- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Mar 19, 2004
- Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Grégori Derangère, Isabelle Adjani, Virginie Ledoyen
- Summary: A sophisticated farce set at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux at the start of World War II.
- Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 30
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Mixed: 9 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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100The story is engrossing, full of thrills and humor, the period re-creation wondrous and the pace intoxicatingly brisk. And the actors are all so good and their parts so well-written that we're engaged emotionally as well.
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91Works best of all as an epic. It wonderfully creates a world of fractured deco elegance and endless human duplicity in which everyone is on the run -- exactly the kind of incisive, seemingly effortless historical spectacle that the French have learned to do so much better than Hollywood.
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60The stately pacing and meandering plot often reduce this potential classic to generous eye candy.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11