Let's start by saying that this was extremely enjoyable very funny towards the end.

It is a hodgepodge of genres though not quite sure whether we are looking at a movie on the intricacies of English social classes or a sort of playful low-impact snuff movie with many unexplained elements

The obsession with social class in every single British movie of the last 500 years (sic) and before probably may be highly irritating to folks who do not come from that particular country.

The way it unravels is cleverly done of course there are many plot holes in there many bits which don't really add up but and this is comedy dark noir comedy it doesn't really require explaining every turn and twist with utter implacable logic

For me the main problem here and it took me quite a while to realise what was bugging me was simply the age of the main actor he's meant to be 18 at the start of this and has a face which clamours loudly that he is at least 10 years too old for the part then I checked his age and realised yes he was could they not find somebody of the relevant age ? Sometimes you really ponder about casting in films , Why not use a 40-year-old while you're at it?

Anyway apart from that pretty good great great acting from Rosamund Pike and also Richard E Grant the others were just okay to me

Many accused this film of being derivative mostly naming the Ripley movie as the main source but I did not see this here

To me it was quite original the mix of stately home Oxford young people social class and then something much much darker but funny

I think overall it really really works I give it an eight and to me that is what it is worth Entertaining and then probably will be memorable.

Once upon a time in France a film was not a film if Alain Delon was not present in it, then for far too long it was Depardieu late 70s to 10 years ago far too long now we have Pierre Niney he is only 35 so we could fear Gerard-itis could strike here too

Last year every other French film/series seems to have him in it usually as the main draw

I see no reason for this. The first two at least had a presence of sorts. Unpleasant maybe but a presence. Him not so much. Bit of a girly boy and yet they cast him in very masculine roles

Anyway this viewer here is already Nineyed out in 24

To the film: not bad will give it a six

But the reviews here. Practically the second cinematic coming

Cmon. It is OK no more than that

Apart from the drone shots could have been made in the 50s. VERY "traditionnel"

What is good here?

The storyline but that is Dumas; some say it has been tweaked. Do not remember the book so will take their word for it. The studios Woke police managed to shoehorn a lesbian tryst in it; why deprive ourselves? Indeed

The costumes. The locations, The chateaux. Oh Yes spot on

Spiffingly beautiful actresses especially the young French-Rumanian actress Anamaria Vartolomei did she really sing those songs? Excellent

But really all in all pedestrian it is and all the way through

I do not understand those rave reviews unless you have never been to the cinema before

It is an OK movie which will NOT bore you. Best I can offer here. High Street main stream viewing ...

This is truly excellent a depiction of the excesses of modern day capitalism with migrant workers being exploited within an inch of their lives by a foreman who in effect is only obeying the orders of his masters and the masters are obeying the edicts of the shareholding community i.e. Folks who do not realise the monthly increase of their wealth is basically premised upon the exploitation of said migrant workers (maybe they do) ... what a wonderful system I believe it is called capitalism And personally never been a fan

As regards the film it is extremely well put together with the translator played by a truly bilingual French-Canadian Spanish-speaking actress and a host of Guatemalan actors really showing the workings of the corn maize processing plant somewhere in deep Québec

I watched this with a French subtitle for all of the speech indeed the French-Canadian for me as a native French speaker requires complete and full subtitling otherwise I would be completely at sea let us be clear French-Canadian is not French it is a separate language about as understandable to a French person as any of the Patois and Creoles of the Caribbean and as regards the Spanish which I also understand it was actually easier but this was subtitled in French too which was good

It has a nice flow I think somewhere else somebody mentioned Ken Loach every time somebody makes a film of social import the name of Ken Loach is proferred fair dues I suppose

The denouement is shortened here and we do not actually learn what is going to happen to the translator but we can put two and two together and we may find that she may have sacrificed herself for not very much; anyway excellent film highly recommended if you are interested in the excesses of capitalism in the poor treatment of migrant workers anywhere in the world and in cultural perception of The Other.

The genre here is semi-surrealist Rom-Com .... probably more a chick-flick than it is for the hairy-chested members of the community. Written and directed by Emmanuelle Belohradsky

It unfolds at a really soft pace and shows a situation comedy with many bits added as we go

Some of the scenes are hilarious; it also paints a picture of the French Constabulary which is more than likely fairly accurate; as always when Paris is in a film she steals the show 🙃😉

Particularly loved the 2 elders describing and discussing what they thought the young woman was like. This was gallic gold

The main actor is Jean-Paul Belmondo grandson and I expect he will do well with his understated expressions and guilelessness.

