A satirical work by Guitry which follows the adventures of seven pearls through four centuries of European history. Nicolas Cage plays a sublimely incompetent convenience store robber who falls in love with Holly Hunter, a prison officer. This 1994 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film was the first Cuban movie with a homosexual main character. Songs by Leonard Bernstein, exuberant support from Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett. Odd couple of Philippe Noiret as a lovably amoral veteran cop, and Thierry Lhermitte as his idealistic green partner star in France's most popular European release of 1991.
Story follows the disreputable heroes after their decision to go straight.
A gem of pre-war French cinema in which director Feyer achieves, through a combination of masterly use of studio sets and costumes and Harry Stradling's gorgeous photography, his intention of bringing to life Flemish painting. Cher, Danny Aiello and Nicolas Cage star. Oscars for Cher, Olympia Dukakis and scriptwriter Patrick Shanley. The first film from post-revolutionary Cuba to be released in the U.S., it created an impact unequaled in the history of Third World cinema. The self-criticism running through a work produced by a government ministry of a Marxist country surprised audiences.