Georges has Down's syndrome, living at a mental-institution. العلاقة الإنسانية اللي بين البطلين أكثر من رائعة .. البطلين اللي بيفتقدوا إحساسهم بالدفء والحنين والعطف والرعاية والمشاعر الإنسانية مع اللي حواليه .. واحد لانشغاله بالحياة المادية ودوامة الحياة والثاني لمعاناته الصحية بسبب متلازمة داون, الفيلم رائع في إنه تحس إنه بينتزع منك الضحك والبكاء, كان فيه مشاهد مش منطقية أوي في وسط سير الأحداث زي مشهد اما يروح لمراته ويكسر ويبهدل ويزعق ويتجنن او مشهد لما ساقوا كلهم العربيةوطلعوا على شغله يعني صعب يكون حفظ العنوان بتاع شغل هاري لدرجة انه يسوق عربية ويروح بيها وازاي معرض العربيات سابهم بالسهولة ديه.. وتعامل المجتمع مع جورجي تحس من المشاهد انه مش واقعي زي تعامل الست اللي في محل الجزم معاه مثلا. I did find the ending to be a tad too dramatic.What Georges shows the viewer is that, while people desire similarities, it is our differences that make us unique. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person. With 'Le Huitième Jour' director Jaco van Dormael tells us a moving tale of two complete strangers (who couldn't be more different from each other), whose paths cross as they travel opposite directions. The ending is kind of silly though but I still think it's one of my favorite movies. The opening sequence is excellent where Georges relates his theory on the creation of the world and in the closing scene we discover what God created on the eighth day. May 26, 2017 - Explore Minnesota Youth Reading Awards's board "The Eighth Day" on Pinterest. This film is close to be my favorite piece of celluloid. Seeing this film made me think seriously about how I spend my eighth day = my life! Access takes less than 1 minute. SE.
An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum. Is it a 'buddy' movie (certainly not the typical Hollywood kind)? Is it a drama? Chapeau! Duquenne delivers a very natural performance and Auteuil is terrifically restrained. .” (nothing is represented, rather wittily as TV static) “. But it is matched by the brilliant Pascal Duquenne as Georges. Every film that has ever been nominated for a César Award in any category. Even with (or perhaps because of) little to no special effects to bedazzle you, you are immersed before you know it.
Foolishly, without bothering to learn any more about it than that it involved Daniel Auteuil and a guy with Downs Syndrome, I avoided this classic til a couple of days ago when they were offering the video for silly money. We have been treating them with discrimination and neglect, a fact that is highlighted by the scene where Georges gives a present to the waitress in the kitchen). This review may contain spoilers. An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum. TMDb This is a 2015-2016 Sunshine State Book. This film is sparsely entertaining. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of... See full summary ». However, this does not detract from the whole. Didier Ferney Marc Schreiber Yves Degen Georges Siatidis Raymond Lescot Bernard Eylenbosch, Eurimages D.A.
There is not a lot of joy to be found in this film. Neither his wife nor his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. Rain Man pero bélgica, tomando una atmósfera más simbólica y melodramática. No: it is the story of Georges, a wonderful funny pitiful laughable loving frightened beautiful personality, a sufferer of the Downes Syndrome. (on the eighth day)... At least that was what I got from 'The Eighth Day'. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won’t leave his new friend. Georges' interplay with corporate management guru, Harry is dazzlingly handled - shifting from comedy to tragedy back to comedy again with breathtaking ease.The Eighth Day puts similar Hollywood fare like Barry Levinson's Oscar winning Rain Man or Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump well and truly in the shade.
Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. La verdad me gustaría decir más de ésta película (especialmente siendo el último film que me recomendó el dueño del videoclub al que iba antes de que lo cerraran), pero en general es muy básica y manipuladora. Center for Film and Audiovisual Arts of the French Community of Belgium, Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée. A successful banking salesman, Harry, bumps into Georges: they were both going in opposite directions with absolutely opposing ideas, problems and priorities; skillfully van Dormael melts these two unlikely men into a warm friendship, but which is so much more than the good buddy friendship of those having a beer down the road. Add the first question. I have not watched many French-language films in my lifetime, but The Eighth Day and Amelie are way up there on my list of favourite movies. But there are some gentle scenes as well, especially the impressive use of close-ups of hands - hands feeling the sun,wind and rain, hands reaching up, hands reaching out and clasping in love and friendship. Mobile site. What we tend to miss is the satisfaction of being something for another person - make a difference. But the story! A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. Let me put my ten cents in with every comment I have read here immediately and state categorically that this film is a JOY. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Do NOT use the backspace or "end test" until you have answered the 10 questions. Looking for some great streaming picks? Moving and original. Stream Now. This film is a monument. Drama. Pascal Duquenne and Daniel Auteuil are superb. "The Eighth Day" takes up this theme (Compare "Rainmaker").
`Le Huitième Jour' is worth the trouble. It appears, that some of us are wasting precious time doing things we think we need to do. This is the French and Belgians doing what they do best. As for anything else, well, just read the following commentaries  I go along with all of them. The film shows that people who are mentally handicapped are good natured. This movie has brought out stronger feelings of both sorrow and happiness in me than any other movies and it will probably always be the first movie I recommend others to see. The Eighth Day gives you something to reflect on, a pause from the fast paced lifestyles we are caught up in today. At times, it evokes the humour of Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with shades of Dennis Potter thrown in for good measure.As the emotionally blunted and desperately lonely yuppie, Harry, Daniel Auteuil turns in yet another sublime performance. Georges misses someone, too. I saw this film first on my way home from Paris to Newark aboard Air France in August 1996. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Wherever you are. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person. There is really not much I'd need or want to say here. The acting is fantastic, especially the brilliant Pascal Duquenne as Georges. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. It is a touching film for good natured souls. One has Down syndrome and longs for the love of his dead mother. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. Keep your little bookworms engaged outside of the classroom with our selection of the very best literary adaptations. There is really not much I'd need or want to say here. Even though Harry and Georges are the primary focus of the film, some of the important supporting characters are poorly developed, especially Georges's hating sister and Miou Miou's Julie.But those minuses aside, is 'Le Huitième Jour' a road movie (the landscapes are dazzling)? This movie has some kliches but I really don't care. Winning performances from both these actors give this film its main strength. Director Jaco van Dormael takes us into the world of Georges, a Down's Syndrome sufferer and his quest for a meaningful relationship with someone, just anyone. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible. This is a film chock full of laughter and tears and the fact that a leading French actress Miou-Miou agreed to play what is little more than a cameo as Harry's estranged wife speaks volumes for the quality of the writing. Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. In this film Harry (Daniel Auteuil) a businessman expert in sales psychology meets up with Georges (Pascal Duquenne), a Down's Syndrome child on the run. .
You will have 15 minutes to complete the test. Is it a dramedy?It's poetry. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. Decent-ish movie aside from that. It is, of course, the salesman who spends his life lecturing on how to manipulate the buyer who is himself manipulated by Georges - nice touch naming him after the 'normal' one of the two buddies in 'Of Mice And Men', where the retarded Lenny is looked after by George - the irritating, exasperating, impossible lovable guy who walks into his life after Harry nearly ran into his. The cuasi-surrealist scenes fit in perfectly: Georges recalls (or invents) past scenes of his life while either day-dreaming or sleeping; even the almost phantasmagorical final scene is totally correct.