![]() It's not available on DVD either.General critic opinion towards the movie adds up to a consensus that ,well,it's OK ,moving,but it's artificial (sic) poetry and mannered cinematography (and nevertheless,it's Henri Decae's).In France ,"Cybèle" is slowly but inexorably falling into oblivion.One should add that it was released when the notorious Nouvelle Vague was ruling and the fusty Cahiers du Cinema were the holy writ and all those who were not part of the young Turks were dismissed as cheesy. Other examples are "Au Coeur de la Vie/La Rivière Du Hibou aka Occurrence at Owl Bridge Creek " by Robert Enrico,"Kapo" by Pontecorvo -made with French money and featuring French actors-or "Le Ballon Rouge" by Albert Lamorisse.French TV has not screened it for decades, not even the cultural channel,Arte. The DS cart can hold an order of magnitude more information than those old carts where perhaps it would be understood - we're talking fractions of a gigabyte rather than a few dozen megabytes - and the idea that one would have to pay $30 twice isn't just ridiculous, it's downright offensive.I'm the first French user to write about "Cybèle ou Les Dimanches de Ville D'Avray".Serge Bourguignon's work belongs to that handful of movies the reputation of which is much more considerable abroad than in their native country. This isn't the GameBoy era or even the GBA one where limits on storage space may have necessitated offering two versions of effectively the same game. And, in the ultimate slap in the face, Activision actually expects you to pick up two versions of what is essentially the same game to enjoy the "full" experience. In fact, this is the antithesis of those versions it is not fun - in fact it's a raging black hole of un-fun - nor is it worthy of the license or ever worth your time. It is not made by the same developers that gave the HD console versions their spark (har har, that's funny because it's the Transformers' version of a soul, y'see), nor does it offer any semblance of the same kind of fun. ![]()
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