Effroyables jardins Reviews

Basically, it is once again one of those really obscure French movies which almost no one has seen here on Listal. If I recall correctly, I saw this movie at my aunt's when I was on holiday in France. My wife was pretty sick (food poisoning or something like that) and while she was recovering, I ended up watching a whole bunch of dvds my aunt owned. Anyway, the director Jean Becker could be actually considered as some kind of French Terrence Malick. Indeed, after making a few movies in 60's, he stopped for 17 years, made one movie ('L'été meurtrier'), stopped again for 12 years, made another movie ('Élisa') and since 1999, he has been pretty productive, directing no less than 7 features in the process. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, it was not bad. The other day, I was thinking that WWII basically represents for France about the same thing as the Vietnam war represents for the USA. Indeed, it was the last war which took place in France and it has greatly traumatized the country. As a result, just like the Vietnam war for the American directors, WWII has always been an everending source of inspiration for the French film makers and you end up with many movies varying in quality and genres. So, this movie deals with WWII and it is honestly a small, rather simple story and even though, it was alright, it was nothing really amazing and it was rather forgettable. To conclude, I still think it is a decent watch and it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.