- Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet, Annie Girardot
- Directors: Bertrand Blier
- Writers: Bertrand Blier
- Producers: Bernard Marescot, Catherine Blier Florin, Jean-Louis Livi
- Language English
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Nouveau
- VHS Release Date: 8 April 2002
- Run Time: 117 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000062Y2D
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,225 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
An easy watch, not. Its timeline shifts unapologetically from late 80s to Occupation-era France and back again, with characters and themes spilling between the two. Just as one becomes accustomed to a (relatively) starightforward tale of Love In A Modern Age (infidelity, AIDS, collapse of the family model) MLV is shunted backwards violently to a period which defined Western Europe - and in which in its depiction earned the film a mixed reception on its French debut. Gainsbourg (as ever) and Anouk Grinberg carry the film, but there's a range of star turns along the way including a dark tour de force from M. Depardieu. Listen out too for Arno's franglais soundtrack - and spare some saline for the closing sequence, as Blier reminds us what lies ahead.
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Merci la vie - VHS Version
14 July 2009
Format:VHS Tape|Amazon Verified Purchase
Two young girls are desperate to explore life and, more importantly, get an understanding of its effect on them. Their search for new experiences and explanations carries them back and forth between present day France and the war time occupation.
"Merci La Vie is an extraordinary journey of discovery, set in both the present and the past, by two young girls, desperate to explore life and, more importantly, get an understanding of its effect on them. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Anouk Grinberg are excellent as they search for new experiences and explanations for their current circumstances, which carry them back and forth between present day France and the war time occupation. They are supported by the outstanding Gerard Depardieu, playing a crooked and amoral doctor."
"Bertrand Blier, writer and director of the acclaimed "Trop Belle Pour Toi", has created an incredibly imaginative and daring film using startling color and a fantastic range of music, including Philip Glass, Beethoven, David Byrne, Chopin, and Vivaldi."
This movie is entirely in French (no subtitles). This is a very rare and hard to find Charlotte Gainsbourg movie. The movie would probably get an R rating for violence, adult themes and brief nudity (by Anouk Grinberg and a scene where the Germans have packed train loads of nude people into box cars and then execute them).
The copy I purchased was an NTSC VHS version. The quality, as VHS tapes go was excellent. The DVD version does have English subtitles.
Personally I did not care for this movie at all but as a Charlotte Gainsbourg fan it was a must have for my collection.
"Merci La Vie is an extraordinary journey of discovery, set in both the present and the past, by two young girls, desperate to explore life and, more importantly, get an understanding of its effect on them. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Anouk Grinberg are excellent as they search for new experiences and explanations for their current circumstances, which carry them back and forth between present day France and the war time occupation. They are supported by the outstanding Gerard Depardieu, playing a crooked and amoral doctor."
"Bertrand Blier, writer and director of the acclaimed "Trop Belle Pour Toi", has created an incredibly imaginative and daring film using startling color and a fantastic range of music, including Philip Glass, Beethoven, David Byrne, Chopin, and Vivaldi."
This movie is entirely in French (no subtitles). This is a very rare and hard to find Charlotte Gainsbourg movie. The movie would probably get an R rating for violence, adult themes and brief nudity (by Anouk Grinberg and a scene where the Germans have packed train loads of nude people into box cars and then execute them).
The copy I purchased was an NTSC VHS version. The quality, as VHS tapes go was excellent. The DVD version does have English subtitles.
Personally I did not care for this movie at all but as a Charlotte Gainsbourg fan it was a must have for my collection.
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