Russian Dolls

Original title: Les poupées russes

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7.0/10

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Comedy Drama Romance

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

21K

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- 1 win & 4 nominations total

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Trivia
The man knocking on the toilets door while Xavier is inside is the director of the movie.

Goofs
At the end of the film, Wendy greets Xavier on the Eurostar platform. Non-passengers are not permitted access to the platforms at Waterloo.

Quotes
Xavier: If I think about all the girls I've known or slept with or just desired, they're like a bunch of Russian dolls. We spend our lives playing the game dying to know who'll be the last, the teeny-tiny one hidden inside all the others. You can't just get to her right away. You have to follow the progression. You have to open them one by one wondering, "Is she the last one?"

Crazy credits
During the ending credits there is a scene where Wendy is putting the last piece of the puzzle.

Connections
Featured in The Making of 'Russian Dolls' (2006)

Soundtracks
Te Deum
Composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

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Featured review

8/10

Not Erasmus, Goethe

If "L'Auberge espagnole" was" Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," "Russian Dolls" is "Wilhelm Meister's Travels." As someone who has actually suffered through those novels, which have to be among the dullest ever written, I can appreciate these modern film renditions, both of which convey the same basic points and are far better to sit through.

A point worth considering, one that was hammered home with the architectural analogy, is that the ideal woman is not a woman, but art itself, something Goethe referred to as the "eternal feminine."

These movies are smarter than they're given credit for. They allude not only to a cosmopolitanism crudely expressed in the term globalization, but also to a cosmopolitanism at the heart of modern Europe, one that Goethe recognized first if not best.