Masques

Starring:Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Chaumette, Anne Brochet, Roger Dumas (II), Pierre-FranÃ§ois Dumeniaud, Pierre Nougaro, RenÃ©e Dennsy, Yvonne Decade, Blanche Ariel, RenÃ© Marjac, Paul Vally, Denise Pezzani, Pierre Hisch, Michel Dupuy, Henri Attal, Dominique Zardi, FranÃ§ois Lafont
Director: Claude Chabrol
Studio: Homevision
Product Type: DVD

Description

Philippe Noiret (Il Postino, 'Round Midnight) delivers a brilliant performance as a TV Game show host turned killer in Claude Chabrol#s Masques. Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of TV personality Christian Legagneur (Noiret) - or is he? He spends a weekend doing research for his project and he meets Legagneur's oddball friends and juvenile charge who suffers from a mysterious ailment. A deadly game of cat and mouse, Masques will keep you guessing from first frame to last.

Customer Reviews:

Only mildly interesting...Not worth the price.......2007-04-26

Slow moving mystery with a "preachy" but meaningless ending...worth one viewing so I'm glad that I only rented it. I love Claude Chabrol's 1995 film La Ceremonie and own the DVD...an A+ movie in suspense, theme, and character psychology that is as good as any Hitchcock film in its twists and turns and priceless ending. Now, perhaps, one is expecting too much.

One From the Vaults.......2005-07-14

The release of Chabrol's box set last year (2003)has led to a re-evaluation of this seminal new waver's entire ouvre. Previous to the release of this box set common wisdom held that Chabrol made several masterpieces in the sixties and early seventies (Les Biches, Femme Infidele, Le Boucher, This Man Must Die) but that by the mid-seventies his creative well had dried up. Common wisdom also held that Chabrol then experienced a creative rejuvination of his vital creative fluids in the nineties at which time he resumed his task of making masterpieces (Le Ceremonie, Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Flowers of Evil). The films that fall between those two creative periods have largely been forgotten or were never noticed before (by English speaking audiences) because they were never released in this part of the world . The release of the box set in 2003 (which included the above mentioned masterpieces as well as some masteful oddities like La Rupture, Ten Days Wonder& Nada) along with the release of Masques in 2004 ( DVD released in July 2004 but the film was made in 1989), however, has led many to re-evaluate Chabrol's middle period. Masques along with the still available Cry of the Owl (1987) provide ample proof that the years between Le Boucher and La Ceremonie were no less fruitful for Chabrol than were his other more lauded decades of production (1960's & 1990's). In fact with Masques (available for the first time to American viewers) it is begining to appear that the eighties were perhaps Chabrol's most thoughtful years. From the vantage point of psychological complexity and class antagonism the eighties films seem far more advanced than anything that came before them and these films certainly point the way toward the kinds of films Chabrol is now making---finely nuanced portraits of the sociology (and sociopathology) of class. Highly recommeded to any Chabrol fan. Also recommended Bertrand Tavernier's Clean Slate, which also stars Noiret in another double-edged performance. Hopefully this trend of releasing Chabrol's lost masterpieces will continue. It also seems that Chabrol's earliest films are beginning to gain the respect that has long been accorded to Truffaut and Godard. In retrospectives Chabrol's seem to be the films that retain their edge. Chabrol's dark (and oft times comic) allure is one of the rarest pleasures afforded by cinema, past or present.

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