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- 2007
- Not Rated
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 50 m
- 2007
- Not Rated
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 50 m
Summary The latest work from France's master of suspense, Comedy of Power probes France's unspoken laws of class and power as an unstoppable woman embarks upon a trail to uncover a vast web of deceit and treachery. (IFC)
Directed By: Claude Chabrol
Written By: Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol
- 2007
- Not Rated
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 50 m
- 2007
- Not Rated
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 50 m
Comedy of Power
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Summary The latest work from France's master of suspense, Comedy of Power probes France's unspoken laws of class and power as an unstoppable woman embarks upon a trail to uncover a vast web of deceit and treachery. (IFC)
Directed By: Claude Chabrol
Written By: Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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8 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
64
62% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It's not often that you see the craft of cinema so perfectly executed--or a group of fancy scoundrels so ruthlessly caught and skewered. Comedy of Power, like all of Chabrol's Hitchcockian films, is dark, smart and delicious.
In many ways a meandering film, a collection of good scenes.
One of Claude Chabrol's most satisfyingly astringent films in years.
Title notwithstanding, there's nothing particularly funny about this political drama from the tireless Claude Chabrol.
An enjoyable but curiously weightless trifle that lowers rather than raises the temperature of the affair. Comedy of Power has to be the most polite, untroubled conspiracy film since the genre first tapped a phone.
Chabrol has fashioned a mystery that caves in on itself, but unfortunately, it caves in on the audience, too.
The movie is too parochial for a wide audience. The French judicial system is totally alien to Americans, for instance, plus the film is a talkathon.
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Production Company
Alicéléo,
France 2 Cinéma,
A.J.O.Z. Films,
Integral Film,
Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep),
Angoa-Agicoa,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA),
Canal+,
CinéCinéma
Release Date Jan 5, 2007
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Awards
Lumiere Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Gran Premio Internazionale del Doppiaggio
• 2 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
