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Aender S Totally odd but excellent comedy. My favourite by Bertrand Blier. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/13/24 Full Review Audience Member There must be other touchstones besides "Waiting for Godot" but none are coming to mind just now. Blier's film is as abstract, surreal, and nonsensical as Beckett's play but it exists more decidedly in the real world of crime and cops, relationship disintegration and loss, towering apartment buildings and empty subway stops. A young Gerard Depardieu stumbles from one set-up to the next - is he potentially a murderer himself? Even he doesn't know. Blier's father is genial as the police inspector who seems more interested in being left alone and drinking wine than investigating crime and Jean Carmet is pathetic as a weak-willed killer of women. These latter two form a ridiculous trio of sorts with Depardieu. The plot frenetically (but absurdly) bounces from one setting and new acquaintance/lover/foe to the next, ending finally in a beautiful natural locale with beautiful Carole Bouquet putting everyone out of their misery. Doesn't overstay its welcome but might require some tolerance - that is, you could be alienated by this riff on alienation. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Black humor at its finest Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Certainly the best movie from Bertrand Blier. It is still not outdated because of the quality of the dialogues and the great actors. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member ..amusingly absurd n consistently funny. Every character is either a killer or gets killed.. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Bizarre. Unusual. Frustrating. Claustrophobic. Slightly surreal. Just a few of the adjectives that sprang immediately to mind when considering Bertrand Blier's dark comedy Cold Cuts. Filmed mostly (and appropriately) at night in and around the newly constructed La Defense, the film certainly makes for interesting if not exactly easy viewing, and demands the viewer's attention from the outset. Alphonse, the Depardieu character, can't seem to hang on to a woman for very long owing to a murderous aquaintance, who blames his 'addiction' on his dehumanized surroundings... Alphonse thinks he may have killed a man on the subway, and is then hired as a hit man. Bizzarely his only neighbour in the high-rise tower block is an inspector of police, who seems to tacitly approve of the mounting body count, despite, or because of, his job. The murders continue as the scene shifts from suburbia to rural idyll... The scenario isn't therefore an obvious source of comedic situations and humour, yet the film is put together in such a way, the performances strong enough, to carry it off as a darkly funny, quirky and intriguing satire on modern life and our supposedly civilised society. Depardieu as usual is worth the entry fee alone, helped by a strong supporting cast. French film-making at it's best. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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