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Finally Sunday! [1983]
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Very entertaining crime romp
Review date: 2008-01-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
This is a crime detection film full of surprises and humour. It never flags and holds ones attention the whole way through. Fanny Ardant is excellent. I've more often seen her in serious roles, but she's excellent in this light-hearted romp of a film.
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Reviews
Finally, Truffaut
Review date: 2007-01-02 Rating: 10 out of 10
Back in 1983 I saw a screening of at the London Film Festival that was supposed to be introduced by Francois Truffaut. On the day an apologetic Fanny Ardant turned up instead, apologizing that the director was feeling a little ill and was not up to travelling: in fact, he had just been diagnosed with the brain tumour that would kill him a few months later, and Vivemant Dimanche! aka Finally, Sunday/Confidentially Yours would turn out to be his last film. It works better on the big screen than the small, but it's still an immensely likeable little number that brings Francois Truffaut's career almost full circle to the kind of black and white semi-noir he championed as a critic. It's one of Truffaut's most purely cinematic films - while much of it is dialogue driven, there are few of the awkward literary conceits that he would resort to in some of his "tell, don't show" movies like Two English Girls, instead letting the character interaction and the loving black and white visuals speak for themselves. Most of all, it has a real sense of fun that even a brief melancholy reflection on the difference between death - something definite - and murder - something almost abstract - can detract from, whether it's Fanny Ardant's knocking out a suspect with a miniature Eiffel Tower, treating the fugitive Jean-Louis Trintignant to a view of her legs as she passes the window to the office he is hiding in or carrying out an investigation in wildly inappropriate attire, and there's a great joke about Paths of Glory. It goes a little over the top at the end, but by then you'll have had so much fun you'll gladly forgive it almost anything. And the last shot is a delightfully sweet and playful epitaph to a life in movies as a group of children kick a camera lens around a church during a wedding to the accompaniment of Georges Delerue's charmingly catchy music.
Cinema Club's UK DVD offers a good widescreen transfer with the trailer, an informative introduction by Serge Toubiana and a likeable, affectionate and informative audio commentary by Jean-Louis Tritignant recorded for the French DVD in 2001, although the additional features from the French DVD have not been carried over.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Fanny Ardant
Creators:
Fanny Ardant (Primary Contributor)
Jean-Louis Trintignant (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Cinema Club
Manufacturer: Cinema Club
EAN: 5014138305017
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, PAL,
Release date: 2006-09-25
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 106 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1983
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Original Language)