Came on this film by chance and decided to watch due to reading comments. Glad I did it was a fascinating movie and you had to pay attention. Simply don't make thrillers like this anymore.
*SPOILER ALERT* . @@vikramadoddamani yes, I wondered that too; maybe there was something in will too, or in other papers. A report or transcript. I think too at that point she'd been living on her nerves so long ... and had burnt all the cash ... so could not repay the insurance.
Fascinating and flawed characters played believably by great actors and actresses. Ridiculous but believable! Thank you for uploading it. Nothing they make today can even compare to how good this is.
A two part British mini series that is simultaneously ludicrous and great fun. Jack Gold’s direction is astute as always, and Carl Davis provides a giallo nursery score that perfectly suits the OTT melodrama. All actors take the silliness of their parts seriously, with Cherie Lunghi excelling as a sweet, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-her-mouth sociopath. This made for television series says a great deal about the comparative imaginative freedom writers and film-makers had in the 1970s -1980s; a freedom that is no longer possible courtesy of the ideological edicts of Woke politics.
Now this is the love child of Beckett and Fassbender raised in a Midsomer Murder episode. 💯 It is a fascinating dramedy, and impossible to ignore once I started. Thank you for posting.
The total absence of any morale commitment in any of the leading characters is utterly ... refreshing! 👍👍👍👍👍 👏👏👏👏👏 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 💗💗💗💗💗 A 10/10 movie, as is the source novel.
Yes, it is, the author is Hubert Monteilhet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Monteilhet and here is info on the book, which is also fantastic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Praying_Mantises He also wrote the equally superb RETURN FROM THE ASHES, which was put into a movie in the 1960ies and is also on youtube (at least it was there). With Maximilian Schell!!! These are of course just books and movies, so the "amorality" you read and see there is not real. That´s what makes it so much joy to watch, I guess.
A really excellent use of the piano to convey mood; in its many shades and colors, sometimes almost imperceptible, but nevertheless quite present in the moment....
Talk about a couple cold hearted sneaking heifers. I can't decide who is more evil, the wife or the other women. And that poor guy! It just keeps getting more entangled every minute.
..who wins top honours; Cherie or Carmen?...both superb, both totally in role, both convincing....but inching ahead by a whisker....Carmen; poised, scheming, determined, cruel one minute desirable the next....a tour de force.
Quite the little grizzly "Bear," was she not. With that utterly conscienceless, vacuous beauty, combining to form the most uninterrupted persona. 😊...poor old, starchy Vera sure met her match. Dear Vera, who could never really enjoy her life, with or without money......."Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott, 1808. ====== Yes Sir Walter......excellent point. ====== or as King Solomon once said, "The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked......" Proverbs 3 verse 33...all those years ago around 1000BC.
Spoiler Alert: I enjoyed this movie, very much, but wish they'd done a better job with the ending and Beatrice's demise. One idea I have is that she survives the truck hitting her, which would be even more insulting to the memory of the other two. Or, somehow Vera manages to get revenge in a twist ending. Otherwise, a gripping tale!
LOL, I too found myself wishing something "better" for Bea but, as is, the tale ensures that all relevant wrongdoers are punished which elevates it somewhat.... Yes?
@@Weird.Dreams Because she’d burned her 40Million francs, had decided that her life was over, and was past caring anymore (including about what people would think & say of her, post-mortem) because winning, money, image and luxury, were everything to her. That’s what I got from it, anyway. 🤓
Vera should have held her nerve. She caved way too easily. Also, why did she think buying a few clothes for Bear would keep her sweet? She should have given her 2 million in cash from the beginning.
Why is this so depressing? Fascinating, but SO depressing. I feel that These are soulless, empty people. Soulless, empty people, and their soulless, empty lives. A soulless, empty story about people, who are dead inside. Narcissus, all self knowledge gone. 😥 How are they to be made alive again? How are we to be made alive again?