Overall it is VERY original and truly comedic

The final few minutes in the metro at dawn are really beautiful; quite a feat to do that with the metro ....

HIGHLY recommended.

So I read the reviews here and the opinions are very polarized

As often the truth is somewhere in between

Yes there is a reading here of the 60s/70s which is caricatural and aimed at younger folks who never saw those years

Bit of a joke to some

But people do not necessarily know how repressive the mentalities were in early 60s Bavaria

She Uschi Obermaier wanted to break away from the moral straightjacket and she did it elegantly and forcefully

This is shown well here. The boyfriend is depicted as a caveman which he might have been; she is depicted as Kali ; the haircutting of boyfriends' barnet is truly upsetting in a dark magic way but hey might be innocent

The actress they found for Uschi is Polish-born Natalia Avelon and the feat here is that she is even more beautiful than the one she portrays; and yes male viewers she is naked most of the time here; unashamedly. Germany is probably the country in the world which is the most at ease with nudity

We see this here. We also saw it in Carlos (2010) when the Baader Meinhoff blew into Aden

Anyway she is a picture and looks a real lot like Uschi

There is a long part in Pakistan and India very well done then we move to Mexico

They used German actors for Keith Richard and Mick J one really wonders why. No Brits available? A union issue?

Anyway overall not bad at all Kommune Eins at the start is OK altho a tad caricatured

Her fierce independence and girl power is well put in full view

Of course if you want to know more accurately about Uschi Obermaier watch Rote Sonne (1970) you will get the right idea.

Two "Punk A Chiens" friends on the road from Brittany to the south and back and they have many ups and downs their friendship hits a couple of rocky swirlies then they split they have their own adventures

We see a lot of the alternative crusty culture which is so prevalent or was in the UK in the 80s the Convoy people

• These here are their French counterparts expect strong opinions occasional bust-ups but mostly a lot of Love and deep care for each other and the folks around them "Los de Abajo; les gens du bas" the downtrodden of Globalization who would rather live in an old truck or in a squat than do telemarketing for the corporations ....

• we cannot but applaud and be touched by the sweetness of these 2 and it is expertly filmed and stitched together by the director

Highly recommended.

After 1980 companies in the West farm out/outsource their factories to countries where they pay MUCH lower wages making local populations redundant unemployed destitute

This has been going on for 40 years now And the results are shown here in this community in the Ardennes where the last factory is about to close much unrest anger etc etc

This is a Robin Hood tale about a local bad boy from a broken home who does a heist on a company van kills a driver and runs off shot with 4 million Euros goes into hiding ...

It triggers off a chain of events; involving a childhood friend also the return of a local lass now a gendarme who will have to deal with her allegiances to her job versus her roots

Happy to see Marion Barbeau back in the saddle as an actress. Had loved her performance in En corps (2022) for me one of the best films of last 10 years. Anyway she is here and does a decent job as do the others

But the star of the film here is the story itself and the misery visited upon the population by the economic brutality of the system

This will resonate loudly in France right now; a country fractured by economic inequalities which have led the nation to fight the government from many different angles ...

Folks interested in social matters should make a beeline for this one; it is not a masterpiece but a very good social commentary.

Menage à trois or triolism here seen through some (but not all) Scandinavian eyes

In French cinema there are countless numbers of joyful life-affirming examples of movies where it all is depicted as a great bonding loving exercise

• here not so much.🙂🙃😉

OKay so a French girl in fact Alma Jodorowsky the granddaughter of director Alejandro Jodorowsky has to be used as the tin opener; because we take it Northern Protestants do not do things of that depraved nature ....🙃

• But the kicker here is that the main actress here is the one who kickstarted the menage

• then of course and to corroborate every cliche non-Scandinavians have of Scandinavians she goes into an industrial-strength blue funk and BLAMES her reluctant partner for the event and fall-out including the shakiness of their superannuated high-school tryst

I am convinced a lot of young Swedes will be appalled at that; I would wager they do not take it all SOOOOOOOOO seriously

Overall mildly entertaining if a bit TOO effin miserable most of the time, Grimy London does not help; felt sorry for the boyfriend all the way through

Treat yourself to how it is properly done watch. Les valseuses (1974) or César et Rosalie (1972) That is how you do it. You do not bleat afterwards 😉😉

PS just watched the second season and then it gets very dull and grim all fun is removed ...

