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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Please let me know drôle de drame has English subtitles. I would like to see it.
(I was raise in a Mexican barrios. I can barely speak Spanish. <except, of course, cursing>. I took two year of German in college. It's far worse. I just can't seem to be a polyglot. I want to be....)
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apparently amazon
has it with english subtitles. it doesn't look like the same version i have (it's not the same cover i mean) but i can't remember whether mine had subtitles or not... and obviously i can't check right now.
and in case you're still wondering whether it's worth your time, here are the reviews :
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Amazon.com
As its title suggests, Drôle de Drame is a very droll drama indeed. It's a farce, to be specific, deftly handled by director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, eight years before the release of their masterpiece, Children of Paradise. Surprisingly, this was the only box-office flop of Carné's early career, later recognized as a classic ahead of its time, comparable to American screwball comedy but subtler in wit and delivery. Set in Edwardian London and illustrating the absurd lengths that the social elite will go to preserve their privileged status, it follows the exploits of M. Molyneux (Michel Simon), who's accused of murdering his wife by his cousin (Louis Jouvet), a self-righteous bishop who denounces popular crime novels written by... well, it's best not to give too much away. Plot twists, romance, and an elegant parade of comedic circumstances make Drôle de Drame a real treat for Anglophiles, Francophiles, and cinephiles alike. No wonder critic Pauline Kael called it "Dadaist frivolity, with sequences one giggles over happily for years." --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
From the creators of Children of Paradise comes a screwball comedy about a vegetarian serial killer. When the Archbishop of Bedford suspects his eccentric cousin of poisoning his wife and disposing of the body, he sets off a wild and uproarious series of events spurred on by an upper-class disdain of scandal. A wonderful farce set in Edwardian London, this decidedly French comedy owes more to artifice and comic twists of plot reminiscent of René Clair and films like Le Million than the tragic pessimism found in the later work of Carné and Prévert such as Quai des Brumes or Children of Paradise.
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and of course i recommend it enthusiastically.
(she better give me my dvd back soon.
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