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East West [DVD] [1999]

DVD ~ Sandrine Bonnaire
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Tania Massalitinova, Bogdan Stupka, Ruben Tupiero, Oleg Menshikov
  • Directors: Regis Wargnier
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Palisades Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Mar 2003
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000083EGP
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64,439 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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East West is, fortunately, more than the colour-by-numbers melodrama that the packaging makes it seem. On the cover, a pair of haunted eyes gaze into the middle distance above a superb example of that absurd movie poster copywriting that reads much the same wherever you put the nouns: "In a land without freedom, escape was her only hope", which is hardly more meaningful than, say, "In a land without hope, freedom was her only escape". East West deserves better.

A French-Russian production, the film tells the story of a Russian doctor, his French wife and their child. In 1946 they accept Stalin's invitation to exiled Russians to return to the motherland and help rebuild the country; swiftly they discover that the reality doesn't quite match the advertising. The film follows the stresses the situation places on the central couple's marriage and focuses on the wife's dreams of escape, which revolve around an intervention by a grand dame of French theatre (played, appropriately, by Catherine Deneuve). East West suffers slightly from several disorientating lurches forward in time, but is otherwise a superior thriller and a convincing period piece.

On the DVD: East West offers two different trailers, filmographies of the stars and director and scene selection. The film is in French with English subtitles. –-Andrew Muller

Special Features
Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
French
Region 0
Dolby Digital French
Dolby Digital
Optional Subtitles
Scene Selection
Star And Director Filmographies
Original Theatrical Trailer
World Cinema Trailer Reel
English


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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Do not miss this movie! Excellent, 21 Feb 2003
East West is a wonderful movie, painting the reality of the Staline regime asking for the expatriates to come back in their "motherland". Oleg Menchikov (seen in the Barber of Siberia) is once again deeply moving of realism. He fights against the party to free his family from the regime. This movie describes the tragic story of million of Russians, who believed in the party and who were forced to follow it against their will. The French actresses Catherine Deneuve and Sandrine Bonnaire are once again excellent in this movie. The latter describes dramatically well the reality of a foreigner in USSR after WWII.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good portrayal of the Soviet Paradise, 8 Jul 2006
By katyn1940 (London) - See all my reviews
While the Germans have taken on their past with the likes of Downfall, Das Boot and Stalingrad, the Russians have not. So, here is a French film instead. East West is very good and will strike a cord with anyone familiar with the Soviet Paradise myth.

While Deneuve is prominant on the cover, she appears late in the film and her role is really a beefy cameo. However, she does put some work into her performance and you can't say that about a lot of her recent films. Of the films she made in the Nineties that got distributed in Britain, she is as good here as in Indochine and Ma Saison Prefere and better than Place Vendome and Les Voleurs.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Strong cast but lacks emotional engagement, 12 Dec 2003
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Like most people, I cam to Regis Wagnier through the marvellous Indochine, and hoped that this film would be anorther such tour de force.

Though well shot and well cast, the film fails to fully engage the viewer emotionally. There are too many questioh marks over the motivation of characters (why do they leave France for the Soviet Union? Why does she keep having public outbursts which risk her whole family being shot?!) to enable you to truly feel for their situation. Yes some films play on an emotional ambiguity, but for such a film to work you have to empathise profoundly with their situation. Here, you are made to feel that they probably brought it on themselves.

Still, the cast is strong, and the subject matter historically engaging, though maybe would have made for a better documentary.

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