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Not Here To Be Loved [2007] [DVD]

Georges Wilson , Patrick Chesnais , Stephane Brize    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
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  • Actors: Georges Wilson, Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny
  • Directors: Stephane Brize
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Oct 2007
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000V8WCWK
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 35,019 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Enormously charming and affecting, Not Here To Be Loved tells the story of world weary Jean-Claude (Patrick Chesnais) who, tired of his thankless job as a bailiff, decides on a whim to shake himself out of his rut by enrolling for tango lessons. There he meets Françoise (Anne Consigny), who is learning to dance in preparation for her impending wedding. Recognising in each other a mutual longing for something more from life, Jean-Claude and Françoise put aside their natural reserve and a tentative friendship develops that may just turn their lives upside down. Played with great depth and subtlety by Chesnais and Consigny, Stephane Brizé s film is a tender and beautifully observed study of two people who have who have never quite learned to love or be loved.

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: A weary "hussier de justice" whose job it is to deliver the paperwork preceding eviction and seizure of property forges a warm but tenuous relationship with a doubtful bride-to-be in director Stephane Brize's melancholy slice of life drama. Jean-Claude is a dreary soul who inherited the thankless family business from his prickly, widowed father. Every Sunday the devoted son dutifully visits his elderly father in the nearby rest home, where the old man passes his time by heckling his put upon caretakers, and one day Jean-Claude notices a dance studio directly across from his drab office. Hoping that a tango lesson will provide the required jolt needed to shake him free of his midlife funk, the depressive Jean-Claude enrolls in a class only to find that one of his fellow students is a young woman for whom his mother once babysat. The bride-to-be of a teacher who has taken time out of the classroom to finish his ambitious first novel, the young woman is taking tango lessons in order to be properly prepared for her impending wedding. As a friendly bond develops between the pair over the course of the lessons, it soon becomes obvious that both are missing a crucial element of happiness in their lives. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Ceasar Awards, European Film Awards, San Sebastian International Film Festival, ...Not Here to Be Loved ( Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé )

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Love Story 10 Nov 2007
By DL Productions UK VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
Patrick Chesnais plays Jean-Claude, a bailif who's in his mid 50s. He's got an annoying father that complains about everything, and nothing else much. He goes around town warning people they haven't got long to pay for their rent - and goes back to the office to fill out endless paperwork.

His mind is fixated on the tango school next door, and dreams of dancing the tango with women. So one day he goes there, and he finds a friend from the days he used to baby sit. Francoise (Anne Consigny - 36 (the film, not her age)) has got marriage plans with her new fiancé, but she's confused and starts having a crush on Jean-Claude.

The film follows their ups and downs, well mainly Jean-Claude's - and how he teaches his aprentice to go and grow flowers instead of doing the mundane job of working for the bailif's office.

This film is beautiful, the dancing is well captured and you get the feeling of intimacy that you'd feel while doing the tango with a beautiful young woman. The camera angles are subline and it's just stylishly done, like a lot of French movies, it's got such passion and psychology, and lets you make up your own mind about things. Both the lead roles are performed flawlessly, and the scenerio is borderline fantasy with moments of realism. The music is great, mainly tango, but works well with the other parts of the film.

Definately worth renting, as the extras are not much cop, two interviews, a trailer and their filmographies - but that's all you really need. Artificial Eye have done a good job of the transfer, it's colours are great and the audio is well balanced, though they could have done with putting more dynamics at times. A louder speech track would have been better, but I did watch this in Dolby 2.0 rather than the 5.1.

Well worth watching if you like indie films.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Tango Loving Bailiff 24 Mar 2008
By L. Davidson VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
"Not Here To Be Loved" is an engaging love story about a lonely, sad looking 50 year old man,Jean Claude,who meets a much younger woman,Francoise,at tango lessons.Jean Claude is a bailiff by profession and his dreams of a romantic friendship are hampered by Francoise's engagement to a writer.Will he find happiness with her or will he be condemned to continued isolation broken only by weekend visits to his ungrateful, grumpy father in his nursing home ? This French film is well acted and it's characters are well rounded and easy to empathise with."Not Here To Be Loved" is gently paced and it is a likeable film.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The French do rom-com differently. 15 Feb 2011
Format:DVD
Jean-Claude (Patrick Chesnais) is a sad, grey man, unhappy in his work and unhappy in love. (He's divorced.) He shares his office with his son who desperately wants to leave the business but instead retreats to a home packed with plants. His PA confesses that she has so messed up her life that all she has is her dog.

Ordered by his doctor to take up a physical activity, Jean-Claude joins a tango class where he falls for Francoise (Anne Consigny). Francoise falls for him, too, despite her impending marriage to her loser would-be author boyfriend (Lionel Abelanski).

Jean-Claude and Francoise seem to be on a tentative path to some kind of happiness when Jean-Claude learns that Francoise is engaged. Shocked and hurt, he retreats deeper into his shell. Then the death of his father (Georges Wilson) - a pathetic old man whose inability to express love for anyone has left him isolated and bitter - forces Jean-Claude to confront the emptiness of his own life. He returns to the tango class, takes Francoise in his arms and dances with her.

That's it. Yet this tale of misery and emptiness is one of the most feel-good movies I've seen in a long while. 'Here,' it says, 'your life can be sad and empty but you can change it by allowing the possibility of the redemptive quality of love.' There's no sex, no grand passion - all that is offered is that two people might dance together. And that's enough.

And it's funny. Laugh out loud funny. Like the moment when Jean-Claude plucks up the courage to buy Francoise a perfume and spends ages with a sales assistant choosing the right one, only to be told that his choice is called 'Intense Passion.' 'Would you have the same scent but with a different name?' he asks.

It is a film in which the quality of the silences and the tiniest changes of expression say more than a thousand lines. The most important moments have no dialogue and, when people do speak, they use words banally to hide their feelings. Sat in his car in the pouring rain, Jean-Claude and Francoise move toward their first (and only) kiss via a conversation about the relative merits of French and foreign cars. Patrick Chesnais's brooding, craggy gloom and Anne Consigny's extraordinarily mobile face with its bewitching half-smile are ideally suited to this sort of thing and the other characters, too, are well cast, finding something to humanise even the most unsympathetic of them.

Given the importance of tango to the film, it is a shame that the only professional tango shown is, at best, mediocre. Perhaps that's deliberate because it is the technically inept but passionately committed tangos of the students in the tango class that best capture the soul of the dance. Still, it's unfortunate that when the school make a trip to the theatre to see a performance, it is quite so poor.

Overall, though, this is French cinema at its best: thoughtful and intelligent but unpretentious and, in the end, joyous. The sub-titling is good enough to carry the dialogue (though a smattering of French will make it more fun). This is definitely a film worth braving the foreign-language movie ghetto for.
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