If I had never seen "The Triplets of Belleville", "Brazil", "V for Vendetta", or "Sweeney Todd", I would have rated this movie a 9. The production values are second to none, especially for a European movie.
Perhaps I'm jaded, but plots with a twist or two are great, but not if you can see them coming from a mile away.
It is, however, a very mature film because it is unashamedly campy and doesn't pretend to be anything other than that. Not really "film noir", but instead "film sepia".
If you're a fan of French movies, you should recognize Dominique Pinon right away as the pessimistic young thug in "Diva". He seems miscast here as the potential love interest of the butcher's daughter, since he seems older than Jean-Claude Dreyfus, who plays the butcher. Alasmaybe that's part of the intended effect. (Pinon is actually nine years younger than Dreyfus.) If you didn't really like any of the movies named hereinabove, you probably will have a hard time "getting" this. Otherwise enjoy.
Perhaps I'm jaded, but plots with a twist or two are great, but not if you can see them coming from a mile away.
It is, however, a very mature film because it is unashamedly campy and doesn't pretend to be anything other than that. Not really "film noir", but instead "film sepia".
If you're a fan of French movies, you should recognize Dominique Pinon right away as the pessimistic young thug in "Diva". He seems miscast here as the potential love interest of the butcher's daughter, since he seems older than Jean-Claude Dreyfus, who plays the butcher. Alasmaybe that's part of the intended effect. (Pinon is actually nine years younger than Dreyfus.) If you didn't really like any of the movies named hereinabove, you probably will have a hard time "getting" this. Otherwise enjoy.