And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen

Valentin (also known as And Now...Ladies and Gentleman) is directed by Claude Lelouch and features Jeremy Irons as Valentin, a criminal mastermind whose jewel-stealing business, despite having made him rich, does not offer him much room for personal growth. Hoping to find meaning for his existence, ...more

And Now...Ladies and Gentlemen is more classy than compelling. It's exotic in a conventional way, with a suave high-class jewel thief, a French singer trying to forget her past, a Moroccan locale, and other details that seem more like movie homages than fully developed story ideas. The visuals are suitably lush, the score is appropriately romantic, and the memory blackouts provide director Claude Lelouch with a character-based reason to fiddle with the film's narrative structure (which is ...more