmakers as Jean-Luc Godard and Michelangelo Antonioni, the film is rarely screened.
04/10/03
It is not, by any means, the best film made during the Occupation, but it is a key work in Bresson’s oeuvre and one that is surprisingly absorbing even today.
04/04/03
... a brilliant romantic melodrama...
04/02/03
Like much (if not all) of Bresson's best work, it can't be assimilated to realist criteria, but it's unforgettable for its fire-and-ice evocations of tragedy in an unlikely setting.
03/27/03
Its dialogue still stings, and its heartbreak still rings true.
03/17/03
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