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The Last Days of Chez Nous [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Commentary, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Gillian Armstrong directed this quietly bittersweet and coldly ironic examination of the death throes of a crumbling marriage. Set in the lush summer light of Sydney, the film examines the dying marriage of Beth (Lisa Harrow), a middle-aged writer living with her French husband J.P. (Bruno Ganz) and her teenage daughter Annie (Miranda Otto). Beth and J.P. are maintaining their marriage through a delicate thread of disinterest and patronizing that is torn asunder with the arrival of Beth’s younger sister Vicki (Kerry Fox). Along with the arrival of Vicki, Beth and J.P. take in a boarder, a clean-cut teen named Tim (Kiri Paramore). These two new additions to the family infuse the home with a new vitality, but that only holds the dissolution of the marriage in abeyance for a time. In an effort to make peace with her father (Bill Hunter), Beth takes him on a trip to the outback, where she believes she might be able to communicate with him. With Beth gone, J.P. and Vicki have an affair, and they abandon the family to start life on their own. Beth, now alone, feels a sense of liberation and purpose and begins to start her life anew. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Australian Film Institute, Berlin International Film Festival,
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This is classic Gillian Armstrong giving us a snapshot of inner-urban life in a Sydney home one long humid summer.br /br /JP (played brilliantly by Bruno Ganz who was so memorable in Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire”) is a Frenchman far from home. With his marriage to Beth (a woman whose vitality seems to have been snuffed out by marriage) already under stress, it takes only the arrival of Beth’s wild and vibrant sister Vicki to send everything spinning out of control.br /br /Vicki is Beth mirror image – but she is a reflection of what Beth once was. Beth longs to be wild and alive once more but that can never be. JP sees in Vicki what attracted him to Beth – and alone and longing for something that he can’t find Down Under, JP drifts apart from Beth as she does from him.br /br /But Beth has another problem – unresolved issues with her father (played by Bill Hunter who seems to be everywhere in Australian movies). Her father has all the personality of a prune, and won’t admit his oldest child is now a grown woman with a mind of her own.br /br /Beth, played in a deeply stressed manner by beautiful NZ actress Lisa Harrow, finds is being tossed about from the roles of mother, daughter and wife all at once – and she’s the one that is left to suffer.br /br /Truly a brilliant film, with a young Miranda Otto in the role of Beth’s all-observing but resilient daughter, this is a touching film that captures much of the tension of our lives that will often cannot identify.
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