This 1996 Oscar-nominee for Best Foreign Film is a whimsical, comic love story that tries to pass itself off as superior foreign filmmaking, but audiences won't be fooled. It begins in Paris, when the elderly Marcelle Ichac (Micheline Presle, the young wife of the
original DEVIL IN THE FLESH) contacts Anton Gogoladze (Jean-Yves Gautier), who's in town mounting an exhibition of paintings from the former Soviet Georgia. She needs help in translating passages from her uncle Pascal 's (Pierre Richard) manuscripts and letters, and through them we're transported
from the gray, cheerless Paris of the present to the vibrant Georgia of the 1920s, where Pascal -- an aging
Released:
1996
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins