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L'Ennui Details

1998

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Starring	Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, Robert Kramer
Director	Cedric Kahn
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

L'Ennui

Based on the novel of Alberto Moravia, "L'Ennui" tells us the story of a philosphy teacher (Charles Berling) who, just separated from his wife, meets the young and buxom Cecilia, former model of a painter who died making love to her. As their relationship grows, we fall with Berling into despair (when he is unable to quit her even if he wants to) and even jealousy. The famous scholar cannot find relief in his knowledge, nor in his irritated former wife and is therefore condemned to wander alone, following this woman, directly out from a Renoir painting, he love and despise at the same time and his depiction is really living.

Starring	Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, Robert Kramer, Alice Grey, Maurice Antoni
Director	Cedric Kahn
Studio	FUSION MEDIA
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 57 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: French
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1998 To Rent: DVD: 16 Apr 2001

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- Jaded after the failure of his marriage, Martin (Berling) has 'given up love', and taken to his car. On one voyeuristic... read more on Time Out
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  Tedious film about an affair between a university lecturer and a 17-year-old girl. He becomes increasingly obsessed and jealous. Some mildly diverting sex ... read more »
  
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  Bed and bored
  
  Whilst this strives for a cinéma vérité feel, this is Parisian Bo-ho chic of the most vacuous kind positing the kind of afternoon angst ... read more »
  
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  Dire, pretentious and boring
  
  Man going though some sort of emotional crisis starts a relationship with a woman who modelled for a painter. The couple have frequent bouts of sex that are ... read more »
  
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  I found it hard to sympathise with the main character yet experienced a strange compulsion to watch the film through to the end to see if he had the bottle to ... read more »
  
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  Based on the novel of Alberto Moravia, "L'Ennui" tells us the story of a philosphy teacher (Charles Berling) who, just separated from his wife, meets the young and buxom Cecilia, former model of a painter who died making love to her. As their relationship grows, we fall with Berling into despair (...