The French Guy
Ooh la la
Posted by: ThirteenDamnDollars, September 12, 2005 07:29 PM
Ann Marie Fleming
Saturday September 10th, 9:30PM
Cumberland
A mature woman is booted out of her post-brain-cancer-surgery hospital bed with the sutchers still fresh on her head. Her head bleeds, her jaw locks with startling frequency and every time she sneezes she hears a sickening crunch and gets searing headaches.
Living in her long time platonic friends beautiful apartment, waiting for him to return home so she can declare her love to him, things start to get a little strange when she brings home a pretty boy singer song writer and accidentally pulls out his tounge (what? that's never happened to you?). Things get really weird when the classical quartet shows up. This is an absurdist surreal murder comedey. If that appeals to you, you'll like this movie.
Soon she's stabbing old friends and cooking them up for dinner
Posted by: Task, September 11, 2005 01:21 PM
Saturday, September 10 9:30 PM CUMBERLAND 3
Tripping and falling face-first over the line between "absurdist comedy" and "just plain absurd" is this movie about brain surgery and shortening hospital recovery times. The title of the movie comes from the best and least important character in the movie: the next door neighbour. The best and funniest parts of the movie revolve around him and his ridiculously stereotypical frenchness, and he's pretty much irrelevant to the overall story. I would not call this a "good thing" usually, but I didn't find the main story of the woman with part of her brain removed killing her best friend very captivating, so you take what you can get.
There were lots of fantastic scenes (a house wrapped in plastic! it just screams "prospective murder location"!) and witty dialogue and clever plot bits (having a string section practicing in the house to provide the suspenseful soundtrack to her dramatic scenes) but for some reason I just didn't like the end result very much. Unfortunate.