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Frankenstein 90 (1984)
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Teaming with Claude Chabrol's longtime screenwriting partner, Paul Gégauff, director Alain Jessua makes a right hash of this madcap updating of Mary Shelley's much-abused fable. The idea of casting Jean Rochefort's eccentric scientist as a cybernetics specialist is valid enough, but the heavy-handed mix of pastiche and innuendo never comes close to amusing. With the body of a robot and a human face, Eddy Mitchell's “monster” is supposed to be mischievously amoral. But neither his fixation with Frankenstein's fiancée, Fiona Gélin, nor Rochefort's passion for nubile construct Herma Vos even hints at salaciousness, let alone sci-fi or social satire. DP
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Running time
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100min
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Country of origin
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Fr
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Genre
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Horror Satire
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Original language
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French
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Screenplay
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Alain Jessua, Paul Gégauff, from the novel by Mary Shelley
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Subtitling information
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In French with subtitles
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