King of Hearts
WW1 but with stank on it
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 12, 2018
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alan Bates | |
Performer: | Geneviève Bujold, Micheline Presle, Julien Guiomar, Marc Dudicourt, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault & Pierre Brasseur | |
Directed by | Phillippe De Broca | |
Screenwriting by | Daniel Boulanger & Maurice Bessy | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Lhomme |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
The outrageous comical fable became a sleeper cult hit, that offers more spectacle than story.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
An engaging and contrived oddity - like a U-certificate Marat/Sade - exoticised by the spectacle of non-English-speaking actors dubbed in order to play Scottish soldiers.
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Guardian
It's the kind of comic allegory about war that depends on muddleheadedness in order to make much sense, but if you're feeling muddleheaded, you might find yourself charmed and enchanted by the conceit.
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Chicago Reader
The most cloying of cult films.
Village Voice
Rating: 3.5/5 --
De Broca delivers potent satire in a manner both skilful and charming.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 3/4 --
Its appeal is easy to understand, even if its themes and characters err on the superficial side.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 3/5 --
Its Fellini-esque images and satirical plot are never dull, but their 1960s wackiness now seems gratingly forced, as does the film's faith in the idea that insanity is merely free-spiritedness.
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Sunday Times (UK)
Product Description:
One of the first films to explore the insanity of war, this 1967 French farce drew a literal connection between the clinically insane and the hawkish mentality of war. The message of director Phillipe de Broca's masterpiece resonated with its Vietnam-era audience and was proclaimed one of the most powerful political statements of the sixties art house scene. KING OF HEARTS takes place at the end of World War I in the French village of Marville. Discovering that a German explosive has been set within its environs, British troops send one of their own, Private Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates), on a reconnaissance mission into the town. There he discovers that the only remaining inhabitants are the patients in a mental hospital who promptly dub Plumpick their lost king. As he tries to lead them out of danger, they take over the town in an exuberant celebration. Despite its strong antiwar stance, KING OF HEARTS is a sweetly comedic work. This is primarily evident in the innocent romance between the bewildered Plumpick and the tender mental patient Coquelicot, played by a radiantly youthful Genevieve Bujold.
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- Sales Rank: 53,689
- UPC: 741952839293
- Shipping Weight: 0.19/lbs (approx)
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