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Overview
Derborence is a French film first released in 1985,
directed by Francis Reusser.
The film is based on a novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and stars Isabel Otero, Jacques Penot, Maria Machado, Jean-Marc Bory and Bruno Cremer.
Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.
Synopsis
Shortly after getting married to Thérèse, a young alpine farmer, Antoine,
goes mountain climbing with his uncle Séraphin. There is an avalanche and
it is believed that the two men perished in the violent rock fall. The news is devastating
for Thérèse who has just discovered she is pregnant. Then, some weeks
later, Antoine appears alive and apparently unharmed…
Film Review
About the only thing going for this painfully static and frigid melodrama is its attractive
photography of the Swiss Alps setting. The production team fails on every count
to evoke the natural poetry in the film’s fairytale-like storyline and is ill-served
by a poor script and some astoundingly flat acting. The film does little to engage
and audience’s attention and is slowed down by some unjustifiably long dialogue-free
takes. However, it does make an excellent soporific.
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