Barocco (1976) (Sub)

Starring:Isabelle Adjani, GÃ©rard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar, HÃ©lÃ¨ne SurgÃ¨re, Jean-FranÃ§ois StÃ©venin, Peter Bonke, Leny Suck, Elise Hoomans, Frans Vorstman, Helmert Woudenberg, Adrian Brine, Truus Dekker, Susan Senduk, Serge-Henri Valcke, Mac Maaldrink, Derek de Lint, Claude Brasseur, Marie-France (IV)
Director: AndrÃ© TÃ©chinÃ©
Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Product Type: DVD

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A strange and beautiful variation on Vertigo, French director André Téchiné's Barocco (in English, "Baroque") stars Isabelle Adjani as the girlfriend of a boxer (Gérard Depardieu) who's being paid to smear a political candidate. When the boxer is killed, his killer (Depardieu again) follows Adjani, seeking the boxer's money--but he also grows obsessed with Adjani, and she in turn decides to remake him into her dead lover. Barocco, with its gorgeously composed cinematography and circuitous plot, evokes the style of directors like Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock; it's as much an homage to other thrillers as it is a thriller itself. But very few movies wear their influences so successfully--despite the abstruseness of its plot, Barocco is full of hypnotic and dazzling images, and Depardieu and Adjani give intense, haunted performances. A movie for movie-lovers. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

Wow.......2003-12-05

A really smart riff on Noir. Beautiful to look at, magical and deep, I really liked this movie and was so absorbed that I didn't spot the drag queen until the second time around. Adjani is incredibly touching and Depardieu treads the fine line between menace and vulnerability like a master. Boy, don't miss this one.

I liked it.......2003-01-26

Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani star in this suspenseful noir tale of black-mail, deception and murder.

A young woman (Adjani) convinces her ex-prizefighter boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When the boyfriend is murdered, she is racked with guilt until she meets the killer (Depardiue - a dead ringer for the murdered man.

The murderer is now in hiding from his former employers (who will kill him too) and the police. He accepts the woman's need to "reinvent" him as her dead boyfriend - literally transforming his identity. But can love transform his soul as well?

Techine infuses the classic elements of film noir with a daring moral dimension breaking the shallow boundaries that enervate the multi-hide of lesser contemporary homages to the genre.

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