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MCT:September 26, 2008
I'd say that the story is too long to tell it in only 2 hours.
Thera was many moments I didn't like but, I guess, it is the way they wanted to create the atmosphere.
I saw the 2 endings: the first one was more realistic and the other one was really "n'importe quoi".
Good movie about the publicity business and stuff. Watch it if you're interested. -
Just a great movie, you can watch it 100 times and never get bored. The only thing I am interested how F.Begbeder helped the director to realize it.I would like to know.
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MCT:July 1, 2008Et bien ... par où commencer? Tout d'abord, mon collège semble avoir bien aimé le film malgré tout, ce qui n'est vraiment pas le cas pour moi.
Je ne m'attendais à rien de ce film, et devinez quoi? De la magie c'est produit... j'ai rien eu! Il y a des petites choses à comprendre par-ci par-là. Par exemple que la drogue et l'abus du sexe peuvent gâché une vie.
Il y a beaucoup de moment psychédéliques qui suivent les moments où Octaves prend de la cocaïne.
À tous les 5 à 10 plans de vie, nous sommes demandé à nous remettre en contexte. Est-il revenu dans la passé? est-ce réel? est-ce le choix qu'il regret de ne pas avoir fait? Tout ça me rend fou!
De plus, sans avoir lu le livre, je crois qu'il aurait du mettre plus d'emphase sur le problème d'Octave. Octave a le mal de vivre, il n'aime pas sa vie. J'aurai vraiment aimé mieux voir Octave qui s'acharne plus à vouloir quitter son emploi et ruiner l'entreprise, du moins la mettre plus dans l'eau chaude.
De plus, le titre du film n'as vraiment rien à voir. Et le slogan "Tout s'achète" non plus. Quoi qu'on peut déduire que le bonheur d'une personne ne s'achète pas, mais ... rien de plus. Vraiment décevant.
Alors ... à vous de juger! Si vous avez lu le livre et apprécié, allez-y. Sinon ... si vous n'aimez pas les film français comme moi, n'y penser même pas! -
MCT:June 18, 2008
Being set in the publicists's world, don't be surprised by this film's originality. Mixing surreal to realalistic situations(to a drug addict publicist none the less). It makes a pretty strong statement about the overload of publicities and the time and money required to make that world go round. Very intereting, sarcastic, dark-ish and funny! If you want to take a break from big Hollywood Blockbusters, 99 Francs is a really good entertainment!
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MCT:June 4, 2008
wow quelle film j ai vraiment adoré ce film légerement spécial. Octave est vraiment une merde ce qui fait son charme. note allez pas ce film ak vos enfant il vont voudront pu manger de yogour les vierges offensée on oublie ces film:P mais
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MCT:June 3, 2008
j'ai deja vu mieux de la part de jean dujardin, mais pas mal quand même, malgrès que je soi pas un grand fan de begbeder...
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MCT:May 31, 200899 FRANCS (2007)
directed by Jan Kounen
starring Jean Dujardin, Jocelyn Quivrin, Patrick MilleIts quite surprising to think that 99 Francs is only the first adaptation of Frédéric Beigbeder's material into a long feature. In less than ten years, the man became a cult figure in litterature and Ive been wanting to see a film based on his writings for quite some time. For those who dont really know him, well, Beigbeder is kind of a mix of Boris Vian and Charles Bukovski and in the case of 99 francs it wouldnt be too much to add a little of Chuck Palahniuk and maybe even Brett Easton Ellis. Its quite something. To many people 99 francs is the ultimate Beigbeder novel, it is pretty intense indeed but not my personal favorite of his.Octave, Beigbeder's alter ego, is a shallow, hateable, selfish, drug addict and pervert publicist. He's really self-centered and doesnt care about anyone else but him. He is the one who decides what will be cool in two months and embrasses it. Things are about to change, Octave is on the verge of a breakdown, he is working on a publicity campaign for some type of yogurt, but does too much drugs for his own good. Its almost a wonder if he does it cause he likes it or simply cause he thinks it makes him look cool. He meets a young lady, gets her pregnant and ditch her only to realize he might have been in love with her. He takes more drugs, doesnt care for his job, pays a prostitue to spend some time with him, but nothing sexual. That's Octave's life, he lives it to the fullest and goes a bit too far.
99 francs takes a satirical tone and for that very reason it's always over-the-top. Even though it could be sold as a comedy, its so much more than that. Its kind of a critic on materialism but also about how disgustingly overpaid all those people are for not really doing anything. Beigbeder knows his subject cause he was a publicist for ten years.
Jan Kounen directs, and Im glad he didnt hire Vincent Cassell again to play Octave. Kounen is responsible for the cool cop flick Dobermaan and the messed up western Renegades, both starring Cassell. Once again he goes very stylish, he fits in Beigbeder's universe pretty well and manages to put into images what seemed to have been impossible without style. Jean Dujardin is Octave. Far from is more comedic characters from OSS 117 or Brice De Nice. He does very well with the material, growing is hair to look more like Beigbeder himself. He is intense and shows so much more talent than I ever knew he had. He carries the film perfectly and does manage to look sick when he needs to.
99 francs is not really comparable to the book, especially the ending. There is a nice touch here, with some sort of last temptation sequence, its pretty clever and does feel like the ending of Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation of the Christ. Plus, it makes so much sense cause all along the film there are some subtle references to the character thinking of himself as a God-like figure.
I was afraid to be disappointed with this one but in the end, its quite faithful to the book I loved, I mean in tone, the rest could have been altered and it wouldnt have bothered me. I highly recommend it to people who know Beigbeder's work, and to the others, I say start reading.
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MCT:May 27, 2008
Après avoir lu le livre, je dois avouer être un peu déçue du long-métrage. Oui, il est vrai qu'il est bien réalisé, bien monté, bien joué. Cependant, je trouve qu'on ne mets pas assez l'emphase sur le fait que le protagoniste veut absolument quitter son emploi, ou du moins, après y avoir fait de la merde (car c'est de l'intérieur que tout se joue). Alors que dans le film, Octave semble presque apprécier ses conditions de vie... Au moins, le film est aussi intense et satirique que le livre l'était!
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