
Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again.... (Full plot summary below)
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Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe characters in Marius and Jeannette are its strongest selling point... |
| Film.comPeter BrunetteAll in all, it's a very sweet, quiet, ultra-laidback movie, but it may ultimately be just too quiet for Americans, on whom the in-jokes and local flavor will be lost. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. Karten...a tender, humorous and sometimes biting commentary on the lives of the people with whom he[Guediguian] feels comfortable. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff Vice[I]f this low-key charmer has a fault, it's that there are so many interesting and fully developed characters that any one of them could have held an entire movie. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsJames SanfordIf you're easily charmed by stories featuring nutty folks playing Cupid for troubled lovers, you may find this French comedy enchanting. If eccentricity alone doesn't usually persuade you to buy a ticket, 'Marius' is 102 missable minutes. |
| Critics Inc./America OnlineBrandon Judella study of the difficulties working-class love faces when confronted with unemployment, past betrayals, and a deteriorating social structure |
| User ReviewReginald RIt's delightful to see this particular visual style, as used in Delicatessen, actually work for a change. Although I still think there would be much better solutions out there than this dully colorful thing. Anyhow, Jeunet & Caro have made a masterful dark absurd comedy. But it does get too messy towards the end. Remember the couple of Clint Eastwood films with the orangutang? That's right. Every Which Way But Loose is in my opinion a great American movie, at least as long as you don't take it as any kind of a moral lesson. I love it how Eastwood's character is a terrible conversationalist. Marius and Jeanette is a mature and gloriously sunny working-class character drama from Robert Guédiguian. Rio Lobo is the last of the Rio Bravo - El Dorado trilogy, and also Howard Hawk's last film. There's a train robbery sequence in the beginning which is pretty nice, and also some good action at the end, but overall the film is just recycling used ideas, and not doing it particularly well either. That's not to say that it's not entertaining; it's very entertaining for what it is, but not on the same level as the previous two films. Much of the directing and especially the women's acting is all sloppy and unprofessional. Rio Lobo adds yet another version of the famous jail scenario, and for the sake of continuety, why not? It's also nice to see John Wayne being so largely in the 'old man' category that he can be referred to as "comfortable". Hope and Glory gives us a child's view on what it was like to be in London during the second world war bombings. And in that respect it's pretty good. The text and characters however are too impersonal, and therefore a large length of the film goes on rather uninterestingly. The last part at the grandparent's house is visually gorgeous, and even the story and characters gain truer and livelier faces. The little girl and the grandfather are both simply adorable. |
| User ReviewIsabelle MTres drole! Ã?a faisait longtps q je voulais le voir. |
| User ReviewJohn BI haven't seen or heard from Robert Guediguian in awhile which is a real shame. I enjoyed his slice of life treatments of Marseilles and the humanity of its residents. This was the crowning jewel. |
| User ReviewEmmanuel FOrdinary plot and story line, few funny scenes. |