Product Details

• Actors: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde
• Directors: Bouli Lanners
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Film Movement
• DVD Release Date: July 14, 2009
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001NGF7LW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,116 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Eldorado" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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A small but damn-near perfectly formed serio-comedynever puts a wrong foot forward in the direction of sentimentality or cliché. --Variety

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ELDORADO - DVD Movie

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bleak but Heartfelt, March 11, 2009

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Randy Buck (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eldorado (DVD)

ELDORADO is a road movie with a difference; the humor's subtle here, the heart's subterranean, the little lessons from life usually learned in this kind of mismatched buddy flick muted, at best. But writer/director/star Bouli Lanners knows what he's about, and his film gets under your skin and stays there for days. Haunting images, excellent acting, memorable soundtrack. ELDORADO richly deserved the honor it took at Cannes, and is highly recommended to all adventurous fans of foreign films.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two strangers meet and bond..., December 15, 2009

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CGScammell (Cochise County, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eldorado (DVD)

A man drives home and discovers that his house is broken into by a scared drug addict looking for money to use for a busride back to his parents' home in the country. After seeing that the intruder is unarmed and scared, he lets him relax and volunteers to drive him back to his parents' home the next day. Why? Because the older man connects with the younger intruder. What keeps viewers watching is why.

Both men have secrets they are hiding. Both reveal them during the course of the movie.

The plot of this movie takes place "along the road," where they meet every imaginable flawed character: a car collector, a nudist, bikers and drug pushers. Is anyone normal? The older man's hair is never combed and he's wearing an oil-stained mechanic's overalls. The younger man never takes off his old cap.

Most of the conversation between the men takes place in the older man's (Yvan, played by Bouli Lanners who also directs this movie) car or at rest stops along the way. The dialogue is laconic. One senses that neither trusts the other. Elie, the younger man (played by Fabrice Adde), never gains the trust nor shows any comfort around Yvan. Yvan wants to, yet resists, to be the younger man's older brother. Characters develop as various scenes unfold and we see their reactions and learn of their intentions. In the end we are comforted that the end has come but it's an end without resolution.

Scenes of open fields, billowing clouds, wet country roads all add to the melancholy of this movie. The sountrack is in English and the car is a 1979 Chevloret station wagon. Eerieness and absurd suspense fill in the voids. At best this is a convincing man flick of two confused men looking for acceptance in a strange universe.

4+ stars.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best!, January 18, 2009

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Susan Page "Baghdad Cinemaphile" (Baghdad, Iraq) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eldorado (DVD)

This movie is terrific. It was my favorite of the 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival. The director/lead actor and supporting cast are excellent -- it is hard to believe they are acting and not "being." I recommend this highly -- you will become completely immersed in this snapshot of the characters' lives.