Description: The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty (Laurent Lucas), a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte (Charlotte Gainsbourg); and middle-aged Ándre (Richard Pollock), Alain`s boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice (Charlotte Rampling). The encounter does not leave the young couple`s harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent`s corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does nothing to help and portends the bursting of irrationality into a hitherto orderly life.
LEMMING was a selection in the Cannes Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival, 2005.
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Rating: - We need a stronger key motivator, I think, but at least we learn about lemmings
Lemming starts promisingly with the dinner party from hell. A young, much in love couple is preparing dinner for their guests, his boss and the boss' wife. Alain Getty (Laurent Lucas) is the newly hired home automation designer at The Pollack Company. He's smart, decent and good-looking. His wife, Benedicte, is alert, pretty and bright. She cooks. He tastes. They smooch. Then their guests show up. His boss, Richard Pollack (Andre Dussollier), is older, gracious and friendly. Alice Pollack (Charlotte Rampling), grim and puffy-eyed, is something else, from the sunglasses she wears at table to the glass of wine she throws in her husband's face. In between, the young couple hears her accusations of his infidelity. She trains her venom on the young wife as she leaves. On top of all this, the kitchen sink's drain is stopped up with what we later find is a lemming.
Rating: - The Furry One
You know that there is going to be trouble when Charlotte Rampling as Alice, wife of Andre (Richard Pollock) walks...no dangerously slides into the home of Alain Getty (Laurent Lucas) and his wife Bénédicte (Charlotte Gainsbourg): dark sunglasses perched on her patrician nose, hands in her pocket, mouth in a snarl and nose literally up in the air. Though she doesn't say it, you know she is thinking: "So this is how the other half lives. Huh?"
Andre is Alain's boss so both he and Bénédicte are on their best behavior but Alice doesn't adhere to the niceties of social behavior as she (Charlotte Rampling), whose sparing but provocative venting cuts the evening short as before long she hurls a glass of red wine into Andre's face: so much for a quiet, serene dinner between work friends.
That night, Alain extracts from his sink pipe a lemming (to which the title refers and which is indigenous to Scandinavia); ... Read More
Rating: - Subtitles always present
This DVD from Strand Releasing comes with the English subtitles always present. If you are able or want to try to follow the original French without the subtitles, they are ever-present and difficult to ignore. Except for that, the DVD is well produced, and the format is wide screen.
Rating: - Well Done Psychological Thriller
Just as a lemming inexplicably wedges itself into a young French couple's plumbing system - so a woman's hatred and bitterness insinuates itself into this couple's lives, into their psyches.
I wouldn't say this movie goes so far as to have a David Lynch quality, as the DVD jacket touts. The unfolding here is much more realistic, less surrealistic than Lynch. But there is a preternatural element at work in the dynamics between the main characters.
This is an adult movie - adult in the sense that the director allows time and space and the unsaid to create the tension. It's not just one onslaught of weirdness after another, like you find in a lot of would-be thrillers. The suspense is this movie is intrinsic.
Charlotte Rampling is fascinating, as ever. She and all the actors have that sterling ability to concentrate. It's this quality that raises acting into a true art.
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