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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002)

Drama | 133 minutes
2,39 44 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 133 minuten

Country: France / United Kingdom

Directed by: Claude Lelouch

Starst: Jeremy Irons, Arthur St. Claire and Patricia Kaas

IMDb score: 6,1 (2.474)

Releasedate: 29 May 2002

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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... plot

British gentleman and jewel thief Valentin (Jeremy Irons) armed with bluff and humor has stolen a fortune in jewels. Now that the ground is getting too hot under his feet, Valentin buys a luxury yacht and sails around the world. In Morocco he meets the dazzling jazz singer Jane (Patricia Kaas), who, like him, is on the run from someone or something. Something beautiful develops between Valentin and Jane, but the past seems to catch up with them.

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Well... the beginning is shaky, to say the least, with those ridiculous disguises and a heist involving a trick (the insinuation that someone's pointing a bazooka at the jeweler's shop) that seems to have been ripped straight from Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight, but once the "criminal" scenes are over, the plot becomes more interesting, and because I actually had no idea where the film was going or how it was supposed to end, I stayed hooked until the very end. It's also fun that you're constantly unsure what's real and what's dreamed or fantasized, and I thought the performances of both leads were excellent (yes, Patricia Kaas too). That doesn't change the fact that afterward I was still wondering what I'd actually been watching; The gist, theme, or purpose of this film can't be captured in a single sentence, and with some films that's a plus, while with others I might feel cheated, and I couldn't quite put my finger on the emotion it left me with. Would I have started this without Jeremy Irons' name? (The dub is abominable, by the way; I'm used to Italian films from the '50s and '60s, but with this film, it felt like no effort was made to clarify who was actually talking during a group discussion, and the "truncated" DFW transfer [1.33:1 instead of 2.35:1] didn't help matters either.)

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