The film by Claude Lelouch, who has long been waiting to see, “And now, ladies and gentlemen...” Ladies and Gentlemen, released in 2002. Although the film’s slogan says “Based on a true story”, i.e. that the film is based on real events, I would not perceive it as very realistic, because, as was the case in Lelouch’s films (in particular,
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The film by Claude Lelouch, who has long been waiting to see, “And now, ladies and gentlemen...” Ladies and Gentlemen, released in 2002. Although the film’s slogan says “Based on a true story”, i.e. that the film is based on real events, I would not perceive it as very realistic, because, as was the case in Lelouch’s films (in particular, in the film “Beautiful Story”), some real events are intertwined there with dreams and fantasies, which, of course, can be perceived as the author’s depiction of the disease of the main characters, in which this can occur. The main character is a famous and very successful thief Valentine (Jeremy Irons), specializing in the virtuoso robbery of jewelry stores and fraud with other art objects, in the process of one robbery, who met his partner Francoise (Alessandra Martinez) and has lived with her for more than one year, feels that he is tired of such a life and decides to fulfill his old dream - to buy a yacht and go on a trip around the world alone, although his health began to fail, memory problems and severe headaches occurred. Françoise is not happy about this idea, although their life together has already begun to burden her, but she has no choice but to accept this idea. The second main character, Jane (Patricia Kaas), a middle-class singer who performs in restaurants and clubs, is forced to leave her place of work because the partner who rushed between her and another woman preferred the second one, so she did not want to continue her performances there, besides, she began to have health problems, memory loss began to occur, because of which she sometimes committed inexplicable acts. Fate brings the main characters in the Moroccan city where Jane comes to work, and Valentine was towed by fishermen when he lost consciousness for a long time, and then could not navigate. They have similar problems, both are going to be scanned by the same doctor. But then, again, fate intervenes, which makes serious adjustments to the seemingly planned plans and begins the whistling, which in general could end tragically. The end seems to be happy, but this is far from a fact, perhaps this is another fantasy of the main character, and maybe not. The film turned out to be quite good, as always, perfectly played by Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas was also good, flashed in secondary roles and other famous actors – Claudia Cardinale, Thierry Lermitt, Ivan Attal. Nice unobtrusive music by Michel Legrand. But a masterpiece of the film, of course, can not be called.
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