There is some really truly funny comedy in here there is a little bit too much of Pierre Niney but if we can get over that some of the ancillary characters, come up with lines at times which will slay you completely the young girl Juliette Gasquet when she says "working girl on the tarmac got it " had me in stitches.

The problem here is that the storyline is moronic okay we get it he made a film and everything went south that is it that is the storyline there is nothing else to it so the entire piece is only held together by the incredible acting skills and personalities here and some of the comedy lines which one feels at times were improvised by the players themselves

Some of the lines by François Civil are totally astounding as is his delivery

But overall the storyline is incredibly unidimensional we do not care if we are not in the business of filmmaking or want to be in the business of filmmaking how about those films are made this is so tedious as interesting as going to a bakery and instead of the guy handing you two baguettes and the fact that he had to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and knead for an hour and a half we don't care this is not what we came here for or going to a Dentist and he explaining to you the intricacies of his training we have no interest in what goes on behind the scenes just give us a good story acted properly and if it is a comedy as it is here make us laugh there are countless movies made over the years I remember La nuit américaine (1973) by the highly revered François Truffaut all those years ago same exact problem

Anyway if you want to face seven episodes of actors and actresses showing you how difficult it is to be them and be paid handsomely for the privilege watch this and yes there will be some humongously funny one-liners and jokes again probably if you are not of a Gallic persuasion they will ride past you leaving no mark whatsoever this is what the French call Franco-French humour really only compatible with the local market (which it is aimed at anyway)

But yes some good giggles ....

• All the way through
• Was fearing it might go tits up after a while but it does not do that at any point
• It is solid from the point of view of story acting rhythm all the way through
• The main actor here Aaron Pierre is truly magnetic. Don Johnson best remembered from Miami Vice all those years ago is a baddie here and does this in sterling fashion

• the couple of Aaron Pierre and AnnaSophia Robb functions brilliantly as the renegades

This is truly a great rotten cops tale and it is hard to get tired of that Serpico (1973) is referenced here as a codename and really as an homage

• one cannot walk away from this without mentioning the word "race" and what it has meant and still means in US history. It is a big elephant in the front room throughout the piece

Highly highly recommended if you care for quality cinema.

.... Macedonian movie my first I must confess found it on the SBS Australian movie page and at first I thought no it aint gonna grab me then it did a bit then it did more then i was smitten with the entire thing

Clever social tableau pitting the countryside vs Skopje the modern city and modern ways Yuppie couple not conceiving farm it out to a sister who has learning issues etc etc

A very moral story in the end laced with all the themes of modern-day anywhere ... city living neighbours lesbianism triolism wealth differentials between human groups gender roles ... the main thing is how it all plays out here

Was not aware Macedonian was so close to Russian ... at times having more than a passing knowledge of Russian I could understand bits of conversation that was nice

Acting was good from all

Will seek out other Macedonian productions ....

The denouement the last 10 minutes are really good.

This is most excellent

• it shows the cleaning ladies of a Luxury Hotel 16.000 Euros/night (more than these women earn in a year) for the top suite getting reamed by management and farmed out services sub-contractors and all these beautiful weapons of Neoliberalism/Globalism etc etc

• for examples they are not even given enough vacuum cleaners to do the punishing gymkhana tasks they are asked to do some of their overtime is not even renumerated

• It shows how unless put under extreme pressure they will not EVER care about les petites mains / helpers /the little people who keep their establishment running

• Most of these exploited women are West-Africans also struggling with residency issues with The State

• It is done very stylishly here we have a main actress quite magnetic she is too but really it is about all of them here; and in a wider fashion all the exploited of modern-day capitalist shenanigans

• We are for British/Anglo-saxon viewers in Ken Loach territory here deep in it in fact

More of these films need to be made; this one here a fine example. If you are interested in social justice and the obscene excesses of Capitalism treat yourself to this.

One of the best things I have seen on screen in a long time I will give it a 10 for episode one to 6 it is all tight scenes running into each other in an elegant fashion and one thing that has to be said for this series the acting is first class from most of the players in fact practically all of them certainly all the main ones. Between six and 10 there is too much chopping and changing too many changes it gets a little frantic overintricate too many turns as if the makers thought we need to speed this up and frankly that really mars it

• Earlier this year I watched Griselda (2024) which was grimmer than this one here but pretty much the same territory i.e. Florida second half of the 70s Cocaine wars etc etc not a big fan of the aspect of that series which is to do with the cocaine and all that but it is extremely well acted and although it loses a bit of its shine towards the end the final episode being a little bit cheesy towards the end it is still overall a really really great series highly recommended I certainly hope they run a second series

But for me they will need to stop adding plots and subplots and plots within the plots in the words of Mies Van Der Rohe less is more They should abide by that

• PS The whole time I am watching this and the main actor the one playing Compte Danny Pino the more I look at his face and think I recognise this guy I have seen him before; and then it dawned on me that I am looking at a Latin version of Neil Young same features but Latin when I realised this was who I thought I was looking at I could not afterwards stop thinking about Neil Young every time I saw him.

