SYNOPSICS
Le règne de la beauté (2014) is a French,English movie. Denys Arcand has directed this movie. Éric Bruneau,Mélanie Thierry,Melanie Merkosky,Marie-Josée Croze are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2014. Le règne de la beauté (2014) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Luc leads a peaceful life with his wife Stephanie, a sports instructor, in the wonderful region of Charlevoix in Quebec. A splendid wife, beautiful house, faithful friends, hunting, skiing, hockey - a perfect life, one would say. But it is marked by the severe depression that hit Stephanie and she is enamored of Melissa, a nurse and friend of the couple and she is the wife of Isabelle, a doctor. While honored in Paris for his career as an architect, he accidentally meets Lindsay, a woman he once knew -met while he was in Toronto to participate on a jury. He remembers their story of love fulgurate they lived on two nights. Caught in a triangle of emotions, he puts everything in jeopardy to pursue her as his seemingly-perfect life begins to fall apart.
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Le règne de la beauté (2014) Reviews
It could be 1 or 10 in any case everybody will disagree
The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions were the only two movies about a group of unlikable people talking and talking and talking that I enjoyed repeatedly and still once in a while I watch them again. I enjoyed other Arcand movies too; so I can state that is one of my preferred directors and found his subjects matters quite interesting and his approach original. Well "La Regne de la Beaute" (which translates in "The reign of Beauty") is not the case. The whole movie on precious scenery after the other; beautiful people in each frame; perfectly dressed and even the music is beautiful; but what was the point of all that?. The intellectual (but overall shallow) bourgeois French / Canadian society it is one of his preferred subjects; as it is the declining health care in Canada (or at least in Quebec); but none of these themes are quite developed here. The infidelity of a young successful architect without considering his wife's slow descending into madness; could be an statement about a society that became so cold that family is no longer important (none of the characters has kids and nobody really seems to care about infidelities or jealously ) At the end is about a year in the life of a group of people with lots of personal issues resolved in an absolute cold manner. I will perhaps seat through the movie again; but at first sight colder than all the snow in Quebec.
Visually Gorgeous and What Else?
I saw this a couple of hours ago and am thinking about it now. First, it left me wanting to visit Quebec City, especially during the winter. The city and its surrounding countryside looked beautiful. Some of the homes in the film, which after all is about architects, are stunning. But mainly it's the story about one ambitious young architect who actually says that love is not the be all and end all in life. He lives this philosophy in that he loves more than one woman at once and chooses not to be faithful. The ending of the film was sort of odd in that it just happened, without showing how, and we the viewers have to assume what happened. In that assumption is confirmation of the film's meaning, i.e., Luc had to pursue his lust/love of the moment, though that didn't mean that he no longer "loved" the previous ones. He just couldn't stay with them for he needs the new and novel. He is described as ambitious with regard to his architecture, and I'd say he is with his loves, too, in that he seems to keep trying for someone new and more beautiful. Though Luc is portrayed as gentle in his personality, and subtle, the truth is he's a selfish macho person who constantly plays sports - six different ones in the film - not including hunting, in which he shoots geese, and can't help but fall in love and get involved with beautiful women. And, he appears happy, despite some intimation of guilt; he gets over it pretty well. He is the true powerful, white male, enjoying the best that life has to offer.
True blue Denys Arcand movie
Most critics have scorned at this movie for not being the usual politically, critically engaged Denys Arcand movie. Arcand started by exposing the many ills of a corrupt and dominant liberal (in the economic sense) society, used a lot of sarcasm in later movies to depict the ills of large state bureaucracies. This movie makes no exception as he stages architecture juries and again Quebec's health system. I do not agree with some of his reductionist statements, but I do love all of his movies for being pure art. "Le règne de la beauté" is by far his most achieved artistic statement, whereas he brings out the beauty of all the characters,making them so endearing, and of course showing the best sceneries across the four seasons in the province he truly loves.
It had low expectations and it was better than I thought
Being a huge fan of ''Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain'' and of ''Les Invasions Barbares'' I was anticipating this film to be pretty awesome until I read reviews that were saying that even though the images are absolutely stunning, the movie was empty. Well I definitely agree about the images, but the film wasn't empty at all. It was a realistic look at the life of a beautiful, successful young adult. The characters are ''modern'' if I can use such a term. They admit to cheat on their partner without any guilt like it was normal and I feel a little social criticism on Arcand's part. It's like the film Nashville, there's not really a story, but some observations by the director. I don't compare this movie with Nashville, but I think you get the point. It's a beautifully shot realistic view into a young successful architect life
Simply unbearable
I rarely see movies without checking reviews. At a minimum, I check IMDb ratings. If I had seen a 5.5, I would've passed. Instead I found myself the third person who walked out of a rather small theater. There may have been more after me that walked out. Spoilers: how can I stay and watch a movie where the main character sees his wife kiss another woman and doesn't say anything..., ever? Or when that same main character mentions to his wife that he has had an affair, and the only question she has for him is how many nights and then she moves on in conversation as if it was nothing. Or when the main character mentions to 6 friends in a men's shower after tennis that he has had an affair and they all move on as if nothing out of the ordinary was said? This is contrived. I couldn't watch more than an hour of it.