ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

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Original Title:  Jeanne et le garçon formidable

Synopsis
This French musical features dialogue and songs by Paris University's Jacques Martineau on a wide range of subjects -- from immigrant workers to book-selling. Travel agency receptionist Jeanne (Virginie Ledoyen and the singing voice of Elise Caron) is always on the lookout for men, and she thinks she's found the perfect guy in Olivier (Mathieu Demy, son of musical director Jacques Demy) -- who turns out to be HIV-positive. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.

[Fran]

From IMDb:

... The Shadows come off best here with their few lines and great instrumentals undermining the potential datedness of pop stars' movie appearances. However, Cliff really rocks and, even if the cinematic techniques would be bettered in the follow-up Summer Holiday, the music is just superb.

The basic plot of this is so similar to The Blues Brothers it's uncanny. I should be very surprised if John Landis and Dan Aykroyd hadn't seen The Young Ones.

Forget about Grazina Frame's dubbed voice, forget about the square old pop played by Robert Morley, and remember the great songs and the unbelievably handsome Cliff!

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Synopsis:  The surreal and the supernatural join forces in this extremely unusual "AIDS musical." The story features the ghost of the French-Canadian airline steward (played by Normand Fauteux) who, according to And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts' book about the AIDS epidemic, was the origin of one of the largest outbreaks of HIV.  Known as "Patient Zero" by the Centers for Disease Control, the handsome and promiscuous steward was basically the "Typhoid Mary" of the AIDS phenomenon.  In the story, Patient Zero comes back from limbo as a ghost to see his friends suffering from the syndrome:  some dying, the rest protesting at ACT-UP rallies. He realizes that his memory has been vilified as the extremely promiscuous source of all this suffering.
 
However, it is only when he becomes aware of an exhibit being prepared at the Toronto Natural History Museum, one which singles him out yet again as the villain, that he becomes aware that the exhibit's curator is an unusual being in his own right.  In fact, the show is being put together by the famous nineteenth-century explorer of the upper Nile, Sir Richard Burton (John Robinson), inexplicably still living, working at the museum, and filled with misguided homophobia. Though no one else can see Zero, Burton can, and eventually the two become lovers and the ancient explorer comes to view "Patient Zero" as "the heroic slut who inspired safe sex." Musical numbers include a high-camp underwater ballet production of Tell Me The Story of My Life."

[MaineWriter]

For this round...short and to the point. Movies with one word titles. One word, that's it.

A, An, and The count as words, so The Order is out.

Unplayed movies only, from 1888-2013.

Wildcard X is in effect.

Have fun!

Leslie
GameMistress

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[Fran]

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[MaineWriter]

It opens tomorrow!

[southendmd]

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Synopsis: An unsettling examination of the intersections of eroticism and violence, and the impact of pornography on the psyche, following the sexual trajectory of Dennis (Michael Gunther)--from a pornography-obsessed teenager to a practicing sadomasochist, and finally an accomplice to a heterosexual couple's thrill-killing sprees. Based on the novel by Dennis Cooper.



==COMMENT==
Sad proof that the presence of Parker Posey is not a guarrantee that a movie will be worth watching..