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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 22 April, 1998 DVD Release : 03 September, 2002 |
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Deja Vu description So romantic and haunting is Déja Vu's premise, it cries out for a director with more magic than Henry Jaglom can muster. Just before a long-engaged woman (Victoria Foyt, Jaglom's collaborator and second wife) slips into a serviceable marriage with a nice, if rather dull, guy (Michael Brandon), a chance encounter with an older Frenchwoman--a ghost?--derails her. After confiding memories of a dead-ended World War II love affair, the mysterious lady disappears, leaving behind a ruby pin that signifies one should never settle for less than the love of one's life. Drawn into the woman's past, Foyt travels from Paris to the White Cliffs of Dover--the WWII song, promising happy endings, is reprised at every turn--where she discovers the (married) love of her life (Stephen Dillane). Should they ruthlessly follow the dictates of their hearts? Or reject serendipitous passion in favor of familiar, safe lives? The star-crossed couple's dilemma comes into dramatic focus during a house party, when the guests (especially the charismatic Vanessa Redgrave) share tales about defining emotional moments, seized or allowed to pass. Director Jaglom likes to let a movie "happen" during such get-togethers, with family or friends improvising on often intimate themes (e.g., Babyfever's shower, 1994; Eating's birthday celebration, 1990). Such cinéma vérité can pay off in the freshest kinds of insights about the human condition--or it can be like getting cornered at a cocktail party by a pack of garrulous solipsists. Look for some of both in Déja Vu. --Kathleen Murphy |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | 1998 DEJA VU asks all the puzzling questions in the Universe...haven't we met before?...don't I know you....What do we do??? |
| Film director Henry Jaglom has been hailed by critics as "the definitive Hollywood filmmaker".Jaglom and his real-life actress/wife ,Victoria Foyt, once again team up to bring a startling and originally scripted and crafted screenplay to the screen.Anyone familiar with the Jaglom/Foyt team (LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS) will again recognize the earmarks of their work which always tend towards multiple characters intertwined in almost "reality-like" situations and conversations making the viewer one with the characters as an invisible third party to the entire scene-cinema verite at it's best.
This DEJA VU,filmed in 1998,and not to be confused with three other films bearing the same title,is romantic,magical,mysterious and down right philosophical bordering on the existential!The term DEJA VU simply means "the feeling that one has experienced something or someone before exactly as it is being presently experienced".When deja vu is experienced it can startle,baffle and even "creep you out",but the fact that it is a phenonenon that is worldwide is undeniable. Jaglom and Foyt's tale of "deja vu" takes a far more indepth and more philosophical road than the other films on this phenomenon as it asks the question, "If two people experience the undeniable 'pulling together' that cause them both feel that they are indelibly linked somehow/someway, then do they act upon it in spite of life choices already made?" This deliberately paced,well-acted and very intense dialogue-heavy script is a real find for lovers of the "intimate" film. This is a film,not so much of action, but of words skillfully set and spoken.Victoria Foyt and Stephen Dillane play the "haven't we met before" woman and man,Dana and Sean.The acting is so natural and engaging that the viewer is simply carried along in a very natural drift.The supporting characters played by Vanessa Redgrave,Rachel Kempson (Redgrave's real-life mother),Anna Massey (brilliant!),Noel Harrison and others make for a real two hour treat!. The music choices of Franz Schubert's SERENADE and the nostalgic WW2 love song WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER are constantly interlaced throughout this film which was shot in Paris,London,Los Angeles and Jerusalem. I absolutely refuse to give any plot away,because to do so would destroy the impact and the surprise that each subtle scene contains.(I hope this entices you!)This film will probably not interest people who want "action/entertainment".This is a character study of one of the highest degrees that may well interest patrons of "live" theatre.The film poses alot of questions and asks alot of the viewer to think about the choices that we make,have made or maybe should have made. As a person, myself ,who has experienced and acted upon an undeniable "deja vu" several years back, I can only say that for me it only confirmed the truth of what Jaglom and Foyt postulate...and I am happy..very happy for having made that decision. Perhaps you will too!? |
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