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Gazon Maudit [VHS] [1996]

VHS ~ Victoria Abril
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado, Catherine Hiegel
  • Directors: Josiane Balasko
  • Writers: Josiane Balasko, Telsche Boorman, Patrick Aubrée
  • Producers: Claude Berri, Pierre Grunstein
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen, Import
  • Language French
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • VHS Release Date: 23 Sep 1996
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CSUR
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,949 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #11 in  Video > World Cinema > French > Comedy
    #19 in  Video > World Cinema > Gay & Lesbian

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Amazon.co.uk Review
The very French plot device of ménage-à-trois is given a thoroughly modern update here as beautiful repressed housewife Loli (Victoria Abril, she of several Pedro Almodóvar films) falls in love with a butch, cigar-chomping visitor named Marijo (director Josiane Balasko), much to the distress of Loli's macho, philandering husband (Alain Chabat). Hubby nonetheless comes to accept the situation (how very civilised), even if it means a certain amount of negotiating over his conjugal rights. Balasko keeps the farce bubbling under nicely until events erupt to a nice boil by the climax. --Leslie Felperin

Synopsis
When Loli begins to get fed up with her husband's philandering, she moves in a butch, cigar smoking lesbian... French dialogue with subtitles.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A bright, witty and observant comedy, 23 Jan 2001
Loli, played by Victoria Abril, has given up a promising career as a dancer to become the wife of a womanising estate agent; and though she knows of one woman he has had an affair with and has forgiven him, she knows nothing about any of the others - not even her own baby-sitter! No. Her main complaint against him is not his promiscuity but that he takes her for granted and shows her little affection. So, when a butch lesbian, played by Josiane Balasko, appears on the scene, stopping at the house to ask for water for her van¹s radiator, she is a ripe fruit waiting to be picked. And this kind, mature, worldly-wise lesbian is an expert in the art of seduction.

On an evening out together, the husband, played by Alain Chabat, already annoyed at the lesbian¹s intrusion into his home with his wife¹s encouragement, is driven into a blind fury when he discovers, on bending down to retrieve a cigarette from under the table, the lesbian¹s hand half way up his wife¹s thigh, and then sees them dancing together very intimately. From this follow many scenes of shouting and screaming, jealousy and rage. You feel for the husband¹s usurpation and his humiliation at being rejected for a lesbian - though you rejoice at his come-uppance - and you feel for the wife who deserves the affection she has been so long denied, and you feel for the lesbian with a loving heart who wants only to make the wife happy - though others may condemn her for destroying a relatively happy marriage. .. But despite all the passion and jealousy, this is a light comedy and not a heavy drama, and you have the feeling all along that everything will work out well in the end....The moral of the story, ...is that the only things that matter are love, tenderness and affection and if we get those the source¹s sexual gender is immaterial; we are all bisexual.

This is a bright, witty and observant comedy, well-acted, particularly by Victoria Abril, and constantly entertaining.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It's good - don't be put off by the subtitles!, 14 Nov 2003
By K (Paris) - See all my reviews
This film is a good bet for that vaguely cultural smug feeling that comes from watching a film with subtitles, whilst not being in that headache-inducingly lofty stratosphere of intellectualism inhabited by certain other French films (naming no names...) In other words, it's good fun. If you can suspend your disbelief in the rather tenuous plotline, it is charming and whimsical in the best French tradition (for any fans of French comedy - it's got the same slightly loopy feel to it as 'Amelie' or 'La vie en rose') I wouldn't go so far as to call it the lesbian 'Amelie' - for a start, neither of the female protagonists are as fit as Audrey Tatou! - but it does have a certain "je ne sais quoi"...
The director, Josiane Balasko, plays one of the three central characters (yes, this is your classic French menage à trois set-up...) and is very good.
Highly recommended.
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