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La Veuve De Saint-Pierre [DVD]

Juliette Binoche (Actor), Daniel Auteuil (Actor), Patrice Leconte (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
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Format Widescreen, PAL
Contributor Gillies Legrand, Claude Faraldo, Michel Duchaussoy, Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Philippe Du Janerand, Frederic Brillion, Reynald Bouchard, Ghyslain Tremblay, Philippe Magnan, Christian Charmetant, Catherine Lascault, Emir Kusturica, Patrice Leconte See more
Language French
Runtime 1 hour and 47 minutes
Colour Colour
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Saint-Pierre, a small island off the Canadian coast, in the year 1850. Fisherman Neel Auguste (Emir Kusturica) is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The authorities send for a guillotine from the mainland, but while waiting for it to arrive, Neel becomes a popular member of the community, forming particularly strong bonds with his custodians, married couple Jean and Pauline (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche). When the guillotine finally arrives the Governor insists that the sentence be carried out, but the people of the island refuse to co-operate.

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The "widow" referred to in the title of La Veuve de Saint-Pierre isn't a woman, but a mechanism--to be exact, the guillotine, (though the title does take on a second meaning in the tragic final moments of the film). We're on the island of Saint-Pierre, a tiny forgotten French colony off the coast of Newfoundland, midway through the 19th century. A senseless drunken murder is committed and the killer is condemned to death, but zut alors!, there's no guillotine on the island. So one must be requested from the slow, bureaucratic authorities in Paris and, once approved, laboriously shipped over. Meanwhile the killer, a simple-minded giant of a man, is placed in the custody of the Captain, whose beautiful wife starts taking an interest in the prisoner.

Director Patrice Leconte has always had an acute feel for place and period--he directed the mordantly witty costume drama Ridicule--and La Veuve vividly captures the sense of remoteness and resentful isolation of this blizzard-swept community. The brooding landscape, all slate-blues and greys, is beautifully framed by Eduardo Serra's camera, and Leconte draws affecting performances from his central trio of actors: Daniel Auteuil, with his intriguingly lopsided face, as the Captain; Juliette Binoche, radiantly vulnerable as his wife; and, in an unexpected but remarkably successful bit of casting, Serbian film director Emir Kusturica as the condemned man. La Veuve de Saint-Pierre may be a touch over-solemn at times, and its message is hardly unexpected; but it's an intelligent, engrossing and richly atmospheric piece of filmmaking. --Philip Kemp

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 g
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Patrice Leconte
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen, PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 47 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 2 Feb. 2001
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy, Philippe Magnan
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Surround)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Vci
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Frederic Brillion, Gillies Legrand
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005957E
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Claude Faraldo
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

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  • Helena A.
    5.0 out of 5 stars My five stars go to many beautiful images of a God's forgotten island and to the ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2017
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    My five stars go to many beautiful images of a God's forgotten island and to the story from beginning to the very end. As for the issues involved in the plot the film is as actual today as back in 1850, perhaps only more disguised today. Tyranic powers can not stand be defied be that the power of a state or an island's governor. Nowadays perhaps we would not find two men standing up to the consequences of their acts and I believe both would have flown away as they had the oportunity of doing, but story happened 150 years ago… Image and sound of DVD quite good.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A geart actors and great story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2019
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    I enjoyed watching the film
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  • P. C. Reynell
    4.0 out of 5 stars an island tragedy
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 May 2007
    If one did not know that the story was based on the record of real events on this small fishermen's island off the coast of Canada it might be difficult to believe in the two main characters, well played as they are by Binoche and Auteil. The delay in procuring a guillotine to execute a murderer provides time for tangled conflicts between love, duty, jealousy, compassion and the law to be explored without resolution. Moments of black comedy are insinuated into the tragedy and the film sticks in the mind. There is some fine widescreen photography.
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  • J. V. Wright
    3.0 out of 5 stars Feels older than 2000
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2014
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    It felt like a film version of a novel, going through the scenes, and losing the believability that a novel can have. The dialogue is a little stilted. The film failed to draw me in as I hoped. But my wife was still tearful at the end, so it can't be that bad.
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  • S. Walker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2017
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    Present
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  • cath b
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2015
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    Fine
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  • K. Joslin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning - you won't forget it in a hurry
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2008
    La Veuve de Saint Pierre was absolutley stunning - I was captivated by the cinematography from the outset. I actually saw this on TV by chance but couldn't switch off , I was so intrigued by the absolute conviction of Juliette Binoche's character in her belief that the convicted man is essentially a good man who has made a tragic error, and the gentleness and passivity of the character of Neel once condemned. I'm not that eloquent at reviewing this, but this is one you will not not forget in a hurry.
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  • Jason Mills
    3.0 out of 5 stars Visually beautiful, narratively interesting.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2004
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    And nicely played. Evokes its world very well and doesn't patronise.
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  • monique dau- cappeau
    5.0 out of 5 stars un beau film noir
    Reviewed in France on 13 September 2019
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    c'était un cadeau d'anniversaire.J'avais vu ce film au cinéma et je crois que j'étais passée à côté.C'est très beau film sur le courage.
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  • Catherine DELBOS
    5.0 out of 5 stars une oeuvre magistrale à découvrir
    Reviewed in France on 16 August 2003
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    J'ai longtemps hésité à voir ce film à sa sortie, les critiques manquaient d'enthousiasme...Heureusement que le DVD existe, avec une qualité de lumière remarquable, indispensable pour restituer la spendeur de ces étendues de glace, et qu'il me permet de découvrir tardivement (avec un enthousiasme ardent! ) cette oeuvre magistrale.Le thème est très intéressant par son aspect romanesque inspiré pourtant d'un fait historique réel, la réalisation est splendide, empreinte d'un grand romantisme tragique par ses paysages solitaires tourmentés et ses passions individuelles déchirantes bien que contenues . Ce film est un des plus personnels de Patrice Leconte parce que les personnages
    y sont possédés par un idéalisme extrême que la réalité conformiste de la vie sociale condamne. Il faut voir aussi l'étonnant Kusturica dans un rôle peu conventionnel. N'hésitez pas à contempler ce film poignant!
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  • Véro
    3.0 out of 5 stars Sans plus.
    Reviewed in France on 4 July 2023
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    Je m'attendais à mieux.
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  • AS
    3.0 out of 5 stars Sobre, classique et beau
    Reviewed in France on 18 June 2016
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    Un militaire amoureux fou de son épouse en poste à St Pierre et Miquelon (Daniel Auteuil, sobre et excellent), une jeune épouse libre et irrésistible (Juliette Binoche), un condamné à mort condamné à attendre l'hypothétique "veuve" (la guillotine) venue de métropole ou des Antilles (Emir Kusturica), confrontés à la bêtise, l'étroitesse d'esprit, les préjugés mesquins des représentants français sur place (dont Michel Duchaussoy). Un beau film d'un classicisme achevé réalisé par Patrice Leconte.
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  • Christelle LUCAS
    3.0 out of 5 stars fim recommandee par une amie
    Reviewed in France on 28 September 2013
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    tres sympa à regarder
    recommandee par une amie
    vieux film mais bon film
    à garder dans sa mediatheque
    bon moment
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