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Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussolier, Daniel Prévost, Claude Rich, Romane Bohringer
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Colonel Chabert (1994) |
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Based on the Honoré de Balzac novel, COLONEL CHABERT (Le Colonel Chabert) is a movie cowritten and directed by Yves Angelo in 1994. The picture earned 6 nominations for the french Academy Awards.
Colonel Chabert was one of Napoléon Bonaparte's most loved officers. At the Eylau battle against the Russians in 1807, he was severely injured at the head and left for dead. Partially amnesic, he passed the next years wandering from hospitals to homes for mentally deranged people. Now, 10 years later, Chabert has come back to Paris and hired the lawman Derville in order to recover his possessions. Chabert's wife, after the announcement of his death, had married again and is now the mother of two children. She prefers to negotiate a private settlement with Chabert rather to go in court and lose her actual family.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Colonel Chabert (1994) |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Wife
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
War impact on civilians/veterans
Yes
Brain/Body not working?
- amnesia
Kind of conflict:
- war (general)
- war, Civil
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- senior military
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- mental hospital
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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