Rating: NR
Genre:
Adventure
Release Date: 10/27/2009
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French/Espanol
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Microcinema
Recharging his creative batteries with a "commercial" venture, director Luis Bunuel came up with the stylish if undistinguished
La Mort en ce Jardin (
Death in This Garden). Set in a steaming jungle, the film concerns a disparate group of refugees from a despotic military regime. Among these worthies is "good time girl" Djin (Simone Signoret), ageing miner Castin (Charles Vanel) and deaf-mute Marie (Michele Girardon). The deeper the protagonists venture into the jungle, the more Bunuel's patented surrealism begins to surface. Only two of the escapees survive the ordeal, and they aren't necessary the two whom the viewers are rooting for. Some prints of
La Mort en ce Jardin bear the title
Gina. hel) F
Lorsque L'Enfant Paris (
When the Child Appears) was adapted from the hit play by Andre Roussin. The story revolves around the efforts of a well-meaning, highly moralistic minister, who wants the government to clamp down on illegitimacy. Complications ensue when the minister's own wife become pregnant--and all evidence indicates that the child is not his. Adding to the protagonist's headaches, his daughter, on the eve of her wedding to a wealthy young man, announces that she, too, may well be in the family way. Not to be left out, the minister's son declares that he thinks he's impregnated his father's secretary!
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
