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Merci Docteur Rey
2002
An Opera Diva reveals to her gay son that his father is not really dead but left her for another man. However earlier that evening her son had seen him murdered while he was hiding in a cupboard. This turn of events drives him to therapy, but unbeknownst to him the doctor he is seeing is dead, and being impersonated by one of .. Read more
| Starring | Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Stanislas Merhar, Bulle Ogier |
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| Director | Andy Litvak |
| Genres | Comedy, Gay/Lesbian |
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Merci Docteur Rey
An Opera Diva reveals to her gay son that his father is not really dead but left her for another man. However earlier that evening her son had seen him murdered while he was hiding in a cupboard. This turn of events drives him to therapy, but unbeknownst to him the doctor he is seeing is dead, and being impersonated by one of her patients...
| Starring | Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Stanislas Merhar, Bulle Ogier |
|---|---|
| Director | Andy Litvak |
| Studio | PARASOL PICTURES RELEASING |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Gay/Lesbian |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Oct 2004 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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Executive produced by Ismail Merchant, Andrew Litvack's debut feature is a gross miscalculation that is woefully over-written and shamefully overplayed. Dianne Wiest is primarily culpable, hamming it up as the opera diva whose return to the Parisian stage is blighted by the murder of her ex-husband (Simon Callow). She's blithely unaware that her gay son (Stanislas Merhar) witnessed the crime and is seeking the killer while hiding out with the skittish dubbing studio actress — Jane Birkin — that he met in a dead psychiatrist's office. Aside from a faintly amusing running joke involving Vanessa Redgrave, this is pretentious, preposterous and embarrassing.
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Merchant-Ivorys previous jaunt to Paris, last years Le Divorce, lurched queasily between smug farce and... read more on Time Out
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19 out of 24 people found this review helpful
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running on empty
This is one of the silliest, shallowest, most trivial films you're likely to see -- ever!
That any member of the cast san see this on any level other than the deepest embarrassment is hard to conceive.
But it's not even funny. Merchant-Ivory have specialised in superficial fluff, and if they ever wanted to undermine that commonly-held opinion, they CERTAINLY haven't succeeded with this unspeakable nonsense.
DO NOT waste your time with this; it's not even amusingly smart, and a Stella Artois TV ad has more significance. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Loved it
Really didn't know what to expect when i rented this movie having read the mixed reviews - but I loved it. It does seem a bit like a French farce with confused identities, convoluted sub plots, but is very easy watching, very enjoyable and very funny - if a bit mad! Great cast - Jane Birkin playing a mad cap character who is mistaken for her own now deceased psychoanalyst! One movie that, at the end, I had wished it were longer. Rent it and make up your own mind....
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