Twice Upon a Time ( D�saccord parfait )

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Actors: Charles Dance, Charlotte Rampling, Ian Richardson, Isabelle Nanty, James Thi�rr�e
Directors: Antoine de Caunes
Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Studio: Gaumont
Run Time: 88 minutes

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B001L26ONI
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44,183 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Short Film, SYNOPSIS: Alice d'Abanville, an immensely famous London stage actress, and Louis Ruinard, a cult French film director, are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this legendary pair haven't seen each other in thirty years. In fact, they've done all they can not to see each other since their abrupt, incomprehensible separation. Alice doesn't want to see Louis again. Louis is captivated by her all over again. What do you do with the great love of your life thirty years later when you no longer have anything in common? SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Ceasar Awards,

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3.0 out of 5 stars Perfectly pleasant, perfectly forgettable, 19 Nov 2009

By	Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Desaccord Parfait aka Twice Upon a Time/Remake is a perfectly pleasant, perfectly forgettable star vehicle that's all sit, not much com. The sit is that back in the 70s director Jean Rochefort and his muse Charlotte Rampling were once French cinema's golden couple. Now she's retreated to the British stage and marriage to a Lord and he's now directing downmarket comedies and is scouting locations in London, where he's lined up to accept a Lifetime Achievement BATA (I guess BAFTA couldn't give an F for the film) and some bright spark has come up with the idea of getting her to present it. Cue the inevitable rekindled sparks of hatred and affection, but not many laughs, the film aiming at easy targets like gay aristocrats, brash nouveau riche, flatulent dogs, smartarse butlers and Francophobic Brits (though ironically a cameoing Charles Dance's Francophobic awards speech is the funniest thing in the film) with a poor hit rate. Instead, the film seems so pleased at its casting coup that it seems to think just having them onscreen together is enough to carry the film. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Rochefort does his best with thin material while Rampling, still letting her puppies out of the kennel at 60, is absolutely terrible whenever she has to act in English yet suddenly becomes a more assured actress the moment she starts talking French again. Some of the other accents slip - Swiss-born James Thierree's English is excellent as her uppercrust son but occasionally slips into a distinctly French rhythm of delivery - while Dance aside the supporting cast can't make much of their stereotyped roles, though poor old Ian Richardson, visibly ailing in one of his last roles, does his best with what he's given. Antoine de Caunes' direction only really lapses into EuroTrash vulgarity with the film's would-be major comic setpiece, a dinner party from Hell in a peanut millionaire's hideously decorated mansion with guests including a plastic surgeon that is never outrageous enough to disguise the fact that its just not funny, but there's more imagination in the stylish photo montage title sequence. Still, if you find the idea of Rampling constantly being mistaken for Mary Poppins by people too rich to contradict or ever wanted to see Rochfort imitate King Kong at a dinner party, this is your film.

While the French PAL DVD boasts a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer with English subtitles, the extras - deleted scenes, interview with de Caunes, spoof documentary Le Bulldog Anglais, an unedited version of Boyb George's number and trailer - are all unsubtitled.

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