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| To the Extreme | 
 enlarge | Director: Etienne Faure
Actors: Rosette, Julie Depardieu, Aurelien Wiik, Sebastien Roch, Jeremy Sanguinetti
Studio: Picture This
Category: DVD
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 48911
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 107
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D4021D
ISBN: 1893410528
UPC: 667443541141
EAN: 9781893410527
ASIN: B0007LBM2M
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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| Customer Reviews:
 yawn July 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this movie shows you the life of an oversexed guy and gets boring after the first 15 min
 In Extremis - Latin title April 21, 2007
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
'In Extremis' is Latin, of course, not French. A good translation is 'in extreme circumstances'.
Choices and their ramifications May 25, 2005
115 out of 123 found this review helpful
The French title of this film is IN EXTREMIS (though translated as TO THE EXTREME) and means 'in desperate circumstances, especially at the point of death'. Rethinking the story of this interesting but problematic movie in those terms after viewing gives the cinematic effort more poignancy. This is a tale of the impact of family, loss of parents, dissolution of the core unit has on us all: in this story we are asked to exam the 'in extremis' state of such trauma.
Thomas (Sebastien Roch) is a hedonist, a handsome young man whose parents died in an Alpine accident, and a man who sleeps with both sexes in a confused state of true identity. He lives with one of his female lovers who has a young teenage son Gregoire (Jeremy Sanguinetti) whom he loves as a son. When the mother accidentally dies, Gregoire wants Thomas to be his guardian. Thomas' lifestyle does not lend itself to fatherhood and though he deeply loves Gregoire, by law and by proclivity he cannot assume the role of foster parent. Even with the aid of his prostitute sister Anne (Julie Depardieu) he is unable to keep the disappointed Gregoire from being sent to a prison-like orphanage. Thomas finds solace from his lover Vincent (Aurelien Wiik) and from his excursions into the bohemian all night orgies where he attempts to forget his promise to be available at all times for Gregoire. Eventually Thomas' devotion to Gregoire overcomes his hedonistic addiction and results in his aiding the boy's escape from the orphanage to move with him to the home in Ibiza his deceased parents owned. The story has a bizarre but touching ending, which comes totally unexpectedly, and revealing it would ruin the impact and message of the film.
Director/writer Etienne Faure ('Prisonnier', and 'A la recherche de Tadzio' which is included on this CD and traces the life of the actor Bjorn Andresen who played Tadzio in the film 'Death in Venice') directs his actors well but is less successful in finding the interaction of flashbacks, fantasies, graphic indulgences and superimposed poetry inundated with noisy music. But given these distractions the film still makes a simple case for the significance of family - genetic and extended - and therein is the power of the story. This is obviously the work of a young director with copious ideas about film and as such one can forgive many of the early experimental indulgences because the heart is in the right place. In French with English subtitles. Grady Harp, May 05
Characters not exactly likeable, but direction more to blame April 29, 2005
63 out of 73 found this review helpful
The main character in the 2000 French indie film "In extremis" (To The Extreme) is Thomas, a self-absorbed 20-something bisexual part-time hustler (and full time "party boy") who is sexual relationships with a male and several women, including his own sister Anne, who works as a prostitute. One of his affairs is with an older neighbor single mother of a 13 year old son, and he is there to comfort the son when the mother passes away suddenly. The boy wants to live with Thomas, but he has neither the focus nor the maturity to care for him, a fact that is recognized by the authorities who send the boy to an orphanage.
The film is quite pretentious and faux "arty" with scenes of Thomas with his bohemian crowd, and of nightmare-like flashbacks of him wandering on a snowy mountain looking for his (and Anne's) dead parents. Unfortunately, the entire film seems sureal after a while, and one really doesn't connect with the characters, despite some decent acting from the young actor who plays 13 year old Gregorie, and the promise of Gerard Depardieu's daughter (Julie, who plays Anne) in the cast. Better direction could have made it a much better film.
In French with English or Spanish subtitles (which likely were a plus, since I doubt even someone who speaks fluent French would have caught every word of the mumbled dialogue), cinematography is a pleasant positive. Some male and female partial nudity, simulated sexual acts, but surprisingly not very erotic.
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