Alicia I love this movie so much

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

morrison-dylan-fan Taking a look at a DVD sellers page,I spotted a strange-sounding title starring Anna Karina.Since I've only read about the work she did during the French New Wave era,I decided that it was the perfect time to give Karina the ring.The plot:Leaving the countryside for Paris, veterinarian Hugues starts to think about finding a woman to get married to,who will helpfully own a big enough house for him to run his own private practice (aww..how romantic!) Meeting via dating agency,Hugues soon gets married to Jeanne and moves into her house.Finding Hugues to spend more time with the animals than with her,Jeanne starts to play games on her husband,which leads to Hugues sinking deeper into his small world,and being suspicious that Jeanne will soon fly away with the birds. View on the film:Playing a major part behind the scenes by co-writing the screenplay and writing the novel it is based on, Jean-Claude Carrière gives a creepy performance as vet Hugues. Looking stuffy in his woollen jumper and mangled beard, Carrière chips away at Hugues work with animals to reveal an obsession with no room for compromise that is verging on madness. Radiating beauty, Anna Karina shows a great care in vividly displaying each of Jeanne,whose initial delight in "pushing" Hugues Karina hits with a real relish that gradually crumbles into an eerie sense of doubt which Karina tangles Jeanne in,as Hugues starts to react to Jeanne's games in a dangerously unpredictable manner.Bringing Carrière's own novel to the vets,the screenplay by co- writer/director Christian de Chalonge and star Carrière entwines a peculiar,unique atmosphere. Bringing a touch of mystery to the film with a fragmented exposure of the disease seeping to the core of Hughes and Jeanne "difficult" relationship,the writers give the title a strikingly odd Sci-Fi mood,as Hugues mumbled cassette recordings and his nihilistic-slanted outlook on the future of the human race being the pure dreams of a mad scientist.Burning the midnight oil at Hugues vet surgery,director Christian de Chalonge & cinematographer Alain Derobe brilliantly make the skin crawl with grime covered walls and a thick musk tapping into the eerie Sci-Fi atmosphere of everything being slightly off-centre. Scrubbing dirt on the screen,Chalonge takes a wonderfully sudden turn into poetically haunting Sci-Fi,as the wedding bells ring out for all time.

christopher-underwood Very strange but good looking film from little known director, Christian de Challonges which was a pretty ambitious project to take on but these were strange times in cinema, especially French cinema. Jean-Claude Carriere stars but also wrote the screenplay which is based upon his own novel. Indeed he was better known as writer and veteran of very many screenplays including several for Luis Bunuel and some of those he also appeared. Anna Karina, best known for her work with Goddard, is wonderful here, radiant throughout. Carriere is also most effective as the obsessive veterinary surgeon and if he seems to only have one expression it is a worrying one. Creepy and worrying is the name of the game here as the couple's Parisian is gradually filled with animals and insects as the two humans become more and more suspicious of each other. Ultimately unsatisfying, the film is nevertheless compelling and well worth a watch.

jean-paul-lehmann This very fine movie has a sad ending.The previous posts asked what the tape record was. Basically it is "I never told her that I loved her"But there is a technical goof in that final shot. This is a cassette recorder, buried in sand, and looping while failing on this sentence.It is possible with a vinyl record, but NOT on a normal cassette player, even if it is badly damaged, the tape cannot loop.Beside this, the story builds up from the beginning in a funny and mysterious way. The hunt for a wife with a 'Large apartment' and a closet is doted with humorous comments, and the various patients are more bizarre as the script goes on.

Bob Taylor Christian de Chalonge works mainly in TV now, but his few films showed a great imagination. Who can forget Docteur Petiot, the mad doctor of Vichy France who killed Jews trying to escape the trains bound for death camps? Just the musical score--that saw--was enough to make me doubt my sanity. L'Alliance is a beautiful fantasy film that should really be reissued on DVD.Anna Karina is a newly-wed wealthy woman who finds her husband is spying on her, following her around on shopping trips. That he is a veterinarian who is slowly building a zoo in her lovely house is also ample cause for concern. Her curiosity--and mounting suspicion of his motives--one day lead her to open a box, allowing a snake to escape. The parallel with Adam and Eve is gracefully worked out. This film is full of lovely details: the women who bring their weird pets to the vet look pretty strange themselves; the vet has a melancholic expression that never changes, it's as though he has taken on the personality of one of the animals. I was more impressed with this one than with effects-ridden films like Jurassic Park or The Island of Dr Moreau.