The Bridesmaid / La demoiselle d'honneur (2004)
The Bridesmaid (2004)
DVDRip | MKV | 670 x 572 | x264 @ 1248 Kbps | 105 min | 1,34 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 670 x 572 | x264 @ 1248 Kbps | 105 min | 1,34 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
A middle class family in Loire, where things seem just a tad off kilter. Philippe dotes on his mother, who has raised his two sisters and him. Gérard, a wealthy man just divorced, is paying attention to her, then drops her. Philippe is actually pleased, and retrieves from Gérard's garden a stone head - of the goddess Flora - that his mother had given Gérard. At the wedding of one of his sisters, Philippe meets Senta, a quirky and moody young woman: they fall quickly in love, despite her odd behaviors and Philippe's general good sense. Senta announces a plan for them to prove their love to each other; it involves poetry, tree planting, and murder. What will Philippe do?
Director Claude Chabrol has been around a long time, and actor Benoit Magimel is a comparative newcomer, but their chemistry results in a sublime entertainment. Magimel had a supporting role in Chabrol's last film ("La Fleur du Mal"), but here he's top-billed and he's superb. As a hard-working sales rep for a French home-improvement firm, Magimel projects his diverse skills with great subtlety. He portrays the dutiful, loving son to a hard-working single mom and older brother to two sisters (one, a preoccupied bride-to-be, and the other a snotty layabout), and he's a real straight-arrow, jacket-and-necktie clad guy. But he meets one wild and messy love-target at his sister's wedding. This thoroughly disorganized and slovenly young woman may (or may not) be a certifiable fruitcake and chronic liar, but – through her – our very proper sales rep is introduced to carnage and murder on a major scale. Watch Magimel's handsome but expressive face as he struggles with new-found passion, love, doubt, dismay, fear, loathing and about a hundred other mixed emotions. If you don't know his prior work, you'll be discovering an actor of consummate skill. And with this twisty, funny and consistently suspenseful film, you'll be enjoying one of the best films in Chabrol's long and distinguished career.
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The Bridesmaid / La demoiselle d'honneur (2004)
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