Celestial Clockwork

Name: Mécaniques célestes
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1995-05-17
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Ariadna Gil, Arielle Dombasle, Evelyne Didi

Original title: Mécaniques célestes

1995
1h 25m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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Comedy

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is film... Read allAna bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is filming an operatic Cinderella, but will Ana "fit into the glass slipper" before she is deport... Read allAna bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is filming an operatic Cinderella, but will Ana "fit into the glass slipper" before she is deported back to Caracas? The evil, plotting, self-absorbed Celeste tries to thwart Ana, but Ana... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

397

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins

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Quotes
[Ana wants to sing something by Rossini]
Grigorief: No! No Italians here! Music is serious business!

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Multiplicity/The Frighteners/Kazaam/Fled/Celestial Clockwork (1996)

Soundtracks
Ouveture (Sinfonia)
(from opera "La Cenerentola")
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Claudio Abbado
(p) 1973 Deutsche Grammophone

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So precious it gave me a headache

So many positive comments for this film I had to throw some reality in here. Now maybe if you are a woman going through a midlife crisis or someone who gets really hot about movies that have to do with the Tango you will like this movie.

I found the camera's obsessive adoration of the female lead and her impish expression when lip synching opera to be just too precious. I walked out after 45 minutes because I just couldn't take it anymore. I at least find Hitchcock's obsessiveness with a star interesting in its perversity and he had the sense to try to mask it. It is bare and naked here and very embarassing.

I wish that I drank so that I could forget this film. Unfortunately I can't think of any other movie that would be better which maybe a comment on my limited movie going or the lack of films with female characters that are comedies.