The Return of Martin Guerre / Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
DVDRip | MKV | 704 x 400 | x264 @ 2023 Kbps | 123 min | 2,22 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Crime
DVDRip | MKV | 704 x 400 | x264 @ 2023 Kbps | 123 min | 2,22 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Crime
The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Depardieu returns after nine years. He looks like her husband and sounds like her husband, and certainly has a working knowledge of the couple's prior relationship. Still, neither Baye nor her neighbors can shake the notion that Depardieu is an imposter–especially since he's a much nicer and more responsible person than the man who marched off to war so long ago. Matters come to a head when the local magistrate sentences Depardieu to hang for his own murder. Return of Martin Guerre was the principal source for an American film, Sommersby (1993).
This definitive version of the story of Martin Guerre (remade in English with Richard Gere and Jodie Foster as 'Sommersby'; and musicalised in a misguided version by Boublil and Schoenberg) is amongst French actor Gérard Depardieu's greatest roles. As the bluff, romantic, sensitive soldier who returns to the village after years away (or does he?) he manages to provoke all sorts of reactions from his other on-screen characters as well as the film's audience.
As Bernadette de Rols, the wife seeking love and companionship, Nathalie Baye is superb; while a large and talented cast give flesh to the remaining characters. I defy anyone to see this adaptation and not be moved by it; try and see in the cinema, where it undoubtedly has more power than on a small screen; and avoid the version dubbed into English. 'Le Retour de Martin Guerre' need to survive with its language and poetry intact.
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The Return of Martin Guerre / Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
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