Moral story of the movie - all bad things that you do - will eventually come back to you and all 3 main characters got what they really deserved. Vera and Christian killed a man and covered it - causing them to lose their sanity and eventually were forced to kill themselves. Ber invented a death to herself and was eventually killed
The 2nd part of the movie was seriously a waste of time. Why the writers didn’t end the movie the 1st part…..however, both ladies supposedly die so I guess that stopped the story
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A black widow and a preying mantis in one drama. Absolutely brilliant plotline. They don't make them like this anymore.
Such a preposterous storyline, filled with detestable characters... but I still thoroughly enjoyed it!
Me too sweetheart, love from the netherlands
PS This story is a perfect example of how futile Revenge is ‐ stick with "Fate will dish thee all I could wish thee!"
What goes around comes around …
Odiate et aspetate.
This was a good time. Lovely performances. Thanks
Came on this film by chance and decided to watch due to reading comments. Glad I did it was a fascinating movie and you had to pay attention. Simply don't make thrillers like this anymore.
got to pay attention to the myriad twists and details
Why did Vera kill herself? She could’ve taken the tapes and lived happily 🙂
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yes, I wondered that too; maybe there was something in will too, or in other papers. A report or transcript.
I think too at that point she'd been living on her nerves so long ... and had burnt all the cash ... so could not repay the insurance.
No.. only Béa could release them from the lawyer. And Béa's dead. @@vikramadoddamani
Why did she burn all the cash?? Was that to try and get back at Beatrice somehow?
Most excellent movie! Thanks for the UpL!
Such a terrible plot, completely unbelievable. Utterly brilliant!.
Fascinating and flawed characters played believably by great actors and actresses. Ridiculous but believable! Thank you for uploading it. Nothing they make today can even compare to how good this is.
I'm sure there some brilliant dramas 'nowadays' if you look or go to the cinema.
Watched both parts, and this was sheer brilliant. ❤
Most amusing. Loved it. Thank you, Kittenpink.
I love Vera's character. Down right evil yet polished.
Excellent - Thanks for uploading!
What people miss about this melodrama is that it also functions as an allegory for international relations between world powers.
Like who ?
Oh stop the nonsense of political intrigue. This is pure sexual adventure and a rockling good time.
@@james-pierre7634oh behave, you tease.
That's true.
Yep; countries have been f*cking each other over for centuries....
Didn't expect that ending!!
Hey 👋 I too finished watching it few minutes ago 😊
Excellent drama. Very much enjoyed that. Thank you for posting.
Remember watching this years ago great playxxxx❤❤
A two part British mini series that is simultaneously ludicrous and great fun. Jack Gold’s direction is astute as always, and Carl Davis provides a giallo nursery score that perfectly suits the OTT melodrama.
All actors take the silliness of their parts seriously, with Cherie Lunghi excelling as a sweet, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-her-mouth sociopath. This made for television series says a great deal about the comparative imaginative freedom writers and film-makers had in the 1970s -1980s; a freedom that is no longer possible courtesy of the ideological edicts of Woke politics.
I like the enthusiasm and passion of your comment: it made me watch the whole thing
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very well put
It's nothing to do with 'Woke edicts you Tory schmuck
Ruined quite a good comment
All correct but your woke farrago
it was wonderful seeing this again! thank you ever so much
SO good. Every moment a treat!
War of nerves. She torturing them. Revenge is a dish served cold blooded. The plot backfired and blew up in both their faces. Checkmate
The only person I feel sorry for is the poor young lecturer at the end... bless him. x Brilliant show!
Actually I think he had a lucky escape.
She would have ruined his life too.
All 3 leads were poison.
Fabulous, thank you 💜
Now this is the love child of Beckett and Fassbender raised in a Midsomer Murder episode. 💯 It is a fascinating dramedy, and impossible to ignore once I started. Thank you for posting.
I enjoyed this movie because it's the weirdest show I've ever seen.
I think it is very fast-paced and you don't know what will happen next.
