Product Details

• Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Myriam Boyer, Olivier Martinez, Jean-Michel Noirey, Denise Chalem
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Homevision
• DVD Release Date: July 13, 2004
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00026L7MM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,994 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From acclaimed director Bertrand Blier (Get Out Your Handerchiefs, Too Beautiful for You) comes Un Deux Trois Soleil, the dreamlike tale of Victorine, a young girl growing up in the slums of Marseilles with her alcoholic father (Marcello Mastroianni - star of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2), and her crazy mother. Bizarre and surreal at the same time, reminiscent of Buñuel and Fellini, Un Deux Trois Soleil is innovative, outrageous, and a triumph for Mastroianni, in one of his most unusual roles. The film also features Olivier Martinez (Taking Lives, Unfaithful) in his breakthrough role for which he won the 1994 César Award for Most Promising Actor.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blier at his best!, June 10, 2005

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Arthur Martin "arthurpewty" (Toledo, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil (DVD)

I have only seen 3 Bertrand Blier movies, but this one is easily my favorite of the 3. BUFFET FROID, starring Gerard Depardieu, was the first I saw -- and the fact that it was basically plotless and full of absurdist humor made it instantly a favored flick. I more recently saw Blier's Oscar-winning GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS but thought it was a little too conventional and strained next to the more flat-out freewheeling BUFFET.
About 15 years after that pair of movies comes this one, which marries the sensibilities of the other two perfectly. Like HANDKERCHIEFS, it actually has a story, but like BUFFET, it doesn't bother with real-world logic, good taste, or linear chronology in telling that story.
SOLEIL is sort of a movie about coming-of-age in the projects, sort of a movie about sexual psychology, and sort of a cut-and-pasted collage of unusual moments.
The magical thing is that the damn thing winds up more moving than it probably would have if it was a straightforward tearjerker about hard living. Of course, Blier can't be credited completely for this, as his actors are wonderful, especially Anouk Grinberg as Victorine, our perpetually childish heroine, and Marcello Mastroianni as her charming perpetually drunk papa.
An underseen gem.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing...., July 18, 2009

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Leslie M. Ficcaglia "lficcaglia" (Port Elizabeth, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil (DVD)

My husband and I began watching this film and then stopped because we found it very disturbing. The repetitive theme of sexual predation and the threat of rape, by a gang of young thugs, of a teacher and then of the young girl Victorine was unsettling. We couldn't see where the film was going and decided that we didn't want to come along for the ride and find out.

The juggling of time, space and themes was well-executed and I could recognize that the film was creative and original, but the level of tension was too high. We may try it again at some other time, when our expectations are more in line with what we're going to see, but nothing I had read about the film offered any warning about the nature of the subject matter. I had assumed that the story would be similar to Le Grain et le Mulet, a film we enjoyed. The reviews did not suggest the bizarre and unpleasant quality of at least the first thirty minutes of the movie, which is all we saw.

Perhaps we have both worked with too many antisocial people in our professions to enjoy the depiction of them on the screen.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, May 13, 2009

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Guido Willems - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil (DVD)

I think this is one of the most sublime stories ever told in French cinema. The borderline madness and chaos, the loyalty and love of a father and his daughter, can't be told with more compassion and understanding than as it is told in this sublime work of art.