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My Girlfriend's Boyfriend [1987] [DVD]

DVD ~ Emmanuelle Chaulet
3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laurze Meurry, Eric Viellard
  • Directors: Kenneth Schapiro
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Arrow Films
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Oct 2003
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000CGD2X
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 67,265 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
In the 'banlieues' of Paris, Blanche, a young office worker, befriends Lea, who is seeing Fabien. Fabien is friends with Alexandre, who goes out with Adrienne, but who Blanche secretly loves. A tricky and sticky situation ensues.
A screwball comedy about a jealous gay man who seeks to thwart his friend's marriage to the man he loves. Filmed on location in Long Island New York.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars It's OK, I suppose, 25 Jan 2005
I once took my old banger in for its MOT. When I returned to the garage an hour later, I looked hopefully at the MOT man's face. He winced a little, saying "Well it's OK, I suppose...", before showing me a list of things that were depressingly likely to go wrong over the next 12 months. That wince, and his comment, came to mind when I got to the end of this subtitled French film from one of the country's most lauded directors.

Eric Rohmer, as a film director, is an acquired and incredibly personal taste. His films can delight ("Pauline at the Beach") or irritate ("Conte d'Ete") without apparent rhyme or reason.

This little tale _just_ errs on the side of delight, but it's all so understated, all the colours so blue and all the haircuts so eighties, that it tries the patience just a little at times. The story illustrates the proverb, "A friend of a friend is a friend", and shows a shy, retiring girl falling for her friend's boyfriend (hey, wasn't that a song by the Cars? Almost.) while the friend seems bored with her beau. Will loyalty to her friend prevent Miss Shy-and-Retiring from getting the guy, or will they split up in time to make way for Miss S-&-R? That's what Rohmer spends 90 minutes of his - and our - time exploring.

As with all his films, the plot is secondary to the people, the people are very human, and we really get to know them and what makes them tick. The characters are fairly likeable, unlike the setting - Rohmer seems to have deliberately, perversely, chosen a soulless Paris suburb in which to toy with his characters - but somehow his other films have been more involving. The slow development of the plot is perhaps just slightly mis-judged given the unsympathetic setting and so-so characters.

A refreshing change from Hollywood's two-dimensional take on human nature, and worth at least 20 Odeon Saturday-night blockbusters, but perhaps the merely curious should start elsewhere ("Pauline..." or "4 Adventures of Reinette & Mirabelle" spring to mind).

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars See the film, don't read the reviews, 8 Mar 2006
By A. C. S. Swinson "Tacitus" (Herefordshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Subtitled) [VHS] [1987] (VHS Tape)
Having just read the two reviews posted for this marvellous film, I can only assume that they must have reviewed a different film entirely.

Quite simply this is Rohmer at his marvellous best, and is absolutely a good starting point for any-one interested in starting to view his work. The grim soulless setting - not unusual for Rohmer - only serves to highlight the intensity of the emotions of the two key characters.

I defy any-one who has ever loved not to cry at the ending. There is one moment when our 'heroine' leaps up to wave at her friend, that captures what it is to feel happy and alive better than anything else in the history of cinema.

Enjoy !

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1.0 out of 5 stars 98 Minutes too long, 2 Sep 2005
One might imagine that the 98 minutes of this film were spent on the characters learning something about the relationship between friendship and love. In fact by the end of the film this bunch of intellectuals has discovered that it can be a bit upsetting for your friend if you sleep with his/her lover, but that can be mitigated by the friend going off with someone you used to fancy. So it's probably not about that.
It's really a film about feelings. 98 minutes of cardboard cutouts talking about their feelings. Feelings about themselves. Feelings about each other. Feelings that I did not believe a single one of the characters understood and which none of the actors was capable of expressing.
In the style of Woody Allen none of them have real jobs that they actually do, but in this film the announcement for example that Blanche is a bigwig in cultural affairs has no function. I simply could not believe that she was either a successful administrator or a person of any culture. Not even the other characters believed that one.
One plus point. Fans of such TV series of the seventies as The Sweeney may enjoy the grainy, over-exposed quality of the film from a sense of nostalgia.
I was a little puzzled about the film's 15 certificate. There is no violence. There is a little kissing, not all of it on cheeks, but that is all. Then I realised the censors wanted to reduce the proportion of the population that might otherwise be subjected to it.
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