Gerard Depardieu

Can someone explain the ending of the movie “A pure formality” starring Gerard Depardieu and Roman Polanski

Depardieu’s character was dead since begining.
That’s was an afterlife formality.

2011-08-17 ‘Anderson Cooper 360, The Ridiculist: Gérard Depardieu’

All the Mornings of the World (Tous les matins du monde) Two-Disc Edition $18.83 Gérard Depardieu plays a court composer at Versailles whose sense of artistic emptiness causes him to reflect upon his old music teacher (Jean-Pierre Marielle), a man who taught him more than music but whom he ultimately betrayed. (The younger version of Depardieu’s character is portrayed by the actor’s son, Guillaume.) Alain Corneau’s gorgeous 1991 film has a slow, deliberative air about it, wit…

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La Vie en Rose $47.98 Edith Piaf is the subject of La Vie en Rose, director Olivier Dahan’s powerful if emotionally redundant biographical film about the iconic French superstar whose life, as depicted here, seems to have been a numbing succession of tragedies interrupted on occasion by artistic triumph. Dahan’s portrait begins with Piaf’s stay in a brothel as a young girl. Left to the care of her grandmother (who runs…

The Last Metro (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] $23.06 François Truffaut again tackles the elusive nature of creativity and the elusive creation in this thoughtful, sumptuous, 1980 film. Nominated for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar, and a winner of various Césars, The Last Metro is a tale of the theater in occupied France during World War II. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve) manages the Theatre Montmarte in the stead of her Jewish husban…

Mesrine: Killer Instinct: Part 1 [Blu-ray] $19.78 Vincent Cassel is mesmerizing as Jacques Mesrine, the brash bank robber whose bravado, disguise skills, and daring prison escapes captivated Europe and the 1960s and ’70s and made him a folk hero known as the “French Dillinger.” See how Mesrine went from Algeria War veteran to protege of a veteran gangster (Gerard Depardieu) and became an international fugitive in this action-packed thriller. With…

Camille Claudel [VHS] $4.88 “Miss Claudel has become a master.” “She has the talent of a man.” “She’s a witch.” And so Auguste Rodin and friends neatly sum up the sad trajectory of Camille Claudel’s career. We first meet the sculptor as she digs clay with bare fingers from a frozen ditch, in the winter of 1885. By the time the film leaves her, in 1913, she’s an acclaimed, if socially scorned, artist who’s been committed t…

1900 (Three-Disc Collector’s Edition) [Blu-ray] $25.54 Bernardo Bertolucci’s sweeping epic follows the friendship of two men from opposing classes in early 20th-century Italy. Robert De Niro stars as a wealthy but weak-willed landowner who becomes a pawn of the fascists and Gerard Depardieu is a Marxist insurgent farm worker. With Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Stefania Sandrelli. Unrated version; 5 1/4 hrs. on th…

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Two-Disc Special Edition) $10.49 It’s the greatest work of literature, but nobody had ever filmed Hamlet uncut–until Kenneth Branagh went about the task for his lavish 1996 production. The result is a sumptuous, star-studded version that scores a palpable hit on its avowed goal: to make the text as clear and urgent as possible. Branagh himself plays the melancholy son of the Danish court, caught in a famous muddle about whether …

The Man in the Iron Mask $3.10 Footnotes in movie books are likely to reduce this swashbuckling adventure down to a simple description: it was the first movie to star Leonardo DiCaprio after the phenomenal success of Titanic. As such it automatically attracted a box-office stampede of Leo’s young female fans, but critical reaction was deservedly mixed. Having earned his directorial debut after writing the Oscar-winning script f…

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