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Release Date: 03 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: |
A La Mode Reviews
A mix of comedy and passion does not make a movie a success!
This film will not make the list of 100 best films ever, nor the top 200 or 300, but the film does make a decent effort to make you laugh. Overall, it is a decent film without any break through performances. The movie is the story of Fausto, an orphan who becomes an apprentice to an established tailor. Fausto, however, has dreams of becoming a fashion designer, particulary for women. Fausto's friend in the film provides much of comical relief, and is the only character who seems to have any depth.
If you have a couple of hours to waste and need a good laugh, then you may want to watch this film. If you are looking for a good foriegn or french film however, I do not recommend you rent/buy this film.
Yet another saucy French coming-of-age comedy
"A La Mode" is a fairly standard coming-of-age movie, without much of a French twist. Our hero is young Fausto (Ken Higelin), who is bullied for a while in the orphanage but eventually makes friends with Raymond (François Hauteserre), who can fart Beethoven's Fifth. Eventually Fausto is apprenticed to a Jewish tailor named Mietek, who adopts the two boys. Fausto turns out to have a natural flair for creating outlandish fashions, but his attention is on Tonie (Jean Yanne), the daughter of the local mechanic. In the end Fausto manages to combine both of his loves, dressing up the woman he loves. This is a funny film and certainly has touching moments, but there are so many of these types of films on both sides of the ocean that it is hard for any of them to stand out.
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