Synopsis
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
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Cast
- Jeremy IronsValentin Valentin
- Arthur St. ClaireBoubou
- Patricia KaasJane Lester
- Alessandra MartinesFrançoise
- Yvan AttalDavid
- Amidoul'inspecteur de police
- Laure Mayne-Kerbratla chanteuse noire
- Sylvie LoeilletSoleil
- Constantin AlexandrovMonsieur Falconetti
- Stéphane FerraraSam Hernandez
Recommendations
- 90
Wall Street Journal
The good news about Claude Lelouch's And Now Ladies and Gentlemen -- there's no bad news -- is that the man who made the sublimely superficial "A Man and a Woman" almost four decades ago has grown in wisdom and artistry, but hasn't lost his love of glossy surfaces. - 75
ReelViews
The core relationship is what makes the movie with this ill-advised title a well-advised choice. - 67
Austin Chronicle
All told, it’s two-plus hours of trinkets and baubles and clever repartée beneath a perfect summer sun and beside the whitewashed walls of Fez, not inconsequential but as ephemeral as the sky above. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is so extravagant and outrageous in its storytelling that it resists criticism: It's self-satirizing. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
For those who don't know his (Lelouch's) work, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen will be fun because his style is unique and unpredictable. But for those who have known him in better form, this one is not a must-see. - 63
Chicago Tribune
A movie best suited for a lazy afternoon or a languorous night, particularly if you're a Francophile. Charming, glamorous, emotionally suggestive but slight, it's full of beautiful and colorful people. - 60
Chicago Reader
According to common usage, the French word stupide comes closer to silly than to dumb, which is how I might rationalize my affection for this harebrained, obvious, but euphoric tale. - 50
New York Daily News
The tone moves from gently jocular (Irons appears in drag) to mystically morose (a female shaman tries to ululate up a cure), and that creates a jarring effect from which the movie does not recover.
