Valentin Valentin

2014 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Crime

1
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 304 304

Director

Pascal Thomas Photo
Pascal Thomas

Top cast

Marie Gillain Photo
Marie Gillain as Claudia Livorno
Geraldine Chaplin Photo
Geraldine Chaplin as Jane
Alexandra Stewart Photo
Alexandra Stewart as Sylvia
Karolina Conchet Photo
Karolina Conchet as Lys Tigré
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940.02 MB
1280*692
French 2.0
NR
fr  us  ar  de  ro  es  
25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 12
1.7 GB
1920*1038
French 2.0
NR
fr  us  ar  de  ro  es  
25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jorgeeduardo1961 9 / 10

Entertaining adaptation of Ruth Rendell's "Tiger Lilies"

"Valentín Valentín", directed by Pascal Thomas, is a charming, breezy, film meditation on apartment buildings and their denizens, love requited and love lost, and murder. Dame Geraldine Chaplin is marvellous in a supporting role as a happy -if sometimes obnoxious- alcoholic, and all of the French cast deliver top-notch performances. In contrast to Chabrol's unrelentingly dark satire of French class conflict in "La Cérémonie" -another Rendell adaptation-, Thomas emphasizes discrete moments of joy through art -drawing, song, the playing of instruments, dance-; the sometimes reticent but real solidarity between neighbours and friends; and the melancholy of what might have been. Some moments of the film have a hint of Woody Allen, others resonate with the strong French film tradition of light but sharply-pointed social comedy. A delightful divertimento, with a murder mystery to bot!
Reviewed by jorgeeduardo1961 9 / 10

"Valentín Valentín", directed by Pascal Thomas, is a charming, breezy, film meditation on apartment buildings and their denizens, love requited and love lost, and murder. Dame Geraldine Chaplin is marvellous in a supporting role as a happy -if sometimes obnoxious- alcoholic, and all of the French cast deliver top-notch performances. In contrast to Chabrol's unrelentingly dark satire of French class conflict in "La Cérémonie" -another Rendell adaptation-, Thomas emphasizes discrete moments of joy through art -drawing, song, the playing of instruments, dance-; the sometimes reticent but real solidarity between neighbours and friends; and the melancholy of what might have been. Some moments of the film have a hint of Woody Allen, others resonate with the strong French film tradition of light but sharply-pointed social comedy. A delightful divertimento, with a murder mystery to bot!
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