Pretty Devils
Starring:Olivia Bonamy, Audrey Tautou, Axelle Ade-Pasdeloup, Didier Bezace, Serge Hazanavicius, Marie Matheron, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Natacha Amal, Serge Riaboukine, Chantal Pelletier, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Jean-Hugues Oppel, Jacques Mazeau, Sébastien Loiseau, Olivier Lacut, Jérémie Loiseau, Nassim Iazouguen, Sami Iazouguen, Olivia Baup, Emma Ferenczi
Director: Serge Meynard
Studio: Terra Entertainment
Product Type: DVD
Average customer rating:
- A trial run for Amelie
- all four stars for audrey
- A darkly comical "coming-of-age" film
- Better than god is great, but not as good as others
- Pretty Good
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Pretty Devils
Starring: Olivia Bonamy , Audrey Tautou , Axelle Ade-Pasdeloup , Didier Bezace , and Serge Hazanavicius
Director: Serge Meynard
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ASIN: B0000714E9
Release Date: 2002-11-26 |
Customer Reviews:
A trial run for Amelie.......2006-12-09
If you've seen Amelie, you will recognize the "revenge through petty things" theme in this movie. A jilted young girl teams up with two sisters who con older men out of their wallets, together they conspire to ruin her former lover's life.
The movie is well done, but lacks the maturity of Amelie. The concept works, but, at times the scenarios are a tad too contrived.
Worth watching
all four stars for audrey.......2005-12-26
and she was the only reason why i watched this, the supporting characters were good as the pickpockets.even when audrey is playing a bad girl, she still conveys a sweetness that makes her appealing. the guy who played her boyfriend was a true jerk, and i was glad he got his. audrey has over ten movies under her belt and is about to be unleashed onto america in a big way...she will make america debut in may 2006 in " the davinci code..."
A darkly comical "coming-of-age" film.......2004-12-21
This is an earlier Audrey Tautou movie (2000), with a feel darker than Amelie, but not as heavy as Pretty Dirty Things. In this film, Tautou (as always) plays an off-center lovable young woman (Anne-Sophie) who finds unique ways of dealing with the difficulties of life. When she travels to Paris to surprise her boyfriend and finds him with another woman, Anne-Sophie decides to end it all in a gymnasium. However, she instead meets two sisters who have another way of dealing with life - petty crime. Despite some rough starts, the three become rather like sisters. The movie perpetually crosses between (and together) comedy and drama, but never seems to leave the scope of the three women and those close to them (the "step-father" cop, the single mom, the boyfriend to revenge). Finally, when the results of the pranks and thievery threaten to overwhelm the women, the detective step-father (to-be) steps in and shows them (and the audience) that he can be trusted. Thus, throughout the petty deceptions of the film, resolution appears in an unexpected spot.
In terms of the quality of the film, it has an "older" feel than I expected - sort of a mid-1980s touch to it. Also, the scenery is grungy and working-class, and, like the seemier side of life that appear but don't overwhelm, makes the funny bits dark and the unsettling bits darker. Yet there is an irreverance too, so that even the unsettling bits have a touch of humor to them.
Overall, I recommend the movie. Particularly if you are an Audrey fan, this film, while not the high of Amelie, has many classic moments.
Better than god is great, but not as good as others.......2004-11-07
If we're comparing this to other Audrey movies, this one is just OK. It's more bearable than God is Great. Doesn't Audrey like to play psychos??? This movie is a bit strange, just like her others ones... but it's doable...
Pretty Good.......2004-09-08
This interesting foreign film is a character study involving three young girls growing up feeling a need to rebel against authority.
Another Audrey Tautou hit...In this film she is still the camera's best friend as a 20ish woman breaking away from her mother and trying to reach her older lover. She encounters a few setbacks and meets two sisters along the way who give her life new thrill. The sisters are played by Olivia Bonamy and Axelle Ade-Pasdeloup who both do fantastic jobs portraying a pair of bored and lonely kids looking for a better way in life. Unfortunately the sisters coerce Tautou into joining their amateur game of stealing wallets from men they entice with the possibility of sexual favors. It seems to be a good game with a lot of vulnerably stupid men falling for promise rather than brains but the game is illegal and only serves to cause the young women more problems.
This French film is not high powered and action packed but it is enticing in its subtle way. Each of the three young women arrives at the little game they develop with a different goal in mind. The youngest (Ade-Pasdeloup) is a straight "A" student and enamored with biology, her older sister (Bonamy) it a bitter calculator who shrewdly distances herself from others and lastly Tautou is the fragile woman on the edge feeling a need for a heart stopping thrill. As the film moves along the driving forces are slowly revealed finally satisfying viewers. It is not Tautou's best but it is pretty good despite the devilish activities.