-PS2 the teen romance in there was just darling.

... That under the guise of comedy we are really truly here to remind the most intellectually challenged in our country that everything your government does is for your benefit to remind you that all these black box projects that we run on your tax dollars are basically there to protect you Hahaha from enemies we have entirely created from scratch they are named here in case you weren't sure

• if you forgot to watch Fox on an hourly basis so they are Russia and satellites also China North Korea Iran okay population these are the baddies these are the baddies these are the baddies got it?

So it is a movie to underline American dysfunctionality in relation to the world outside that is the project in order to do this we keep the IQ level required to watch this film under the 60 point mark

• Okay enough of that now to the film.

The acting is astounding Halle Berry Mark Wahlberg JK Simmons are truly excellent here and if it were not for them I would've bailed after 10 minutes in fact no because the first 10/15 minutes of the film required some degree of intelligence and it was some kind of a film it looked interesting then it goes deep deep dumb then dumb and dumber and remains there and is practically entirely carried by the acting skills and the locations first London (not a cutie) and then Croatia you take away the actors and the locations and you have no film simply an infomercial for deep state America

So to summarise if you can park your brain for an hour and a half and want to enjoy mild amusement this is the film for you otherwise give it a wide berth

AND do not forget Your enemies are come on folks repeat after me Russia China North Korea Iran Russia China North Korea Iran okay class ... dismissed.

Interesting piece all centred around palm Oil and the effects palm oil has on the world markets governments money men and therefore on everybody else by extension.

• A young man who wants to save the planet goes to work for an NGO but in fact wants to investigate the treatment meted out to the Dayak a People of Indonesia In Kalimantan and the fact that the palm oil company is hiring Australian mercenaries to basically do away with the local population and interfere with their daily lives.

• This is a typical tale of a young Westerner giving himself a missionary position self-appointing himself to be the saviour of the planet And humanity.

• His mother a school teacher has told him that if you want to change the world you may find that the world will fight back.

That in a nutshell is the storyline self-righteous young man versus worldwide high finance vested interests.

• There is only one winner in that kind of fight.

The acting Throughout is so and so. The Australian actor Adam Fitzgerald is very good as is Sofian Khammes The two main players to my eyes and ears do not really get there. The overall story is interesting; the way it is played out and delivered is a tad predictable.

• Every stage is telegraphed ahead of time and it shows the usual corrupt set of humans Doing what they do best i.e. Corrupting and being corrupted. The way in which this story ends is probably the most interesting part of the entire tale apart from making us aware of the ravages of the Indonesian rainforests that palm oil is creating.

All in all worth seeing if you care about the planet and the destruction of the forests; but be forewarned this is not a cinematic masterpiece.

Twisted and really fun

Here we have Blanche Gardin one of the best standups in modern-day France paired up with the ultimate passive-aggressive darling writer of the contemporary French literary firmament Michel Houellebecq; he is hilarious here as he was in L'enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (2014) and Thalasso (2019). When i saw some bright spark Guillaume Nicloux same director as previous 2 now seen as a trilogy had linked those 2 in a film i jumped at the opportunity of seeing the results and was truly not disappointed

This is dry humour at its best; laced with psychedelia (DMT/MDMA etc) plays a part here as well as surrealism; low-level insanity in a cocktail of Ubuesque happenings and set in Guadeloupe bringing in mock elements of colonialism, musings on racism; which start in Paris before they even get there with an elderly white woman Françoise Lebrun who was so brilliant all those years ago in La maman et la putain (1973) with her hugely tall Black nephew; and their remarks on the fact that he is unexpected as a nephew since so tall ... not mentioning race

The story is articulated around a lookalike competition of Michel Houellebecq which is farcical as the lookalikes really do not .... I mean really not

The disparate elements are weaved elegantly and you come away from this chortling to yourself

• Best line for me was Blanche Gardin remarking on the fact that the White inbred farmer-settlers on the hill were "en train de fabriquer des trisomiques dans les collines" producing (as in factory) down syndromes in the hills; also the driver of the limo who insisted on speaking Guadeloupean Patois to the Parisians knowing well they could not understand a single word

So it subtly mocks colonial setups which the French still have around the World ie New Caledonia Guadeloupe Martinique French Guiana Reunion etc etc but then again that is just one of the strands here

THis is intelligent humour here; and with Blanche Gardin Michel Houellebecq Françoise Lebrun Jean-Pascal Zadi Luc Schwarz one would not expect less

Highly recommended to folks who like their humour twisted surreal and a smidgeon dark.

