Swann in Love

1984 [FRENCH]

Drama / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 2378 2.4K

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Plot summary

In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, in part, from Odette's complete disinterest in him. When he finally weds her, utterly compromising himself in high society, he finds to his horror that his love for her was a complete illusion. At the same time, the Baron de Charlus pursues his own ill-advised romance.

Top cast

Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann
Alain Delon as Baron de Charlus
Ornella Muti as Odette de Crecy
720p.BLU
1018.92 MB
1200*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles ro  
24 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 7 / 10

A Tile Pried From A Vast Mosaic

Jeremy Irons is Charles Swann, the stand-in for Proust in this movie version of the author's semi-autobiographical SWANN'S WAY, moving through the aristocratic portion of Parisian society in the 1890s, where nothing is forbidden to those of great wealth except honesty.The recreation of 1890s Paris was an easy thing for the film makers; much of it was still there ninety years later. How, though, to bring out the essential sense of Proust's work? For American actors, trained in techniques of sense memory, it clearly calls for use of that technique. The film-makers, however, have played with the idea of memory and its distortions. Proust may have famously written of madeleines and their triggering effect on his memory. the film-makers, however, are clear that we may remember things past, but we interpret them as the individuals we are today. Irons' performance is all about lust for courtesan Ornela Muti, but that is how he views it in the epilogue fifteen years later when the elegant Paris he recalls is buried under construction sites and rendered fetid by automobiles.And so, Irons is perfect casting in this role. We see him speak, we see him behave, but his character must be inferred by his actions, and we are never sure, until the epilogue, whether he is doing them because he wants to, or because of the fighting impulses of transmogrified lust and fear of expulsion from Society.
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Reviewed by grandisdavid 7 / 10

Good adaptation but not flawless

I really admire the work of Volker Schlondorff, I think he is one of the best German director nowadays with Wenders (although in a very different style). His adaptation of Proust is quite good but several things really annoyed me.

_first, the soundtrack: why using an atonal composition of Henze when Proust, who loved Wagner, filled his novel with specific musical references? It simply does not fit the atmosphere! Any chamber music of the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries would have been better!

_second, the acting: I am french and I really think Alain Delon is way overrated, he's simply mediocre. However, I really like Jeremy Irons, and Ornella Muti is usually quite good, but their dubbing is absolutely awful and ruins totally their acting! So I understand that Irons would have had a very strong English accent if he had been asked to act in french but if Schlondorff decided to shoot the movie in Paris with 90 percent of the cast being french, why in the hell didn't he choose two other french actors for the leading roles? I have nothing against English actors, on the contrary, but then, he should have shot the movie in English rather than dubbing miserably these good artists.

_Third, the movie is sometimes a little slow. Usually, Schlondorff does a much better job with the editing. If you want to discover the terrific job of this great director, you should rather see "The Tin Drum", "The Ogre", "The Handmaid's Tale" or "Death of a Salesman" before this one.

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