The Story of Marie and Julien

2003
6.8| 2h30m| en
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Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.

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Pierre Grise Productions

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Interesteg What makes it different from others?
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
gridoon2018 Unlike the Jacques Rivette film I watched yesterday, "Love On The Ground", I didn't much enjoy "Histoire de Marie et Julien". Although it's about 25 minutes shorter, it actually felt much longer. It's a morose, monotonous, humorless and deliberately pedestrian despite its metaphysical / fantasy elements film. It almost seems designed to allow you to take a little nap every once in a while without missing much. But be sure to be awake for the film's one striking image - it comes near the very end and of course I won't spoil it here (it has something to do with tears). ** out of 4.
kendallinsd I watch a lot of foreign language films, and appreciate that many of them don't follow typical cinematic formulas. I've really enjoyed the majority of the foreign films I've seen; I think this is the only one I really did not like. I had high hopes for the film, but it moves soooo slowly, with so much time spent getting nowhere in terms of plot or character development, that it became a chore to get to the end.Fortunately, I was somewhat rewarded for watching to the end, because the storyline became relatively more interesting in the last 10 or 15 minutes of the movie. Unfortunately, by then I had lost interest in the characters, so the mystery surrounding them lost its 'punch'. I found the characters themselves to be uncompelling. The actors' performances didn't draw me in; even the lovely Ms. Beart failed to pull me into the story.I was literally shocked to see that the first rating I came across after viewing this film was a 10. I guess this is the kind of film you either love or hate. I rarely write reviews here, but I felt compelled to warn others that they might want to bypass this film. It is easily the most boring film I've seen in years.
Franchini Why do certain people that go to the movies think that (their) being bored is important for the destiny of the world? Why do they keep punching us with their problems of boredom?Can't they understand that, to share something with the others, it's important to have some ideas (just a small one, please...) about the movie itself? Do they think that when they proclaim their boredom they are giving to the world some kind of undisputed law?Is it so difficult to understand that the Rivette work cannot be understood by the rules of mediocre entertainment? Is it so painful to address the simple idea that Rivette keeps filming the mystery of love? And that he doesn't want to bore us with the vulgar ideas of a vulgar TV-movie?
diesel-magoo This film is excruciating Dull I am in love with Emmanuel Beart and that is the only reason I watched this leaden film to the end and even then I had to use the fast forward button numerous times. There is one scene lasting 10 minutes where absolutely nothing happens... a man cuts some bread brushes the floor looks at a cat scratches his nose..... call me a Philistine but that is just self indulgent arty farty widdle. And there are numerous other scenes of people opening doors going in to rooms looking out windows mending clockscut this Film in half and you lose no character development no plot turnsI'm looking forward to the Producers cut the directors cut has an extra 90 Min's of a man ironing his clothes

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