The Widow of Saint-Pierre 2000 123movies

Watch: La Veuve de Saint-Pierre 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1849, in the Archipelago of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, the drunken Ariel Neel Auguste and his partner Louis Ollivier kill for a futile motive (to see if he is fat or just big) the fishing boat captain Coupard. Nell, who stabbed the victim, is sentenced to die with his head severed in the guillotine while Louis is sentenced to hard labor. During the transportation to the prison under the custody of Captain Jean, there is an accident and Louis dies. While spending his days in the cell waiting for the guillotine and the executioner, Neel is invited by the captain’s wife Mrs. Pauline to help her in her garden and becomes her protégé. Later he has a process of rehabilitation helping the locals in minor works and becomes very popular in the island. When he saves the building Café du Nord and her owner from sinking in the sea, his popularity increases and nobody but the governor and politicians of the council wants his death. Neel marries Eleontine Jeanne-Marie, but sooner he is informed that the ship Marie Galante has just left Martinique bringing a guillotine. Now the Governor and politicians need to find an executioner in the population to execute the sentence..
Plot: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
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	7.2/10 Votes: 5,598
	91% | RottenTomatoes
	73/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 46 Popularity: 5.35 | TMDB

Reviews:

I’d managed to miss all of Leconte’s previous films, and I’m now annoyed with myself for doing so.
An earlier writer was right – this IS cinema de qualite, fifty years after. For those who don’t know, “cinema de qualite” was a phrase coined by one of the New Wave critics (I think it was Truffaut, but don’t quote me) to express contempt for what he and his colleagues perceived to be the overly glossy, empty product typical of 1950s French cinema. Yes, well. The New Wave fizzled out after producing little of value, and the 1950s (no doubt its faults were real enough; Truffaut probably came close to seeing every single French film of that decade, so in one respect he’d be in a position to know) is looking more and more like a golden age, so maybe the phrase “cinema de qualite” is about due to be reclaimed. “Quality cinema”, without the sarcastic sneer.

There are many lush camera pans over bleakly attractive scenery, which is good (not bad) in itself; but the main point is, Leconte USES the scenery. We don’t doubt for a minute that this is the farthest-flung province in the entire French empire. The sea is rough (which partly explains why the murderer rows back to face execution: when every oar stroke is an effort, AND it looks to him as though he’s doing the cowardly thing, the effort becomes unbearable). Every section of the island not actively occupied by civilisation feels as though it doesn’t belong to civilisation – even though it’s so desolate it doesn’t belong to anything else, either. In short: the story clearly belongs here, and nowhere else.

One of the great things about this film is the way it shows people acting (in a plausible way) on desires which it’s easy to overlook or underestimate the force of. The husband trusts his wife’s moral judgment, and is prepared to act on it. The murderer feels as though he’s living under a just sentence of death and does what he can to redeem himself. The islanders are all pragmatists: at the start they believe in the value of retributive justice, but as the sheer uselessness of retributive justice becomes more obvious with each passing day, for MONTHS, the belief collapses under the strain of holding on to it. It’s partly due to Leconte’s skilled use of location that we’re aware of the effect the mere passage of time has on people. One of the best films of 2000, if you ask me.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, History, Romance
Director Patrice Leconte
Writer Claude Faraldo, Patrice Leconte
Actors Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica
Country France, Canada
Awards 3 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length 3,067 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Super F-500T 8572)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm