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Rated: Unrated; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Daniel Auteuil and Isabelle Huppert

Of course, escapism isn't all that the movies have to offer, but you may still want to ask yourself whether you're really in the mood for a painfully accurate portrait of the final weeks of a failed marriage. Both Auteuil (Jean de Florette) and Huppert (La Ceremonie) are as magnificent as ever, conveying a bevy of complex, sometimes contradictory emotions without resorting to the shrill shouting matches that tend to mar American films on the same subject. Still, there's no denying that it's a bit of an ordeal, and Auteuil's cuckolded husband is so relentlessly passive-aggressive that you're liable to gradually become active-annoyed.


Posted Sep 10, 1999
 

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