Showing posts with label 2007 French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2007 French. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Last Mistress - Une vieille maîtresse

Released Year: 2007
Directed by Catherine Breillat

Casted by:
Asia Argento as Vellini
Fu'ad Aït Aattou as Ryno de Marigny
Roxane Mesquida as Hermangarde
Story:
Ryno de Marigny, before getting married to the young and innocent Hermangarde, makes a last visit to La Vellini, his Spanish mistress, to bid goodbye in an act of lovemaking. His liaison with La Vellini is the subject of the Parisian gossip, and before Hermangarde's grandmother gives her blessing, she wants to hear from Ryno everything about this relationship.

Ryno reveals a tempestuous story but indicates that his ten year romance is over; he now is in love with Hermangarde. After the marriage, the newlyweds move away to a castle at the seashore. They are happy and soon Hermangarde conceives. But the "last/old mistress" reappears, and while Ryno tries to keep her out of his life, she is not to be rejected, and Hermangarde finds out about it.

Hermangarde was frustrated and disappointed, she then make abortion and decided to leave Ryno in the end.
L² Scored: 3.5/10

L² Comment:
Ok, i feel so sleepy the whole movie. Fuad is too beautiful, dont feel like a man at all~ Asia's boobs are nice and juicy, but the whole movie is jst too damn boring. Yawn !!!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Mr Bean's Holiday

Released Year: 2007
Directed by Steve Bendelack

Casted by:
Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean
Max Baldry as Stepan
Emma de Caunes as Shabine
Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay
Story:
Mr Bean went for the pot luck and won an air ticket to French together with a cam recorder. Being as excited as he is, he reach French with hope of going to the beach that he has dream to. But while buying a snack from the vendor machine, his tie was stuck in the money slot and he missed the train.

Mr Bean then went on for his meal in a restaurant and not knowing the French, he let the waiter order the seafood palate for him. Disgust of eating raw food, he ended up throwing all his oyster into the handbag of a lady who's sitting on the next table. While he went on the train, he force a guy to took his video cam of boarding the train. But his action has coz the guy not able to aboard on the train. Apparently he is a director and his son was on the train, Stepan.

Stepan was angry with Bean with this and stole his cam recorder and gone down on the next station. To get back his recorder, Bean left his luggage on the train. While the next non-stop train came, they saw the father holding a card with phone number on it, but the last 2 numbers was being covered. While they are busying trying to call every number, a train came and they rushed on it, Bean only realize he left all his money and passport on the phone booth. Ticket lady came and hoo them off the train for not getting a ticket. Being out of idea, both of them trying to vandalise the phone booth to get some coins and was chase away by the security guard.

Both Bean and Stepan perform on street and managed to get money and bought ticket to Cannes to meet Stepan's father. But Bean's ticket accidentally fly away and stuck under a chicken's feet. To chase after, Bean went on a bicycle and ride all his way to a nowhere which ended up on a movie scene and met Shabine. In another hand, Stepan managed to take a free ride with others to Cannes. Bean has disturbed the film shooting and Shabine gave him a free ride to Cannes as Shabine is an actress and going for the academy awards.

On their way, Bean met with Stepan again, three of them went over to Cannes in Shabine's car. But police was trying to catch Bean for kidnapping Stepan, so Shabine dressed up the two guys and try to sneak them into the accademy. But only 1 ticket is allowed, being desperate, Bean brought Stepan in. Bean was fooling around with Carson's movie by helping Shabine to gain fame.

In the end, Bean brought Stepan back to his father and he managed to find his beach that he dream of.
Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:
The whole movie is a bit of mix & match of Bean's series. Not really exciting though but its quite good. Rowan is funny and i like his expression very much, makes me remember of Goofy ~ hahahaha