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Golden Globe winner Gérard Depardieu stars as a Jesuit priest, Dr. Joachim Ferrer. Harboring a secret from his violent past and having found solace in the church, he soon finds himself caught in a web of intrigue when a young Carmelite nun, Sarah, is rushed to the hospital. Suffering from inexplicable pain and delusions, Joachim recognizes in Sarah the familiar symptoms of repression and denial. What no one knows is the terrifying secret she carries inside her...a secret her twin sister Gaelle, three thousand miles away, also shares. Caring turns to obsession and the doctor begins a private investigation, which takes him halfway across the world and leads him to Gaelle. Caught between his obsession to uncover the truth and his growing attraction to Gaelle, Joachim rejects his commitment to faith and follows his instincts to a terrifying and unimaginable conclusion.
Special Features
- Director's Commentary (with actress Elodie Bouchez)
- Trailers
DVD Technical Information:
- Running Time: 85 minutes
- Language: English, Italian, Russian, Spanish
- Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
- Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic - 2.35:1
- Disc Type: DVD5
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26 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The DVD arrived today. Whilst at lunch (A French Lunch)I viewed the film. Excellent. Acting is good. Storyline excellent. Gerard Depardieu plays an intersting part, and Elodie Bouchez is forcused on her part(s) - I wouldn't say the ending is foreseeable (in part) it does leave you wondering! but the whole film is a must and typical of French films (No American lets not offend crap here) - Watch and enjoy. I think the main theme of this film is that it does actually make you wonder at who is who and what happens between twins!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
not the best thriller....not the worst
23 May 2005
Format:DVD
Perhaps if the ending had been different I would have rated this film much higher. The acting was superb and the plot (3/4 of it anyway) was fascinating and kept me glued to the screen. However, I agree with other reviewers who found the script too deliberately confusing for it's own good. It did not need to be so ambigious ALL of the time to keep the mysterious secret of the identical twins. The immediate romance made sense (sidetracking the pursuit of the "secret", the pursuit of experiencing "real life" as the Priest invites the one twin to do, as well as furthering the view of redemption through love) but it seems to unravel once all of the main characters arrive at one place at the same time. The twins ending up wearing the same clothes just to keep the audience confused as to their real identities was way too unrealistic and somewhat ruined it for me not to mention that the climax scene made no sense at all AND this is despite my knowing which twin was which (since one twin greets the other when they reunite and gives away the name of each twin at the hand holding scene). Why would Sarah be mad at Gaelle?? The reason she states is unrealstic and unexplainable especially when you discover the truth! Highly recommend the film only if you can overlook some major flaws and concentrate instead on the flawless acting and intresting themes of religion, redemption and the different meanings of love.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Mystery solved. Next!
29 Nov 2004
Format:DVD
A sullen girl is imprisoned in France. A young nun in Brazil is tormented by mysterious abdominal pain. Father Joachim (Gerard Depardieu), the priest-surgeon assigned to the nun's case, is mystified by her ailment and fascinated when its cause cannot be determined. Perhaps he sees in the young woman's secretiveness a reflection of his own violent past? What is the connection between these cases and the mysterious words "screel deen" that the nun screams in her agonies?
The filmmaker strings us along for the better part of an hour, as we tease out the mysterious connections. We are treated to mysterious voodoo rituals on the beach, a nosy journalist wannabe, an improbably love story and a mother with secrets of her own. There is so much deliberate confusion and unclear switched identities that by the end, I wasn't sure what happened and I cared even less.
BTW: This film is rated R only for 1 shot of a nun binding her breasts during the opening credits.
The filmmaker strings us along for the better part of an hour, as we tease out the mysterious connections. We are treated to mysterious voodoo rituals on the beach, a nosy journalist wannabe, an improbably love story and a mother with secrets of her own. There is so much deliberate confusion and unclear switched identities that by the end, I wasn't sure what happened and I cared even less.
BTW: This film is rated R only for 1 shot of a nun binding her breasts during the opening credits.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Confused
17 Mar 2005
Format:DVD
At first, I found this film rather slow but ended up quite gripping. And then it ended. It left many unanswered questions that really would have made this a deeper, more substantial film. While I enjoyed the film, it could definitely have been less mysterious than it was. I would likely have to watch it again to see if I missed something.
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