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Format: VHS
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
96 min. |
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Movie Description
The stunning award-winning story of how three beautiful sisters handle their man troubles.
Synopsis
The story of three sisters in French Colonial Algeria during the 1950s and how their lives of ease and privilege are irrevocably changed by the onset of the Franco-Algerian War. The eldest sister's domestic world is shattered when her beloved husband, a French naval officer, is reported missing in action, leaving her alone with their several children. The middle sister takes over the running of the family vineyard and becomes a target of the terrorist attacks sweeping the region. The youngest sister, a nurse, falls in love with an Arab freedom fighter. The film is presented in the form of a triptych -- the same story told three times from the point of view of each of the sisters -- with each successive unfolding revealing both new perspectives and new information.
Film Notes
Film was also released theatrically under the title "Overseas."
Winner of Best Film (Critics' Week) at Cannes 1990; Best Actress for Nicole Garcia, Marianne Basler and Brigitte Rouan at Valence 1990 (Mediterranean Film Festival); Best Screenplay at Namur 1990 (Francophony Festival); the Critics' Award at Stockholm 1990; and the New Directors Showcase Award at the 1991 Seattle Film Festival. It was also shown at the 1991 New Directors/New Films series in New York City and at the Sarasota, Montreal, Cologne, Toronto, Carthage, Puerto Rico, Florence and Vancouver film festivals.
Feature film directing debut for French actress Brigitte Rouan. Rouan won a Cesar award in 1985 for her short film "La Grosse." Rouan has previously acted in films directed by such notables as Jacques Rivette, Bertrand Tavernier, and Claude Lelouch. She played the mother in Agnieszka Holland's "Olivier, Olivier."
Many of the events in "Overseas" are based on Rouan's family history, including her father's disappearance while fighting in Algeria. Rouan herself plays a role that includes many elements of her aunt's life story.
Video has easy-view yellow subtitles.
Industry Reviews
"...OVERSEAS is at once a film of charm and substance, intimate and sensual in the French tradition, and a touching family chronicle..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (02/21/1992)
"...Disarming and affecting....[With a] magic sense of affirmation and resilience..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Lloyd Sachs (03/20/1992)
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