Cousin Jules
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 3, 2014
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Cinema Guild
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Dominique Benicheti | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre-William Glenn |
Entertainment Reviews:
[An] extraordinary documentary chronicling the everyday routines of an elderly blacksmith and his wife...
Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A uniquely rewarding movie.
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New York Post
Rating: B --
A simple picture, but beautifully symbolic and endlessly fascinated with its subjects, looking to impart an appreciation for routine and its rhythmic elements, questing to manufacture screen poetry along the way.
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Blu-ray.com
Rating: B --
A moving lyrical meditative documentary.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The viewing experience is immersive and magical as the late filmmaker Dominique Benicheti, a film academic who had taught at Harvard and had a deep interest in technical advances for cinema, insisted upon his work being seen under maximum conditions.
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Film Journal International
"Cousin Jules" is in many ways a wonder to see and hear, but there is less to it than meets the eye.
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New York Times
Focusing on archaic farming rituals to the exclusion of nearly everything else, the film has virtually no dialogue, but each sight and sound is monumental, communicating an entire way of life.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
This unusual documentary chronicles five years in the grim, silent life of an elderly French couple (the husband was nearly eighty). In it, not one word is spoken. They live in a rural area, and the film follows their daily routine in extraordinary detail. Although the man's wife died during the filming, the production continued on and show the old man doing his chores alone, awaiting his own death.
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Product Info
- UPC: 881164000781
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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