When the Cat's Away (1997)
A movie review by Michael J. Legeros Copyright 1997 by Michael J. Legeros
(Sony Classics)
Directed by Cedric Klapisch
Written by Cedric Klapisch
Cast Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem, Olivier Py, Renee Le
Calm, Romain Duris, Joel Brisse
MPAA Rating "R" (presumably for sexual situations)
Running Time
Reviewed at The Studio in Raleigh, NC (14AUG97)
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WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY is about a young Parisian woman (Garance Cla- vel) who loses her cat. She leaves it with an old lady (Renee Le Calm) before going on vacation and returns to learn that puss has popped out the window and so she organizes a search party and they scour the neighborhood and her gay roommate (Oliver Py) helps and the old lady helps and the young woman makes new friends and visits new places and still hasn't found her cat and so she lays awake at night while her roomie bangs away in the next room and all of this was so damn exciting that I decided to forgo what promised to be a *very* relaxing nap and, instead, agreed with my companion that walking out was, indeed, the best way to appreciate this so-called "charming French film." Needless to say, returning to the real world and our really ordinary lives was one Hell of an exciting proposition, by that point. In French, with English subtitles.
Grade: W/O
-- Mike Legeros - Movie Hell http://www.nonvirtual.com/hell
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