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  • Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani, Richard Bohringer, Paul Guers
  • Directors: Patrice Leconte
  • Writers: Patrice Leconte, Patrick Modiano
  • Producers: Monique Guerrier, Thierry de Ganay
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Mar 2005
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006ZLD3C
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,912 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Following his participation in the Algerian War, Victor is placed in exile on Lake Geneva. While there, he meets and falls in love with Yvonne, but his past remains a mystery to her...

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63 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A visual spectacle, 9 Aug 2005
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Director Patrice Leconte used to illustrate comics and draw cartoon strips; he brings to his filmmaking an ability to subtly tease reality into fantasy, to take naturalistic settings and situations and transform them by creating an intoxicating atmosphere in which their ridiculous, sensuous, or enigmatic dimensions come to the fore. It is typical Leconte, therefore, that he should make a film about something as visually elusive and ephemeral as scent. The film is not, of course, about perfume ... but.

Based on a novel by Patrick Modiano ('Villa Triste'), "Le Parfum D'Yvonne" describes a summer affair between Victor (Hippolyte Giradot) and Yvonne (Sandra Majani). It is 1958, France is embroiled in a civil war in Algeria, the fighting, terrorism and political turmoil spilling across the Mediterranean into Francophone Europe. Victor - who poses as an émigré Russian aristocrat - is hiding in Switzerland to avoid conscription into the French army. He idles away the summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, renting a room in an elegant little hotel, spending his days hanging around the lounge of a more illustrious one. His entire life seems to be contained in a trunk full of film magazines.

Into his life comes the beautiful Yvonne. Her roots are hardly aristocratic, though she poses as a sophisticated young woman, aping the style of an English debutante while dreaming of a life as a film actress. She and Victor begin an affair.

Their time together, however, is moderated, invigorated, and fuelled by the outrageously camp Dr. Meinthe (Jean-Pierre Marielle), a lotus-eater who seems to provide some illicit medical services for one of the many sides in the Algerian conflict. He idles his life in dining out and posing.

It is beautifully filmed. Leconte has an almost voyeuristic style, observing the life of his characters. He plays with the elegance and style of the situation and exploits its erotic potential to the full. The characters are fundamentally bored and boring, seeking excitement and escape from the ennui into which they have subsided. Leconte exposes bodies, but the characters remain shrouded. If Yvonne's fragrance is elusive and ephemeral, so too is the past ... and future ... of her lover.

This is a visually intoxicating film, and Sandra Majani is delightful to look at. You do, however, feel that it has less substance than a hint of perfume. Enigmatic, erotic, entertaining, absorbing, yet it is not amongst Leconte's best. It lacks something, some quality to make the fragile narrative gel and take substance. The subtlety of the perfume remains just too diluted.

The DVD offers no extras - no background or interviews with actors or director, but then Leconte does not appear to be renowned for his interest in interviews or providing extras. Given the distance in time, some sort of background on the Algerian conflict might help viewers, particularly in English-speaking countries (or non-French-speaking ones). But visual and sound quality are excellent and the film is a joy to watch.

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A rare misfire from Leconte, 1 Jul 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Le Parfum d'Yvonne is a rare misfire from Patrice Leconte that doesn't really work on any level. The main problem with this remembrance of love lost is the casting: Jean-Pierre Marielle is fine as the archetypal ageing queen and matchmaker-cum-chaperone, but neither Hippolyte Girardot or Sandra Majani bring much to the lovers, leaving us with fragments of a vague relationship between two people we don't care about. Not painful, but lacking purpose and capped off with an absurd ending that seems to be there simply to give the film an exclamation point.

Second Sight's PAL DVD features no extras but does offer the film in a good transfer in its original 2.35:1 widescreen ratio
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Cinematic Gem, 12 April 2003
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This review is from: Le Parfum D'Yvonne [VHS] [1994] (VHS Tape)
Le Parfum d'Yvonne is truly a lesson in how to make beautiful cinema - the photography and elegance of this film are stunning.
The film is about a playboy exile who lives on the shores of Lac Le Man who meets up with a beautiful starlet, Yvonne, a would-be film actress. It is this love story, co-joined with Yvonne's mysterious friend, the homesexual Dr. Meinthe that forms the film, told from a flashback device. The film exudes a dreaminess, beauty and a languourous way of life on the lake.

My only regret is that Patrice Leconte, the director and Sandra Majani, the co-star have not teamed up to make more of these delights.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A trivial and pretentious skinflick
That's all there is to it in my view I'm afraid. Admittedly Sandra Majani looks so beautiful it is tempting to credit the film with a profundity that would justify the eroticism... Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2007 by Geraldo

1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing
I regret that I found Le Parfum D'Yvonne to be nothing more than a pretentious skinflick. The plot line is trivial in the extreme providing the, admittedly beautiful, Sandra... Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2007 by Geraldo

5.0 out of 5 stars in the name of love...........
This is a movie of rare emmotional depth and extreme beauty.

I am delighted with this DVD release as I wore out my VHS copy some time back. Read more

Published on 13 Feb 2005 by boho

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