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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9781572522107
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1572522100
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: January 14, 1998
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1983
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
While many ugly Americans best remember Gerard Depardieu from late-'80s Hollywood fluff (and the less said about Green Card the better), his art-house reputation as a legitimate, conscientious actor was more than mere hype. The solid Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre) stands as Depardieu's personal high-water mark: here, he was handed a well-written, nuanced role--one inviting a balanced display of intelligence, charismatic cool, and pure passion--and he makes the most of it. The narrative, set in medieval France during the Hundred Years' War, follows the alleged homecoming of a soldier after many years of absence. His wife (a structurally difficult role to portray with any skill, but played gamely here by the fetching Nathalie Baye) finds him such an improvement--both in the sack and otherwise--from the husband who left for the front that she ignores the villagers' suspicions that he is an impostor. The costumes and scenery are quite a bit better, and more historically responsible, than what we've all come to expect from period drama, and the logical flaws and obvious questions begged by the plot mechanics are smoothed out by director Daniel Vigne's steady hand with story art and cinematic pacing. The film was remade in English, and updated to the Reconstruction, in 1993 as Sommersby, starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster. See this original instead. --Miles Bethany
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Great story with a twist. I found out about this movie from a high school French teacher who uses this movie in class because of the speed and clarity of the French dialog. Highly recommend, particularly if you are a student of the language.
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I saw this film on VHS back in college, and can't say its release on DVD does a lot in terms of enhancing the experience of seeing it again, but it's an interesting story: up to a point. I know it's based on an actual event but were this a novel it'd be one of those of which I'd say it would've made a far better short story.
The question of whether the man who returns home from war in the 16th century is actually the same long-lost Martin who left his family years before, or an imposter, ... Read More
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Natalie Davis collaborated with the director Daniel Vigne on his film. Davis' story affords her audience a rare glimpse into the world of peasant life in sixteenth century France. Historically, there are only a few times when the everyday lives of the lower social classes receive comment in history or literature. Students of the humanities have only a few primary source books to examine. The Domesday Book is a collection of census records from eleventh century England. The Canterbury Tales are a fourteenth ... Read More
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1560. Jean de Coras, Toulouse Parliament ` s Counselor, undertakes a rigorous investigation in Artigat, a small French village about the story of an imposture.
Martin Guerre, in 1542 married with just thirteen years old with Bertrande de Rols of twelve. After a brief familiar incident, he abandons his family (including a child) and departs to the promising adventures around the several religious Wars which razed Europe.
Eight long years have elapsed sifting over the family the hardest ... Read More
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When I first viewed The Return of Martin Guerre in a Washington, D.C. arthouse cinema when it originally came out, it became firmly etched in my psyche as one of the most memorable films I had ever seen. Over time -- and throughout numerous viewings of my own copy of the film purchased several years ago -- my reverence for this film has only increased. Yes, it introduced me to the prodigious talents of Mr. Depardieu. Yes, it has an intriguing plot with a passionate and surprising, yet, somehow inevitable conclusion. ... Read More
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