redrum-03370
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This movie makes me want to break things. I have rarely seen a film so awful. The acting is truly cringeworthy, which is odd because the same actors, when appearing in other films are just fine. Somehow the filmmakers succeeded at bringing together a terrible script, with dialogue that makes you wretch and a director who managed to bring the absolute worst performances out of decent actors.
I'm still trying to decide whether to praise the filmmakers for casting a mentally challenged man (i.e., what we used to refer to as "retarded", or "emotionally disturbed" in the old days) in the role of the principal villain, or whether to call them out for their insensitivity in encouraging the lead villain-actor to portray the character as though he were retarded. When we were kids, we used to get in trouble for imitating the antics of tards. Who knew it was actually an accepted acting style. Very confusing, because in fact sometimes it seemed as though the majority of the characters were mental deficients. I half expected them to whip it out and pee in their food or to masturbate the minute the lights went out. It was like Three Stooges meets Buddy Hackett meets Monty Python (without the humor) and cast them in a middle school presentation of Game of Thrones, directed and performed by a bunch of half-wits recruited from the neighborhood group home.
Shame.
I'm still trying to decide whether to praise the filmmakers for casting a mentally challenged man (i.e., what we used to refer to as "retarded", or "emotionally disturbed" in the old days) in the role of the principal villain, or whether to call them out for their insensitivity in encouraging the lead villain-actor to portray the character as though he were retarded. When we were kids, we used to get in trouble for imitating the antics of tards. Who knew it was actually an accepted acting style. Very confusing, because in fact sometimes it seemed as though the majority of the characters were mental deficients. I half expected them to whip it out and pee in their food or to masturbate the minute the lights went out. It was like Three Stooges meets Buddy Hackett meets Monty Python (without the humor) and cast them in a middle school presentation of Game of Thrones, directed and performed by a bunch of half-wits recruited from the neighborhood group home.
Shame.
... in France, of all places. Believe it or not, they actually showed this film on movie night in St. Martin de Re in southern France. I spent a few months there back in '83 as a temporary guest after an altercation with my book maker.
First of all, Catherine DeNeuve is delicious in this film, as always. Depardieu is superb, playing Mickey Le Dingue with a subtle touch that none of us were expecting. Guards and inmates alike, we cried at the sad parts and cheered on the criminals at the crime parts.
French prisons have gotten a lot of bad publicity of late due to the high suicide rate and the beatings or murders by the guards, and the knife attacks, and that's all true, but underneath the squalor and brutality and physical horror, there's beauty and art, and film and Mickey Le Dingue and Miss Deneuve. It was worth going to prison to see this movie.
First of all, Catherine DeNeuve is delicious in this film, as always. Depardieu is superb, playing Mickey Le Dingue with a subtle touch that none of us were expecting. Guards and inmates alike, we cried at the sad parts and cheered on the criminals at the crime parts.
French prisons have gotten a lot of bad publicity of late due to the high suicide rate and the beatings or murders by the guards, and the knife attacks, and that's all true, but underneath the squalor and brutality and physical horror, there's beauty and art, and film and Mickey Le Dingue and Miss Deneuve. It was worth going to prison to see this movie.
