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ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI'S L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love) is the story of a hideously bloody vendetta, of bonds of friendship between two men from opposite backgrounds and of love within an eternal triangle. Intended as homage to Dostoyevsky and loosely based on his novel 'The Idiot', L'Amour Braque is a mad love-triangle: Léon (The Prince Of Idiots), Marie (The Virgin Whore), and Mickey (The Immoral Gangster). Zulawski's postmodern existentialist adaptation is presented with an intense sense of visual style suggestive of the hyper-realistic and chaotic world of Bande-Dessinée. Abundant with images that persist and last in memory, from start to finish the screen is filled with outbursts of energy and eruptions of emotional violence where "notions of 'performance as madness' are choreographed into a perverse, bloody ballet." L'Amour Braque displays craftwork of originality and imagination in which "moments of brilliance happen under the watchful eye of a knowing master."
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Ian Farrell
Format:DVD
I watched in horror last night as a collection of unfortunate actors were dragged through a pitiable script with some of the worst directing I have seen from a film on general release.
The choice of music was hard to endure and had nothing whatever to do with the film and was lifted wholesale from old 1950s Pathe News background soundtracks (that's probably being unfair to Pathe).
I have most of Colin Firth's work on DVD and he has never failed to impress (I bought the film to add to my CF collection). I have to believe this film was a contractual commitment that he couldn't escape from, he must be so embarrassed. Do not buy this film, it is truly appalling.
Mr Mike Binder, hang your head in shame. Never heard of you before, never will again, please leave the film industry immediately.
The choice of music was hard to endure and had nothing whatever to do with the film and was lifted wholesale from old 1950s Pathe News background soundtracks (that's probably being unfair to Pathe).
I have most of Colin Firth's work on DVD and he has never failed to impress (I bought the film to add to my CF collection). I have to believe this film was a contractual commitment that he couldn't escape from, he must be so embarrassed. Do not buy this film, it is truly appalling.
Mr Mike Binder, hang your head in shame. Never heard of you before, never will again, please leave the film industry immediately.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Carol
Format:DVD
This was an extremely disappointing movie. It is nothing like 4 Weddings or Notting Hill. These were both well written comedies, and this was not well written or remotely funny. Only resemblence is they were set in London! I like Colin Firth, but even he was not on top form.
Don't want to say too much about the plot in case you do watch it though.....
Perhaps I should read other reviews in future and not go with what the film producer has said about his film...
Don't want to say too much about the plot in case you do watch it though.....
Perhaps I should read other reviews in future and not go with what the film producer has said about his film...
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By pmax.music
Format:DVD
This film was disappointing... on both the technical and artistic sides
technically, this is a 4:3 TV movie convertion with pretty poor image quality. absolutely no subtitles, not even hearing impaired or close captionning. for foreigners, this might be a no-no.
artistically, I won't judge the film, but I have strong objections to the "catch phrase" on the DVD cover: this film has no relation to the films mentionned, apart from the action being set in London.
Colin firth fans will appreciate this, but comedy buyers should stick to bigger productions.
One last thing: Stephen Fry makes a very funny, but very short cameo (couple minutes onscreen tops), he is not really among the cast ofg the film...
technically, this is a 4:3 TV movie convertion with pretty poor image quality. absolutely no subtitles, not even hearing impaired or close captionning. for foreigners, this might be a no-no.
artistically, I won't judge the film, but I have strong objections to the "catch phrase" on the DVD cover: this film has no relation to the films mentionned, apart from the action being set in London.
Colin firth fans will appreciate this, but comedy buyers should stick to bigger productions.
One last thing: Stephen Fry makes a very funny, but very short cameo (couple minutes onscreen tops), he is not really among the cast ofg the film...
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Eeuw!
Terrible, terrible, terrible! I am such a lover of Colin Firth and wanted to watch all of his films, but this was just awful! Read more
Published 22 days ago by Amazonian Al
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious
Gambled and bought it as a wedding anniversary occasion. I'm pleased I did. Colin Firth, Jack Dee and others were enough to enable the ethics of wife swapping to be ignored.
Published 9 months ago by R. Hart
1.0 out of 5 stars
AWFUL
I bought this as I like Colin Firth and Stephen Fry and assumed it would be great-how wrong I was. Slow to start-middle-end. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2011 by Gill
1.0 out of 5 stars
A waste of Colin Firth's abilities; only worth 0 stars
Do not touch with a barge pole, save your moeny, it's a waste of Colin Firth's abilities. Stephen Fry & Jack Dee have tiny cameo parts, not leads like the packaging would have you... Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2009 by Firthophile
1.0 out of 5 stars
This sucks; truly, deeply awful (worth 0 stars)
Do not touch with a barge pole, save your moeny, it's a waste of Colin Firth's abilities. Stephen Fry & Jack Dee have tiny cameo parts, not leads like the packaging would have you... Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2009 by Firthophile
1.0 out of 5 stars
Quite hopeless
Given the cast, this should have been watchable. It wasn't and I'm sure none of the big names put this on their cv. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2008 by Alan P. Chadwick
1.0 out of 5 stars
Dull.
It was dull. It dragged. You thought it was nearly over then a whole lot more appeared. One star can be fully awarded for the miraculous appearance of Jack Dee, who (occasionally)... Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2008 by H. Proudfoot
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Very London Romance and a Great Night In
This film is in the best spirit of Richard Curtis' London rom-coms and features a stellar cast including Colin Firth and Stephen Fry. Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2007 by Richard Thompson
1.0 out of 5 stars
Richard Curtiss has nothing to fear!
If you like Colin Firth and enjoy nothing better than to cuddle up on the sofa with your loved one and watch a good RomCom, then give this a wide birth as it will ruin your... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2007 by Neil Russell-Bates
2.0 out of 5 stars
Two Weddings and One and a Half Hours of Boredom
I have to agree with the other reviews of this movie. It wasn't very funny, I laughed maybe once. The plot and storyline was disjointed at best. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2007 by Julia M. Ammon
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