Rent Barocco (1976)
3.2 of 5 from 60 ratings
1h 43min
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- Synopsis:
- A strange and beautiful variation on Hitchcock's Vertigo, French director Andre Techine's Barocco stars Isabelle Adjani as the girlfriend of a boxer (Gerard Depardieu) who's being paid to smear a political candidate. But when the blackmail goes wrong and the boxer is killed, his killer (Gerard Depardieu) follows Adjani, seeking the boxer's money ... but slowly he becomes obsessed with Adjani, and she in turn decides to remake him into her dead lover.
- Actors:
- Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar, Hélène Surgère, Jean-François Stévenin, Peter Bonke, Leny Suck, Elise Hoomans, Frans Vorstman, Helmert Woudenberg, Adrian Brine, Truus Dekker, Susan Senduk
- Directors:
- André Téchiné
- Writers:
- André Téchiné, Marilyn Goldin
- Studio:
- Arrow Films
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Countries:
- France
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Reviews (2) of Barocco
Difficult to follow - Barocco review by JD
Reading the official synopsis above I can recognise the plot. It may be that the translation doesn't do it justice but I couldn't follow it during the film. At one point Depardieu shoots himself or at least a double of himself through a window. I thought that was important but it seems it was just a way of getting him to play two very similar parts in the same film. Too confusing. The political smearing does not obviously bear any relationship to the boxers fame and why should it?
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A mess of a movie - Barocco review by Alphaville
Fascinating to see Gerard and Isabelle before they became big stars, but the film itself is a mess that does them no service. You may need to check the DVD sleeve notes to find out what’s going on. Scenes lack focus, acting and dialogue are poor and the director just doesn’t seem to have a handle on it. A waste of all the talents involved.
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