Yes all those things. It is light like egg-whites beaten fast and ready to be baked

the acting from all is excellent if at time it feels like acting workshop say like you make a quilt but you can see all the stitching; but it does not matter it adds to it

also one is reminded of the old New Age adage "careful what you ask for" . Linklater seldom disappoints and no it does not here either; it moves at a good pace elegantly and you will laugh many times; a lot of it is predictable but that does not mar anything

their behaviour is sociopathic criminal and highly reprehensible and yet at the level of logic it totally stands

If only all films were at least as good at this .....

So here we have a storyline that is quite simple as the south Vietnamese right-wingers run away to the USA a young man from the Communist side sneaks amongst them and goes to the USA with them the idea being to report on HQ back in Hanoi about their shenanigans planning etc etc so far so good it is quite a nice clever plot

• We are given oodles of Robert Downey Jr. I think and I lost count he plays four different characters in there with totally different outfits Robert Downey Jr. Is a great actor but his enunciation is very very poor it is almost impossible to understand what he says at times subtitles were extremely welcome here I have seen that before with him in different films.

• The storyline is very original because you have the young Vietnamese man the Communist in the States and parallel to that you have the tale of him if he had stayed behind we think and he's in a prison and recounting what happened to him when he went to the USA and writing it up as a confession for the Komissar so there is a kind of dream world alternative story line running alongside the main story it is a tad confusing at times but quite creative and original

A lot of the time the language of choice is Vietnamese as suits the story so we flit between American English and Vietnamese sometimes 10 times in one episode there are seven episodes of one hour each about

• It is well put together very well stitched a tad confusing at times due to the aforementioned parallel storylines it is quite humorous I think we get rather oversaturated with Robert D but since he is such a great actor it is okay in the end

It feels as if this could've been a hugely brilliant piece of work and instead it is a very adequate piece of work which feels as if it has fallen short of the mark for some reason which we cannot quite pinpoint

Totally worth seeing for originality and also the subject matter I do not see many films/series made about what happened to the ones who fled in 1975

PS wrote a separate piece about episode 4 Give Us Some Good Lines (2024) which struck me as the best one out of the 7.

... seen Sorcerer now and it strikes me as a properly countercultural film very much in the vein of Zabriskie Point (1970) in the way that it is extremely nihilistic and ends up with destruction. Zabriskie Point had Pink Floyd doing the soundtrack here we have Tangerine Dream and in both cases the soundtrack is indissociable from the film itself. In the case of Sorcerer William Friedkin actually said that the music Tangerine Dream made cannot be taken away from the film otherwise the film would not exist or something to that extent. Sorcerer was their first film score and led to many more in the 80s and beyond

• I still think Zabriskie Point is a superior movie to Sorcerer but Sorcerer has got quite a moody feel and although the storyline is very simplistic it takes you somewhere and says something about the Zeitgeist Of the second half of the 70s. Also not to discount the vistas from the Dominican Republic and Mexico

• In these two films to which you could add More (1969) by Barbet Schroeder the main characters end up a-cropper and quite frankly it reminds one of the Baader-Meinhoff saga which took place at around the same time as those movies.

I had no awareness of the filmmaker William Friedkin but then realised that I had seen The French Connection (1971) the first part which he had directed and also The Exorcist which I have never seen and have no appetite for .... he also says somewhere he wanted Tangerine Dream to score The Exorcist

To summarise I would say Sorcerer is a good film to recommend to folks who enjoy counterculture the music of Tangerine Dream and who are students of the 1970s Zeitgeist. I was not overimpressed with the cast; apparently he could not get the high-hitters he wanted : Steve McQueen Lino Ventura etc and had to do with Roy Scheider whom I found here to be a tad wooden as the lead; none of the main 4 were really stellar ; adequate at best and there is value in saying that a more stellar cast would have swung this opus into a higher sphere. Anyway it got made we heard Tangerine Dream so all good

It is no masterpiece and was not well-received at the time and lost over $10 million as it cost $22 million to make and only brought in about five or nine million anyway watch it make up your own mind.

