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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 38

The plot is convoluted and awash in suds.

Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 14

The plot is convoluted and awash in suds.

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Valentin (also known as And Now...Ladies and Gentleman) is directed by Claude Lelouch and features Jeremy Irons as Valentin, a criminal mastermind whose jewel-stealing business, despite having made him rich, does not offer him much room for personal growth. Hoping to find meaning for his existence, Valentin buys a boat and sets off on a one-man sailing trip around the world, with the police at his heels. At the same time, a burned-out jazz singer named Jane (Patricia Kaas) is in Morocco trying

PG-13, 2 hr. 13 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Claude Lelouch

Written By: Pierre Leroux, Claude Lelouch

In Theaters: Aug 1, 2003 Wide

On DVD: Jan 13, 2004

Box Office:$0.6M

Paramount Classics

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Critic Reviews for And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen

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A good-looking but slim confection that's short on the multi-characterisation and sense of entwined destinies that mark the great Lelouch sagas.

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Derek Elley

Variety

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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.

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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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.

October 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

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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.

August 29, 2003 Comment

Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

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A beautifully crafted meditation on memory, fate, coincidence and yearning.

August 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Denver Post

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Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

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It's silly the way hope, optimism and love are silly: silly and rather wonderful.

August 22, 2003 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

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Lelouch isn't interested in anything so pedestrian as plausible narrative.... some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.

January 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.

November 11, 2004 Full Review Source: PopMatters

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Chris Elliot

PopMatters

It's ludicrous.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com

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Tony Medley

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Because the majority of scenes are drawn out and obviously improvised, this disjointed and rambling confection will have limited appeal to others.

April 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

rambling and far too long

January 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

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.

December 31, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Greg Muskewitz

eFilmCritic.com

The most sophisticated love story since In the Mood for Love, The House of Mirth and The English Patient.

September 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Jon Lap

Apollo Guide

... simply abstract, substituting romantic gesture for romance and gluing scenes together with vague emotional logic and silky style.

September 12, 2003 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Sean Axmaker

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

You'll either like this soaringly daft confection, even as it aggravates you with its self-absorption, or you won't. I did.

August 29, 2003 Comment

Mary Brennan

Seattle Times

This drowsy caper comes on like a fun-house mirror of layered pretensions.

August 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly

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Steve Schneider

Orlando Weekly

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"And Now...Ladies and Gentlemen" is about two people of different professions - Valentin Valentin(Jeremy Irons, who also played Humbert Humbert in "Lolita". What gives?), a jewel thief/master of disguise and Jane Lester(Patricia Kaas), a jazz singer - who are both suffering from the same physical malady - blackouts

April 25, 2005

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

The acting by the cast in "and now... ladies and gentlemen" - both by great actors like Jeremy Irons, as well as others, like Patricia Kaas a famous Jazz singer, is beautiful, very deeply felt.I was moved by the expression in these two actor's eyes. But one mustn't consider and rate acting by itself in Lelouch

April 4, 2009