Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9781572528239 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1572528230 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: April 25, 2000 Running Time: 100 minutes Sales Rank: 26603 Studio: Fox Lorber Theatrical Release Date: 1996
Description: Marie meets Benoit through a personal ad. On the day they marry, their best friend, Pierre, realizes that he is in love with Marie as well. What follows is a tragic, sometimes outlandish tale of two people who wreck the happiness of the other person most
Amazon.com: Marion Vernoux's romantic drama Love Etc. is based on a novel by Julian Barnes, but it echoes Truffaut's Jules and Jim (in spirit more than plot) in its examination of an impossible ménage à trois. Shy Yvan Attal and unlucky-in-love Charlotte Gainsbourg meet through a personal ad. Attal sent a picture of his handsome best friend, confident womanizer Charles Berling, but it matters little as they fall for each other's charm and sincerity. Inevitably, Berling joins the couple and the trio pals around until the marriage, when the outwardly confident but secretly lonely and desperate Berling realizes he too loves Gainsbourg and begins hounding her. Vernoux gets the best from her cast: Gainsbourg's awkward beauty and Attal's ruffled passivity create a sweetly believable couple, but there is room for lingering doubt. Berling has a lock on self-centered intellectuals in the French film industry, but here reveals a sad desperation and jealousy in his performance. Vernoux's light touch and playful asides suspend the film in a state of romantic comfort before the inevitable, sympathetic, but painful climax. What gives her modest tale character is the loving attention she gives each of the lovers and the generous, unexpected coda she rewards them--and us--with. --Sean Axmaker
Digital Life Reviews
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Tedium, etc.
A French adaptation of a Julian Barnes novel, this is a pretty basic and very tedious romantic triangle: when shy loser Yvan Attal hooks up with Charlotte Gainsbourg, his luck changes while his best friend Charles Berling's fortunes suffer reverses as he falls for her and bores passing strangers by telling them his hopes of how to win her. Unfortunately this seems to be by going for the Anakin Skywalker route of whining her into submission, as his tiresome self-pity gradually and inexplicably wins her over.
There are a few nice moments: a wedding photo in which all three reveal their innermost thoughts, one of Berling's captive confessors asking him "Don't you ever get tired of your bulls**t?" and Berling following his comparison of an affair being as unsatisfactory as a holiday in Marbella by his nervous rambling that "Actually, Marbella can be nice at this time of year. I went there once. It's best ... Read More
Rating: - A Love Triangle.
This is a very French and very charming love story, filmed as only the French seem to know how with remarkable subtlety and sensitivity. Benoit, played by Yvan Attal, a shy and introverted bank-clerk, advertises for a girl friend and has the remarkable good fortune to meet the modest and appealing Marie, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is Yvan Attal's partner in real life. She doesn't feel any instant attraction but likes him because he is nice and kind - though, as it turns out, also dull and unimaginative. He takes her to meet his best friend Pierre, played by Charles Berling, (seen playing a similar obsessive lover in L'Ennui) and for over a year the three of them go about everywhere together. Then she marries Benoit with Pierre acting as his best-man.
But throughout this time Pierre has been trying to stifle his love for Marie and failing miserably. Able to stand it no longer he declares his love ... Read More
Rating: - When betrayal feels right..
If you are deceived at the very 1st step, how would you feel? If the picture that comes as a reply for your ad belongs not to the sender but to a close friend of his, does it mean that you are deceived? How would you react when "that" close friend of your husband says he is in love with you? Are in you love with your husband or the man in "that" picture? If you do feel deceived at the 1st step, would you admit it & enjoy adultery?
Marie, Benoit & Pierre form this infernal triangle with touching humour. Freely based on Barnes' novel "Talking it Over", Vernoux depicts an unforgettable romantic comedy, sometimes reaching the shores of a heart-wrenching drama. The artistry of Vernoux, however, is the way of juxtaposing these three different persons (and their different paths in reaching love) where the major virtues (or flaws) of being human become the intersection points. Surprisingly enough, ... Read More
Digital
Life Shop
Marion Vernoux items subject to availability. Some restrictions
may apply. DVD
Love Etc. presented by digi2005.com Digi2005.com is
an Amazon.com
Associate
Digital Life Music News:
"Wrath" recording released - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Minnesota Opera's 2007 world-premiere production of "The Grapes of Wrath" is newly available as a live recording on the PS Classics label. Compiled from digital recordings of five of the Ordway Center performances in February 2007, the 3-CD set ...
more News
- Tedium, etc.
- A Love Triangle.
- When betrayal feels right..