Really cool piece

Not quite sure what genre

Not horror

More rites-of-passage puberty tale with highly humorous and also serious themes blended in; shamanism is very present here too

The Malay village and surroundings/nature it is set in so beautiful

The acting from the three girls; this a teen buddy movie too really very good; the ancillaries pull their weight too; the parents are excellent in this too; the über-laidback dad an absolute treat

Watching more and more films and series from Asia and the quality is really as good as anything from The West often on a par with

Highly advised for folks who are interested in good cinema shamanism and the thorny time in a person's life we call teenage.

PS For the ones of you who have not seen it; watching Cat People (1982) would explain why I titled the review Cat People for 12 year old. The 1982 was not the first but it was an excellent film.

Anyone who says she only got in there due to her loox misses the point olympically she came from a long line of artists; her great-grand father was Arnold Böcklin her father was a classical musician etc etc; she was quadrilingual; the "London hicks" which made up the Rolling Stones were very lucky to have her. Keith Richards says as much. You can see they were all 3; Mick Brian and Keith totally in awe of her. Spellbound. Anyone who has seen her perform in masterfilm Mord und Totschlag (1967) will fully understand. She was also luminous in Performance (1970)another great film She could be described as a truly modern woman; in many ways a precursor a path-clearer for women as they are now in the 2020s; and she was doing all this 20 years after the end of the war

It is interesting to note that she was ethnically 100% German; although she defined herself as Italian; since in effect she was born and grew up in Rome she was Italian culturally; so in fact modern here again as in a true EU denizen before there was an EU. Must be noted that Marianne Faithfull was also Germanic in her case Austrian. 20 years after the war the Deptford boys were not bitter ... 🙃😉

As regards the way it is all stitched together here; I was really put out by the überAmerican voice-over to read the autobiographical lines from Anita's unpublished writings; could they not find an English reader with a tinge of German in the voice. It would have been a lot less disconcerting

This is really my only gripe here. Apart from that the footage is very interesting; a lot of Super8; adored the footage of Peru ?!?! And Morocco when on vacation

She was a true catalyst, Muse, artist, and they show here how quite a few songs were triggered by her or even about her. When she filmed Performance (1970) and ended up having a dalliance with Mick ; says she never really fell for him; Keith was away and wrote Gimme Shelter; later on in Peru Mick writes "You Can't Always Get..." it is intimated that what he couldn't get was her ...

Not seen all of it yet will return if more info; thus far very good (apart from the miscast voice-over ) ha then i find out the voice is Scarlett Johansson a hugely brilliant New Yorker yep not first choice for a German-Italian but I guess the cachet, the cachet ,,,,

Moving moving moving

personally I rate Bonnard as one of the greats of the 20th C ; in my top five; most of them French (1900 -1925) or German expressionists from the same time frame

knew nowt about his life and Marthe; I do now if this is accurate a depiction of their lives

he is known for the complexity of his strokes and the fact that Picasso hated him always made me like him even more "he uses yellow green pink blue brown" he needs to make up his mind and use only one said the Malagueño brute; he could not see it .... his loss , too understated for him

Marthe in the bath (multiple versions) is one of the most subtle works of the 20thC

Anyway to the filum. Was very dubious when i saw they had cast. Vincent Macaigne as Pierre and Cécile de France as Marthe

I have seen them in so many films always comedies and brilliant both of them in those it seems Vincent Macaigne must have dieted severely to play the elfin Bonnard I have seen him to be usually portly; but I was very surprised they really shifted into those characters; I suppose that is what great actors do.

Totally recommended for lovers of Art before Duchamp destroyed Art 🙂🙃😉 single-handedly; also great scenes in French countryside here.

This episode really to me is different from what we have seen so far; it is truly comedic and yet has great drama in it too

The addition of Sir David Duchovnycertainly does not hurt proceedings but it is more than that; all the elements seem to gel here ; much is made of the confusion with the extras who are not Vietnamese but generic Asian and it creates hilarious scenes with them the crew

Still finding it odd with the parallel storylines and flashbacks; added ghost in this one from previous episode .... but yes personally would give 1-3 a 4 or 5 rating but here it jumps effortlessly to a 9

Hope the improved flow is carried on in remaining 3 episodes. EDIT: it does not we now know.