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Gazon maudit (1995)
Funny but not just...
The premise of this film may appear ridiculous. How could a straight woman suddenly hesitate on her sexuality when a very butch woman turns up one fine day and fall in love with her? But the premise is but an excuse for an interesting comedy, based on a classic menage a trois, but with a twist. Characters are interesting. Victoria Abril as the neglected housewife is very good. Alain Chabat as the Casanova, sleeping with anybody (at least with any woman) is superb. The scene in which his daughter visits him in his office is funny then poignant. The last scene of the film (cut from the American and British version) is unexpected. The regretted Ticky Holgado is perfect in his role as Alain Chabat colleague. As far as Josiane Balasko, who wrote the film as well as starred in it, she may not be the most convincing Butch lesbian you will find, but she wrote a good film, funny, bitter sweet, which won't leave you indifferent.
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
A complete travesty
I just don't get it. Most Jules Verne books, which I adore, are written like movie scripts. It is just so easy to figure out what a film faithful to a Verne book would look like. Just get a few good actors and a good director, a few special effects and there you go.
But not with this and most adaptations from Jules Verne books. 2 long books are utterly betrayed. Everything is changed, from the type of aircraft, from what happens to it, from the characters that end up in it, from why people decided to get into such a canon ball in the first place when, in the original story, nobody was supposed to fly in it. The witty and amusing Michel Ardan is gone and replaced by a woman stowaway...
Utter drivel. Just read the original and do the film in your head, it is so much better.