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Full Moon In Paris [1984] [DVD]

DVD ~ Pascale Ogier

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Actors: Pascale Ogier, Tch�ky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Th�venet, Christian Vadim
Directors: Eric Rohmer
Writers: Eric Rohmer
Producers: Margaret M�n�goz
Format: PAL
Language French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Arrow Films
DVD Release Date: 22 Mar 2004
Run Time: 97 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B0001GNJII
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50,495 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Full Moon in Paris, the fourth of Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs, is also the most ironic and, in many ways, the most judgmental of his films. Louise (Pascale Ogier), a restless designer bored with sleepy suburban life outside of Paris, lives with her lover, Remy (Tcheky Karyo), a stable architect happy with a calm home life and a long-term relationship. The independent Louise decides to move back into her old Paris apartment during the week, losing herself in the bustle of dinner parties and nightclubs and single men, while spending her weekends back with Remy. Louise becomes briefly entangled with another man, a spontaneous musician who is the opposite of Remy, but in a neat twist on the formula, Remy himself drifts to another--at the suggestion of Louise herself.

Willowy Ogier's kittenish sexuality and zest for life are wrapped in a self-absorbed determination that borders on indifference, but for the most part this is another wryly witty look at modern love from the master of the sophisticated romantic comedy. Fabrice Luchini plays Louise's best friend and conniving confidante, Octave, and Laszlo Szabo appears as a café patron who pontificates on the magical effects of the full moon. Ogier, who died shortly after the film's release, designed many of the handsome sets. Rohmer followed this with perhaps his most generous character study, the modestly magical romantic adventure Summer. --Sean Axmaker

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In Eric Rohmer's A FULL MOON IN PARIS, Louise (Pascale Ogier) is a tiny woman with the weepiest eyes and the most voluminous 1980s hairstyle that has ever hit the French big screen. She is bored of her reliable relationship with her faithful, disciplined boyfriend, Remi (Tcheky Karyo), but she's not sure that she's ready to leave him. She moves her belongings out of their shared apartment in the suburbs and moves into an adorable studio apartment in the heart of Paris. Louise tells Remi that she will spend the weekdays in her little apartment, simply so that she can have some time to herself. In reality, however, she wants to go out and party. Constantly pursued by her horny, married friend, Octave (Fabrice Luchini), Louise prefers to go to parties where she dirty dances with a lanky greaser named Bastien (Christian Vadim). Eventually Louise realises that she simply cannot have her cake and eat it too. That is when Rohmer's classic style kicks in and the film changes over into long existential conversations, harrowing expressions of loneliness, and heartbreaking sincerity. A FULL MOON IN PARIS is one of five films in Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series, and is based on the proverb, "He who has two women loses his spirit. He who has two houses loses his mind."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great film, terrible tragedy, 3 Jul 2005

By	Andy Millward (Broxbourne, Herts, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Like most Rohmer films, this is an artfully constructed and beautifully played drama of social mores, manners and morals - with an edge. I watched it with great interest, but only later realised that the heroine at the centre of these dilemmas, Pascale Ogier, died shortly afterwards of a heart attack on the eve of her 28th birthday in 1984. What a tragedy!

I watched the film again, seeing her magnificent and award-winning performance in a new light. Art and life seem so closely intertwined that I could picture the reactions of Eric Rohmer's finely honed characters if Louise in the film had suddenly died. It's a great credit to Rohmer that his creations lead a parallel existence but entirely true to life.

For all the slightly theatrical dialogue-centred approach, Full Moon in Paris could almost be a fly-on-the-wall documentary where people speak their minds or hide their feelings credibly but betray their often raw emotions in a subtle variety of details. Emotions are the key to Rohmer - sometimes suppressed, often charged, frequently confused. They run deep through scenes that might otherwise seem superficial and even trite. Characters talk about their everyday issues, but their eyes and body language betray their true feelings. This is great cinema from a master of the art, on a par with Fellini, Truffault and Godard. His only sin was to go about it quietly and not sing his own praises!

As for Louise, she has to decide between the staid Remi and an exciting new future in Paris. She wants to have both but ultimately it proves impossible to have her cake and eat it. For Ogier, I can only think of what might have been. Her sparkling future was cruelly denied.

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