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Camille 2000
Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.
Release : | 1969 |
Rating : | 5.7 |
Studio : | Spear Productions, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Costume Design, |
Cast : | Danièle Gaubert Nino Castelnuovo Eleonora Rossi Drago Roberto Bisacco Massimo Serato |
Genre : | Drama Romance |
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Wow.. Sweet Jesus. Last week i just discovered the psychedelic sound of tame impala and now i seen a picture like this. A blend of vintage- swinging-romance cinema with the setting of Last Year In Marienbad. Big thanks to "torrent" who seed me this love making film. The visual is 10, the story is 6, If this get a remake, the cast must be Camille Rowe with the soundtrack from Pulp, Boo Radley , and other Cafe Del Mar or Shibuyakei.Last week i just discovered the psychedelic sound of tame impala and now i seen a picture like this. A blend of vintage- swinging-romance cinema with the setting of Last Year In Marienbad. Big thanks to "torrent" who seed me this love making film. The visual is 10, the story is 6, If this get a remake, the cast must be Camille Rowe with the soundtrack from Pulp, Boo Radley , and other Cafe Del Mar or Shibuyakei.Last week i just discovered the psychedelic sound of tame impala and now i seen a picture like this. A blend of vintage- swinging-romance cinema with the setting of Last Year In Marienbad. Big thanks to "torrent" who seed me this love making film. The visual is 10, the story is 6, If this get a remake, the cast must be Camille Rowe with the soundtrack from Pulp, Boo Radley , and other Cafe Del Mar or Shibuyakei.
Radley Metzger is not to everybody's taste but this is less extravagant than others of his and avoids the most extreme excesses. Bringing the classic Dumas story up to date was a highly (over?) ambitious task, trying to project the characters and their interactions over such a time span, but it works remarkably well. The futuristic setting looks rather dated now, but it must have been quite convincing at the time as a portrayal of a fin-de-siècle jet-set world and does not adversely the main theme.The chemistry between principals is almost tangible, and most of all the way their emotions are handled by the their eye-expressions in the "jail party" scene. Several supporting characters are outstanding - the malevolent Baron de Varville and the manipulative Olympe provide weight, while seemingly carefree Gaston provide much needed balance.One trick I would have expected from Metzger given his penchant for bizarre symbolism was to have made the opening scene a production of "la Traviata". But he showed his true talent in the closing moments.Best, Metzger remains true to the original story, modifying only as dictated by the modern context and making the translation with skill and sensitivity. From beneath the superficiality and cynicism, a deeply moving film emerges.
The other comments I have read all seem accurate to me (except I don't think Maguerite is necessarily an aristocrat, but the poor protege of one). The innocent nudity, the gorgeous photography and glamorous Roman locations, the capturing of a moment of social freedom in the sixties, are all superb. Although the director has a reputation for making exploitation films, at least in the year 2000 it doesn't seem to me that this film qualifies as one, since the nudity, sex and drugs are relatively tame, and the film now reads as a serious dramatic effort, at least to me.What I found fascinating about the film was the portrayal of the progress of the emotional relationship of Armand and Marguerite- it covers how they met, love won and lost several times, their emotional conflicts and life choices as a result of their feelings for each other. In this it seems to me highly realistic, perceptive and insightful. It captures the emotional life of the very wealthy, young and beautiful elite- joy, confusion, hedonism, love and also despair.It follows the evolution of the relationship in such detail that, at times, I found the film dragging a bit, but this was a minor problem for me compared to the joy of seeing such a deep exploration of their relationship. Instead of the single roller-coaster ride of snipped-down Hollywood fare, we enter fully into another world by dwelling there through several different plot climaxes.
Camille 2000, which could be called the first of the modern, adult films, was among those trendsetting, forward-looking pictures that marked the end of the 1960's. That said, it's not a fantastic film, but fairly well done. The pill popping, hard driving female of the film is asked, at the opening of the picture, whether she ever comes down. "Not if I can help it," she replies, tossing another handfull of drugs into her mouth. In a sense, that's the theme of the film; lurid and risque for the time, but somewhat tame compared to today's endless stream of mindless porn films.