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Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (2001)
a missed adaptation of a cult tv serie
Before to be this movie, Belphegor was a novel and a movie (1926) and a tv serie (1965). The producers have done the same disaster that others did with "the avengers" or "wild wild west". Belphegor reminds more "the mummy" (1999) than the novel or the tv serie. Only the Bruno Coulais soundtrack can be saved, and some apparitions of the egyptian ghost in the museeum of Louvre. The ghost in the original version was a woman, here it is really a phantom. Belphegor could have been more suspenful, but lacks of time to create fear and emotion. the script is weak, yet the idea of an egyptian mummy was not bad at all. The tv serie in 1965 was not shot at the louvre (but in studio), this one though having the benefice of the museum, is missed. Some exciting scenes are not enough to do a movie.
A Night in Heaven (1983)
A very good role for Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren is a very good actress, she appears in A NIGHT IN HEAVEN as a beautiful evergreen woman. If the movie itself is not unforgettable, the Warren's part is a thing you always remember. The love scene with actor Christopher Atkins is very well filmed and give the image of a soft erotism. Unfortunately, the movie was not imported in france (I have bought the cassette by amazon). Good surprise too is to hear canadian pop singer Bryan Adams in the score.
Coma (1978)
My all time favourite movie!
I have seen this movie 2 times in 1978, then on tv in 1981 and 1988, and since I got a videotape, in 1990 perhaps 1000 times. I know it by heart, and it developped my interest in composer Jerry Goldsmith. COMA first is a good script, even if discarded from the Robin Cook novel. The movie could have been directed by Alfred Hitchcock (it is even better than the last Hitch movie "family plot"). I have seen many movies in my life and COMA is perhaps one the better suspense ever did. Director M Crichton succeed to establish menace and thrill with things like an isolated building (jefferson institute) or metropolitan (a scene more developped in the novel though). Genevieve Bujold was an excellent choice, 2 years after her good part in Obsession. Each actor is very well choosen, including the short parts (I think to Hari Rhodes, the psychiatrist, for instance). One said the first hour of the movie is boring, I think myself it let you in a familiar and usual atmosphere, and then you are drop in an ocean of dismay and fear. A wonderful movie.