Préparez vos mouchoirs
The film has everything “Les Valseuses” had as well: the combination of Depardieu and Dewaere, one woman they are dealing with throughout the film, Blier’s totally un-Nouvelle vague style, the character’s bad mouth who don’t give any shit about society and an unusual story – the formula sounds like it’s the same thing as “Les Valseuses”. But in this case, they are actually in love with the female character, making both the protagonists romantic delinquents which is pretty much entirely different from “Les Valseuses”. Seeing Depardieu make a lovesick face is so lovely somehow?
Unfortunately I disliked the woman they are going through all this ordeal for, but maybe it makes sense. All she is surrounded by are idiots after all, it’s as if she saw what nobody in “Les Valseuses” was able to see.
The worst about the entire film is that damn kid! There is no good reason why she would take a liking to him whatsoever, given how annoying he actually is.
Loris said the film would get worse after the beginning. Sadly that was true! I laughed at the first scenes in the film, but then it deteriorated indeed. I still like how it makes fun of everything – Mozart, doctors, the entire bourgeois world, and the film had a few awesome scenes here and there, but in general I wasn’t impressed.
“Préparez vos mouchoirs” would make some nice Youtube snippets and has an interesting premise (not too far from “Les Valseuses”), and it was mostly enjoyable but I cannot recommend it.
The plot sounded so great, too bad. Would you still give out a personal recommendation for me, or is not recommendable even to me? :3
It’s such a great premise, and the combination Depardieu-Dewaere ist absolutely genius. I can’t even recommend it to you, because the second half of the film is just so silly. You could watch it and then skip through the movie ever since the little boy appears, some of the scenes at the beginning are totally worth it. XD
After listening to the Vienna Choir Boys on my way home, I realized another reason why I disliked the second part of the story. I really, really hated the little boy; he was the exact opposite of a nymphet and, in some sense, totally not suited for playing such a role. I could wrap my head around the woman who was at least somewhat interesting, but the boy? Urks.