As an amateur viewer I am frequently surprised by the verdicts from professionals. So here - this mediocre film won the award fro Best Direction. A year later the same award was given to Drive, an even more dubious film.
This film is about burlesque performers on tour. They are middle-aged women on the verge of overweight women, giving their version of strip-tease with a pinch of feminism. They are from the US where their manager Joachim had somewhat success with them and now they are touring through France. Paris is to be the glorious final stop of this trip. However, this Joachim has managed to become enemy with generally speaking everybody in show business. With ever growing desperation he tries to find a hall in Paris, renewing old hostilities on the way and chain-smoking. One afternoon he evens manages to take care of his two sons, at least his is trying to. Ambition is bigger than performance.
The women lack individuality; we see them mainly as a bunch of crackling boa-clad forms. Direction is just plain awful. However as a performer Amalric is doing much better. I never got any sympathy with his character and this is in this case to be entered into the book as a success.
I don't know if this movie does justice to the genre of burlesque; I didn't get any interest in exploring this type of entertainment.
3/10 and a boo.
This film is about burlesque performers on tour. They are middle-aged women on the verge of overweight women, giving their version of strip-tease with a pinch of feminism. They are from the US where their manager Joachim had somewhat success with them and now they are touring through France. Paris is to be the glorious final stop of this trip. However, this Joachim has managed to become enemy with generally speaking everybody in show business. With ever growing desperation he tries to find a hall in Paris, renewing old hostilities on the way and chain-smoking. One afternoon he evens manages to take care of his two sons, at least his is trying to. Ambition is bigger than performance.
The women lack individuality; we see them mainly as a bunch of crackling boa-clad forms. Direction is just plain awful. However as a performer Amalric is doing much better. I never got any sympathy with his character and this is in this case to be entered into the book as a success.
I don't know if this movie does justice to the genre of burlesque; I didn't get any interest in exploring this type of entertainment.
3/10 and a boo.
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