Average customer rating:
- A trial run for Amelie
- all four stars for audrey
- A darkly comical "coming-of-age" film
- Better than god is great, but not as good as others
- Pretty Good
|
Pretty Devils
Starring: Olivia Bonamy , Audrey Tautou , Axelle Ade-Pasdeloup , Didier Bezace , and Serge Hazanavicius
Director: Serge Meynard
Manufacturer: Terra
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Similar Items:
- God Is Great, and I'm Not
- Venus Beauty Institute
- Happenstance
- Not on the Lips
- L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)
ASIN: B0000714HJ
Release Date: 2002-11-26 |
Customer Reviews:
A trial run for Amelie.......2006-12-09
If you've seen Amelie, you will recognize the "revenge through petty things" theme in this movie. A jilted young girl teams up with two sisters who con older men out of their wallets, together they conspire to ruin her former lover's life.
The movie is well done, but lacks the maturity of Amelie. The concept works, but, at times the scenarios are a tad too contrived.
Worth watching
all four stars for audrey.......2005-12-26
and she was the only reason why i watched this, the supporting characters were good as the pickpockets.even when audrey is playing a bad girl, she still conveys a sweetness that makes her appealing. the guy who played her boyfriend was a true jerk, and i was glad he got his. audrey has over ten movies under her belt and is about to be unleashed onto america in a big way...she will make america debut in may 2006 in " the davinci code..."
A darkly comical "coming-of-age" film.......2004-12-21
This is an earlier Audrey Tautou movie (2000), with a feel darker than Amelie, but not as heavy as Pretty Dirty Things. In this film, Tautou (as always) plays an off-center lovable young woman (Anne-Sophie) who finds unique ways of dealing with the difficulties of life. When she travels to Paris to surprise her boyfriend and finds him with another woman, Anne-Sophie decides to end it all in a gymnasium. However, she instead meets two sisters who have another way of dealing with life - petty crime. Despite some rough starts, the three become rather like sisters. The movie perpetually crosses between (and together) comedy and drama, but never seems to leave the scope of the three women and those close to them (the "step-father" cop, the single mom, the boyfriend to revenge). Finally, when the results of the pranks and thievery threaten to overwhelm the women, the detective step-father (to-be) steps in and shows them (and the audience) that he can be trusted. Thus, throughout the petty deceptions of the film, resolution appears in an unexpected spot.
In terms of the quality of the film, it has an "older" feel than I expected - sort of a mid-1980s touch to it. Also, the scenery is grungy and working-class, and, like the seemier side of life that appear but don't overwhelm, makes the funny bits dark and the unsettling bits darker. Yet there is an irreverance too, so that even the unsettling bits have a touch of humor to them.
Overall, I recommend the movie. Particularly if you are an Audrey fan, this film, while not the high of Amelie, has many classic moments.
Better than god is great, but not as good as others.......2004-11-07
If we're comparing this to other Audrey movies, this one is just OK. It's more bearable than God is Great. Doesn't Audrey like to play psychos??? This movie is a bit strange, just like her others ones... but it's doable...
Pretty Good.......2004-09-08
This interesting foreign film is a character study involving three young girls growing up feeling a need to rebel against authority.
Another Audrey Tautou hit...In this film she is still the camera's best friend as a 20ish woman breaking away from her mother and trying to reach her older lover. She encounters a few setbacks and meets two sisters along the way who give her life new thrill. The sisters are played by Olivia Bonamy and Axelle Ade-Pasdeloup who both do fantastic jobs portraying a pair of bored and lonely kids looking for a better way in life. Unfortunately the sisters coerce Tautou into joining their amateur game of stealing wallets from men they entice with the possibility of sexual favors. It seems to be a good game with a lot of vulnerably stupid men falling for promise rather than brains but the game is illegal and only serves to cause the young women more problems.
This French film is not high powered and action packed but it is enticing in its subtle way. Each of the three young women arrives at the little game they develop with a different goal in mind. The youngest (Ade-Pasdeloup) is a straight "A" student and enamored with biology, her older sister (Bonamy) it a bitter calculator who shrewdly distances herself from others and lastly Tautou is the fragile woman on the edge feeling a need for a heart stopping thrill. As the film moves along the driving forces are slowly revealed finally satisfying viewers. It is not Tautou's best but it is pretty good despite the devilish activities.
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