Film Reviews by CSF

Because of the topic of the film, it ought to be more emotional than that. However, I did enjoy it. Didn't expect to see Annette Benning there. Again, I think the talent of these actors has not been exploited enough. At least the ending is not absurd or stupid like in most French films where the film just stop. I mean, it has an ending.

The film is exciting with clear cut characters, however I felt re-writing many scenes! As for the ending, I don't think I would spoil the film by saying, there is no ending, the film stops.

I expected a lot from this film and I found it like an empty shell. Lots of movements, efforts, so-called Philosophy, in fact... nothing. It has no point, no interest. Everybody pretends but nobody achieves.

How can I write 100 characters on a film I did not understand. I forced myself to watch 20 min, then got the awful impression to waste my time and got bored to tears. I would certainly avoid the films Cinema Paradiso advises me to watch by saying "more like The forbidden Room! How can they put The Lady in the Van in that list? What has it got to do with The Forbidden Room? It's just as appropriate as to compare with a Disney film!!

Of course the film dated, that's its charm. I watch it for the sake of Veronica Lake (poor girl, she had such a sad ending in real life!) Despite the violence the films of this period remain somehow naive and predictable. It was time for Hitchcock to turn up and change this type of films.

However I enjoyed it because it was an easy watch film and I always find it funny how women remain dressed as if going to a royal wedding whereas they are just lingering at home.

One must watch Veronica Lace in My Wife is a Witch, she is adorable.

The soldiers of the film are not the only one to have a long sleep, I had as well. I don't know what more I could say to make the 100 words. The story is like a never ending documentary on the fact that these soldiers have to sleep all the time and nobody knows why so they start to invent fairy tales to explain it: a classic.

A very weird film or shall I say, very original. I thought, to begin with, that it was a naive story with beautiful decor and costumes. Then little by little, very slowly you start to suspect a kind of rot under the silk and the flowers. I would have loved to see a sequel of that film!

I loved the film. I think it makes considerable effort to be fair. Both parties made mistakes, the problems to solve were so difficult that three centuries are not enough to achieve a better civilization, not even 20 centuries...

Religion and fanaticism are usually generated by poverty. The people who try to be 'human' are crushed by the fear or the ambition of the others. Nothing new, we all have been through that situation. The actors were playing right, the story is very convincing and help to understand this part of History. Only films can make mistakes visible and understood.

The film is very exciting because, all along, it makes me wonder how I would have managed, what solution I would have chosen, what I would have done or not done. The love story in the film shows that Romeo and Juliet will exist and repeat for ever in any civilization.

The pilot of a war plane is about to die and on the ground, a young woman tries to accompany his death moment by talking to him on the radio. This film is romantic (pure love), fantasist (disney like), innocent (even the bady is sweet), almost lyrical, extremely naive. They don't make them like that anymore! It probably reflects the change of our society. To watch with a scone/crean/strawberry jam and a pot of tea when the weather is awful and you feel lonely. However David Niven is not triggering any emotion. He is too stuck up, like a dummy.

The characters, the idea, the setting, everything was brilliant but the story was too far fetched. I had too many questions about it that remain without an answer.

We have there all the worn out topics of Psychology and Philosophy: The meaning of life, the Absurd, the depression. If the director/author wanted to illustrate these topics, then he was almost successful. I was bored, and, at the end of the film, depressed . The only scene I found slightly amusing was when the hero loses his face...literary. No trace of emotion.

On the technical point of view, it is extremely well done.

Alphaville said exactly what I wanted to say but, because I love Woody Allen, I put one more star. Still it is far from being his best film even if worth seeing.