Lune froide (1991) User Reviews

A great movie with some unpleasant scenes

[OJT · 8/10 · 15 August 1999]

This movie was stopped by censorship so it wasn't schefuled for ordinary show it's in the cinemas i Norway. We saw this at our private Film Club - an arrangement in Norway allowing us to set up films not distributed ordinarily to cinemas, also the totally censored ones. I made this review when I saw only 5 had seen it, and given their response, none had written a comment, so here it is.

It is really a funny film, with a dark undertow. The two poor main persons are friends having lots of fun and trouble. The film changes when they steal an ambulance. They find out that there's a corpse of a beautiful woman in it. I would say the next scenes are unnessesary when it cones yo give this film a story, still, it what you really remember for years afterwards.

Without telling too much, you'll soon enough know that it ends up with one of them falling in love with the corpse. It sounds disgusting, and it is of course, but the film still doesn't show too much of that. The film is well worth seeing, I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

The humor is great, but I must say the film would have been great also without the necrophilia scene. Go see it!

The Dead

[walesgvdh · 7/10 · 21 October 2002]

no pun intended, the atmosphere reminded me of 1987´s The Dead by John Huston, which I saw for a second time shortly before Lune Froide debuted at our local "filmhuis Para" in Breda, you should try to watch both these movies, it´s a good combo, I remember pondering afterwards

Excellent but disturbing

[FabZeFab · 9/10 · 24 September 2003]

I saw this film about 12 years ago but i still remember it. Bouchitey is one on my favorite french actors and he made something great with LUNE FROIDE: 1 - He managed to adapt perfectly Charles Bukowski's universe (and that wasn't an easy piece!) 2 - He filmed in black and white, an excellent way to bring despair, troubles and loneliness 3 - as an actor he's just great (Stevenin too)

a great french film

[dolot-olivier · 9 August 2003]

I saw Lune froide some years on a bad quality video tape but i still loved that film.

It's a comedy where l'humour noir is all. The dialogs are superb. JF Stevenin and Bouchitey are fantastic. The others actors are OK. Maybe you have to be french to appreciate entirely the film (it's a lapalissade to say that...)

You can compare this film to "Les valseuses", one of the best french film. There's a kind of rnr attitude, it describe looser at their best, with an intelligent stupidity. You may think too about "Les démons de Jésus", once again with Bouchitey.

The episode of the dead body is not very important to me, looking backwards. It's more the relations between people and their behaviour which are important.