With a Friend Like Harry... [Region 2] Dominik Moll Digital Life DVD

With a Friend Like Harry... [Region 2]
starring: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin, Liliane Rovère
directed by: Dominik Moll

Used Price: $22.00

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3357803052727
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: August 15, 2000

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It takes nearly an hour for anything unusual to happen in With a Friend Like Harry, but that first hour is oddly unsettling. German filmmaker Dominik Moll reveals the trouble with Harry (Sergi López) with low-key precision, his thriller sensibility channeled from Hitchcock through Claude Chabrol, while emphasizing casual conversation in the style of Eric Rohmer. Harry's found Michel (Laurent Lucas) in a public restroom, identifying himself as an old schoolmate who remembers far too much about Michel, even though Michel has no recollection of Harry at all. But Harry's an ingratiating type, and nice enough on the surface, so Michel invites Harry and his girlfriend, Plum (Sophie Guillemin), to the summer cottage he's renovating with his wife, Claire (Mathilde Seigner), and their three young daughters. The Spanish actor López (from An Affair of Love) modulates his performance so carefully that Harry's psychosis--never explained, but strangely compelling--reverberates well beyond the film's shocking conclusion. It turns out Harry's been a helpful friend after all, but that's cold comfort in a film that warns us against the kindness of strangers. --Jeff Shannon

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Excellent DVD !
Excellent French story about a murder !
The performance of every actor is suberb, in particular that of the Spanish guy Sergi Lopez(Harry, our friend). this story is not as usual about murders.This film has a special kind of quality in many aspects.
I want to mention as a remarkable fact, the song listened by Harry (the murder). This is "Ramona" sung by the Mexican Diva Dolores del Rio. It is strange but I love it ! This song is so ancient but I think it was a very good idea to include it as a part of the sound track. Congratulations !

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- Boundary problems . . .
Harry is one of those over-friendly people who seem to have no idea when they're getting too close to someone else - being too intimate, invading privacy, and taking inappropriate liberties. We get this about him from the start, as he makes his first move - in of all places a men's room - and the creepiness sets in long before we sense that he's more than a little obsessive, if not totally psychopathic.

Set in an isolated old farmhouse in the hilly, wooded French countryside, the story has misadventure written all over it, and viewers can gleefully let themselves sink into 2 hours of growing dread as Harry stealthily goes to town on the innocent family he adopts - all with a well-meaning smile on his face (not to mention the occasional odd quirk) and a sweet girlfriend by his side. As many others have already said here, it's a nicely done thriller that will keep you guessing and biting your nails to ... Read More

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- With a Friend Like Harry
An intelligent and unsettling domestic thriller, Moll's "Harry" turns a man's frustrated writerly ambitions and confused existence into grist for another's twisted--and ultimately homicidal--handiwork. The suspense hinges partly on how Harry's logic-warping speeches to Michel fuse the psychology of self-realization with psychotic rationalization. Quietly dispatching anything standing in the way of Michel's long-suppressed dreams, Lopez inhabits the role of sinister motivational expert with dark charisma. Wickedly entertaining, with a perversely humorous kick, "Harry" is a troubled house guest you won't mind entertaining.

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- fine, ambiguous thriller
With A Friend Like Harry is one of those exceptionally well done thrillers that demonstrates a certain artistic quality that so many poorly made, mass produced thriller movies lack. The convincing acting, the weird plot developments and the stress everyone seems to be under in this film make it a true thriller masterpiece.

The movie begins its creepy quality from almost the beginning of the film. Imagine! Michel (Laurent Lucas) is on a trip with his wife Claire (Mathilde Seigner) and their three daughters to their rundown summer cottage and just by pure coincidence (???) Michel meets someone he went to school with: Harry (Sergi López). In a matter of minutes the eager to please and modest Michel is already feeding into Harry's plans for him. Michel and his wife Claire let Harry and his girlfriend Plum accompany them to their summer home which they are renovating. Almost immediately you are stunned by ... Read More

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