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DVD : The Kimstim Collection: The Color of LiesIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Bulle Ogier, Bernard Verley, Noel Simsolo directed by: Claude Chabrol  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.46 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0698452202839 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Kino Video Manufacturer: Kino Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 02, 2005 Running Time: 113 minutes Studio: Kino Video Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Sales Rank: 98037 Related Items: Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Murder in a small town . . .I like Chabrol and I liked this film. Were there not a murder of a young girl in the opening scenes, it would be something of a comedy of manners, following the affairs of a married couple whose relationship is a good deal more tenuous than its bravely sunny surface suggests. Meanwhile, a mild-mannered character turns out to be capable of a great deal more inspired skullduggery than we've ever been led to expect. Chabrol seems fascinated by psychological ironies as he explores the lies and half-truths ... Read More Rating: - "You never really know who you live with."Common wisdom has it that Claude Chabrol's been trading water since the superb La Ceremonie, and decidedly minor efforts like La Fleur du Mal, Rien ne va Plus and Merci Pour le Chocolat certainly do little to change that view, but the surprisingly excellent Au Coeur du Mensonge aka The Heart of the Lie/The Color of Lies is easily one of his very best. As usual he's not interested in the thriller mechanics of the film's murder mystery, preferring to focus on the effects on the marriage of ... Read More Rating:  - "That's the sort of thing you only see in movies"."The color of lies" (1999), directed by Claude Chabrol, is a good whodunnit, but also a social study regarding the way in which a small community reacts to someone that seems to be a threat. In this case, that person is René (Jacques Gamblin), an art teacher and the main suspect regarding a hideous crime that involves the rape and murder of one of his young students. But is he really to blame? And does that matter, in the eyes of the community? It is quite frightening to watch ... Read More Rating: - Subdued Seaside "Thriller"This is a solid, if not particularly mesmerizing, mystery from France's master of suspense. THE COLOR OF LIES has elements of several of Chabrol's earlier films: a seaside village (THIS MAN MUST DIE), a murderered child (LE BOUCHER), haunting psychological/sociopathological attachments (CRY OF THE OWL), a morally vacuous and predatory televison personality (MASQUES). Though COLOR OF LIES has an outstanding cast the film is almost too subdued for its own good and so viewers will likely find ... Read More Rating: - The color of emotions.After watching this above average crime drama from Chabrol, I was pretty mystified, and not by the film's mystery, but rather where was all the emotion in the characters of this film? We have a heinous crime committed at the beginning of the film, uncovered infidelity, and a second suspicious death, yet all the while, the people in this film are acting like they are strolling through one of Rohmer's non-violent, talky, morality films. From the very low key female police inspector, to her face full of food ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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