And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003)
46 %
Reviews Counted: 71 Fresh: 33 Rotten:38 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Consensus:
The plot is convoluted and awash in suds.
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Theatrical Release: Aug 1, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $595,954
Synopsis: "Life is a deep sleep, of which love is the dream" - Alfred de Musset A thief on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls who have become fugitives from the past. . . but now, fate is about to bring them together in the... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte, Alessandra Martines, Jean-Marie Bigard
Director: Claude Lelouch
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch
Producer: Claude Lelouch, Paul Hichcock, Rick Senat
Composer: Michel Legrand
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch
Producer: Claude Lelouch, Paul Hichcock, Rick Senat
Composer: Michel Legrand
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Reviews
A good-looking but slim confection that's short on the multi-characterisation and sense of entwined destinies that mark the great Lelouch sagas.
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01/15/08
Top Critic
According to common usage, the French word stupide comes closer to silly than to dumb, which is how I might rationalize my affection for this harebrained, obvious, but euphoric tale.
01/15/08
Top Critic
Lelouch isn't interested in anything so pedestrian as plausible narrative.... some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.
01/02/05
Lelouch's wink at the viewer, his gentle undermining of the illusion of the dramatic unity of time and place, playfully tweaks the film's fundamental project of connection.
11/11/04
Because the majority of scenes are drawn out and obviously improvised, this disjointed and rambling confection will have limited appeal to others.
04/16/04
Lelouch ... assuring he doesn’t fully lose his audience by the convolutions of the mind, still actively takes part in putting up a fog screen as to avoid total comprehension.
12/31/03
This is like a collection of the best moments from Claude Lelouch's filmography -- with bits and pieces joyously borrowed from his films from the 1970s and '80s, when he was at his most prolific and ingenious.
10/24/03
The most sophisticated love story since In the Mood for Love, The House of Mirth and The English Patient.
09/18/03
... simply abstract, substituting romantic gesture for romance and gluing scenes together with vague emotional logic and silky style.
09/12/03
You'll either like this soaringly daft confection, even as it aggravates you with its self-absorption, or you won't. I did.
08/29/03
This drowsy caper comes on like a fun-house mirror of layered pretensions.
08/29/03
The movie is overcrowded with ideas, any one of which might have made a fun premise. Put them all together and the result is just plain silly.
08/29/03
Few, if any, other actors could match Irons' stiff-lipped exterior sealing an internal combustion engine of mischief and passion.
08/28/03
May not be entirely successful, but there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.
08/28/03
...plays like your neighbors' two-hour vacation slideshow that they insist on showing every time you come over.
08/28/03
It's two-plus hours of trinkets and baubles and clever repartée beneath a perfect summer sun and beside the whitewashed walls of Fez.
08/24/03
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