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Les Destinees
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780794202507
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0794202500
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
MPN: D5338D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Running Time: 174 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
This sumptuous film follows the story of a marriage caught in the turmoil of social change. The beautiful Emmanuelle Béart portrays Pauline, wife of the heir to a prosperous porcelain industry. In 1900, when first she meets her future husband, Jean Barnery (Charles Berling), he's a Protestant minister unhappily married to another woman (Isabelle Huppert). After a scandalous divorce, Jean and Pauline marry and move to Switzerland, where they live a briefly idyllic existence, but Jean is drawn back into the family business, which is rocked by the rise of unions, the brutality of World War I, and the economic depression that followed. Throughout, Pauline fights to retain some semblance of their original love. Les Destinées manages to be both intimate and epic, every scene built from carefully observed details in setting and psychology. In the end, the portrait of an enduring marriage is richly affecting. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - not a 5 but close
Beautifully shot and directed romance with a beautiful heroine. Emmanuelle Beart. Slow paced, graceful, and scenic. This movie is truly a work of art but a great movie no. Dialogue is vapid, trying to be insightful. I did enjoy it greatly anyway like a piece of museum art.
Rating:  - Take a long look at the critical reviews before you buy
What happens when Europeans apply their methods of closet drama to make an "epic"?
You have the usual main characters whom you don't like at first sight and want to get away from as quickly as possible once you get to know them better.
You have no action whatever on screen for the entire 165 minutes (not three hours).
You have brief glimpses rather than scenes. For instance, WWI is three glimpses, none of which involve battles or anything as vulgar as ... Read More
Rating:  - Love is everything
I read the reviews of quite a few people for this film and would like to comment on certain things omitted from their analysis. For starters, this is a movie about LIFE, so where to start with life? Pick a time zone for the beginning and end of the film. The comment of one intelligent reviewer was that the movie had no "meat" in the beginning or end and that the "meat" was in the middle, but he just doesn't understand that this is merely a movie about life. Why cut out the trip ... Read More
Rating:  - Love endures--this film will not.
Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the case of the film "Les Destinees," the beginning is in 1900, and the end arrives three decades later. In the middle is the meat of this film, and this includes:
A scandalous divorce
An idyllic soujourn in Switzerland
The First World War
The fortunes of a porcelain producing family
The inside of a swinging Parisian nightclub circa 1930
A religious conversion
An adulterous affair
The stock ... Read More
Rating: - A Thought Provoking Epic Tale
The production of porcelain and cognac are the axis around which this film revolves. The film documents and dramatizes the sacrifice involved in maintaining quality during hard political and personal times. Covering several decades, the film intelligently probes philosophical themes of love, duty, family, and death. The acting is superb. Be aware that the movie is some 3 hours, so allot the time. One of my favorite scenes is the waltz scene; the grace of this dance is captured by the turn of the ... Read More
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