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Format: Laserdisc
Apr 1997
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: HiFi, Stereo
Closed Captioned
107 min. |
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Details
Movie Description
Hoping to travel back in time to right an accidental slaying, a 12th-century knight and his bumbling squire are instead sent 900 years into the future. Once they get their 20th-century bearings, they set out to reclaim their castle (now a luxury hotel) and to figure out how to return to their own era - but the newly liberated serf may not want to return. This hilarious comedy became the highest grossing comedy of all time in France.
Synopsis
A medieval lord, who wants to go into the past and remedy a fatal error, lands in the 20th century instead. A series of comic catastrophes ensue as he meets his pompous, bourgeois descendants and tries to return to his own time.
But even if the aristocrat doesn't like the democratic present, his serf feels otherwise -- and he'll do anything he can not to go back.
Film Notes
This film was incredibly popular in France; at one point, over 20,000 people a day attended a screening.
Screenwriter/actor Christian Clavier and actress Valérie Lemercier both appeared onstage in French vaudeville -- a form which, unlike its American counterpart, is alive and thriving. Much of the film's material derives from this tradition.
Other production companies: Amigo Productions (France) and Alpilles Productions (France). The region of Languedoc-Roussillon in France also contributed financially to the production.
Running time 107 minutes.
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Industry Reviews
"...THE VISITORS is resounding proof that it is still possible to conjure up a hilarious, ingenious, mainstream entertainment with the utmost sophistication and perception..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (07/12/1996)
"...[A] charming and chilling tale....VISITEURS raises many questions about the meanings, and priorities, of love....It does so with beautiful language and exquisite acting..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Andrew Patner (12/26/1994)
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