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IMDb member since October 1999
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Le huitième jour (1996)
wonderful, heartbreaking movie
10 October 1999 - 1 out of 4 users found this review helpful.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I loved Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. This movie is in some ways similar, but makes Rain Man seem artificial, shallow, unemotional, and trivial by comparison.
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Les misérables (1995)
The most beautiful and effective adaptation I've seen
10 October 1999 - 6 out of 9 users found this review helpful.
This movie is the truest adaptation of the book I've ever seen. The movie is actually set during World War II, with a new plot, but one that echoes and follows the book constantly in surprising ways. Claude Lelouche is an ideal Valjean--with the natural, powerful goodness Victor Hugo intended and none of the cloying or artificially heroic goodness Valjeans in movies often have. Whether you've read the novel or not, this is a wonderful, emotionally wrenching movie, worth watching.
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