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And Now Ladies and Gentlemen

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Based on 25 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Claude Lelouch
Pierre Leroux
Pierre Uytterhoeven
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 1, 2003
DVD: January 13, 2004
Running Time: 126 minutes, Color
Origin: France / UK
Language(s): English / French (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for momentary language
Starring Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte, Alessandra Martines, Jean-Marie Bigard, Ticky Holgado, Yvan Attal, and Claudia Cardinale
A thief on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls who have become fugitives from the past -- but now, fate is about to bring them together in the unfolding present. (Paramount Classics)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The good news about Claude Lelouch's And Now Ladies and Gentlemen -- there's no bad news -- is that the man who made the sublimely superficial "A Man and a Woman" almost four decades ago has grown in wisdom and artistry, but hasn't lost his love of glossy surfaces.
LA Weekly Scott Foundas
For those of us who find Lelouch an unbreakable habit -- the guiltiest of guilty pleasures -- watching And Now Ladies & Gentlemen comes close to sheer moviegoing bliss.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
The perfect summer tonic for mature audiences looking for sophisticated escape. It's filled with beautiful people in gorgeous, exotic locales.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The core relationship is what makes the movie with this ill-advised title a well-advised choice.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Has a goofy enthusiasm for itself that's contagious.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
All told, its two-plus hours of trinkets and baubles and clever repartée beneath a perfect summer sun and beside the whitewashed walls of Fez, not inconsequential but as ephemeral as the sky above.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A movie best suited for a lazy afternoon or a languorous night, particularly if you're a Francophile. Charming, glamorous, emotionally suggestive but slight, it's full of beautiful and colorful people.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie is so extravagant and outrageous in its storytelling that it resists criticism: It's self-satirizing.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ray Conlogue
For those who don't know his (Lelouch's) work, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen will be fun because his style is unique and unpredictable. But for those who have known him in better form, this one is not a must-see.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
The cinematic equivalent of a beautifully wrapped gift box with nothing inside.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
According to common usage, the French word stupide comes closer to silly than to dumb, which is how I might rationalize my affection for this harebrained, obvious, but euphoric tale.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Though the director's jet-set fantasy world of rugged jewel thieves and sailboat races, triste cabaret singers and sybaritic pleasures may feel dated and more than a little decadent, it is a nice enough place to visit.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
A good-looking but slim confection that's short on the multi-characterisation and sense of entwined destinies that mark the great Lelouch sagas.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
The film isn't so much a demanding character study as it is a lot of pretty parts pushed together.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
It works for a little while, but an Irons-narrated slideshow of the region would have worked just as well.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The director has said that the plot was influenced by a real English thief named Valentin who showed up at his door one day to repay money stolen a decade earlier.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The tone moves from gently jocular (Irons appears in drag) to mystically morose (a female shaman tries to ululate up a cure), and that creates a jarring effect from which the movie does not recover.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
When characters aren't quoting Alfred de Musset, they're speaking in aphorisms of their own, and the dialogue is stylized and stilted. Happily, Kaas, one of France's most popular jazz singers, has a sensuous, sonorous voice, and Lelouch uses it as often as possible; in many ways, the film is a musical.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's too insubstantial to support its two-hour-plus running time, and too arbitrary to work as a story, so you walk out wondering not happened, but whether anything actually did.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Like a Bond picture with no spies or villains or car chases or gadgets or explosions.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
It's fitting. Valentin and Jane may be awakening from life's slumber, but mostly they're just putting us to sleep.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
One part cabaret, one part travelogue, one part comic heist, one part romantic tearjerker -- and all pretty tedious.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Has little to offer beyond muzzy kismet and generalized amnesia, a bit of National Geographic and a lot of cocktail jazz.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Awash in the kind of pretension that only the French can get away with.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
An exercise in vanity, indulgence and a startling degree of shallowness.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
jamil b. gave it a10:
Brilliant cinema from story to cast to post production ... a truly aesthetic and intellectual pleasure for a sophisticated audience ... worth several viewings, even after first view suspense.
ahmad s. gave it a10:
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... This Is The Best Movie Of The Year.