@@pinkbeautytwinkle I agree. Characters are interesting for sure.
loved your choice of movie to post. I would love to see what you would choose next.
The total absence of any morale commitment in any of the leading characters is utterly ... refreshing!
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A 10/10 movie, as is the source novel.
Is the novel by the same name? I think morality makes a person stronger somehow.
Yes, it is, the author is Hubert Monteilhet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Monteilhet and here is info on the book, which is also fantastic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Praying_Mantises
He also wrote the equally superb RETURN FROM THE ASHES, which was put into a movie in the 1960ies and is also on youtube (at least it was there). With Maximilian Schell!!!
These are of course just books and movies, so the "amorality" you read and see there is not real. That´s what makes it so much joy to watch, I guess.
@@WolfgangJ-l2d I loved Return from the Ashes, the film with Maximilian Schell. It was on TH-cam a while back. Very dramatic.
It made me laugh at the volley of revenge. Great watch.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A really excellent use of the piano to convey mood; in its many shades and colors, sometimes almost imperceptible, but nevertheless quite present in the moment....
Thank you! I have looked for this for years.
Brilliant! Thank you!
Gripping! Really excellent!
A very good film. Amazing.
What a Film. I am in love with Cherie Lunghi.
Thank you for this!
How have I not seen this before brilliant
This was very interesting. Thanks for posting it!
Brilliant. Thank you
Watched both. Really excellent.
Simply superb 👏🍾
Well acted. Surprise ending. Brilliant 👏 👏
Absolutely Fabulous thanks
Talk about a couple cold hearted sneaking heifers. I can't decide who is more evil, the wife or the other women. And that poor guy! It just keeps getting more entangled every minute.
What poor guy??!
@@julieoluna8887exactly. There were many here.
Jolly good show!
..who wins top honours; Cherie or Carmen?...both superb, both totally in role, both convincing....but inching ahead by a whisker....Carmen; poised, scheming, determined, cruel one minute desirable the next....a tour de force.
I’d say Cherie- hands down !
🥳 Great! Thanks for posting!👍
Powerful 😢😢😢😢
And then there were none.
Great story. But I believe Bea gets married a little too easily 😍😀
Did she really love these men or what?
That was so good.
Thank you very intense storyline
Quite the little grizzly "Bear," was she not. With that utterly conscienceless, vacuous beauty, combining to form the most uninterrupted persona. 😊...poor old, starchy Vera sure met her match. Dear Vera, who could never really enjoy her life, with or without money......."Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott, 1808.
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Yes Sir Walter......excellent point.
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or as King Solomon once said,
"The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked......"
Proverbs 3 verse 33...all those years ago around 1000BC.
This was excellent
Brilliant.
Most enjoyable!
Excellent.
Very enjoyable
What a sick, twisted movie!
It was great in that way, imo. 🤗
Excellent 😊
Great movie 🍿
Excellent
Beautiful
Death has the last laugh
Mocking us; each and every step of the way....
Very well made classy stuff except the music score they were all in love with her revenge is served.
Really good movie
Wow. "The heart of man is desperately wicked." (Bible)
Predictable but enjoyable 🍾
She should get a job with the CIA MKU programme
This movie aptly points out the amount of abuse a weak-willed male will suffer under the hands of women. 😄
There are lots of weak willed men for sure.
I am certainly guilty of that charge....
Vera’s wardrobe 😍
Nothing fake about those furs....
The Rolls or Carmen du Sautoy
Both things of great beauty
Carmen all day long
She is indeed a grande dame.
I'd take a spin w/ her in that Rolls on a secluded back road any day; along w/ a fully stocked bar (Cognac only, of course)....
Part 1 was ok,but part 2 was total nonsense,they should have ended it with part 1.what a waste of time the 2nd one was.
I thought the exact same thing
Spoiler Alert:
I enjoyed this movie, very much, but wish they'd done a better job with the ending and Beatrice's demise. One idea I have is that she survives the truck hitting her, which would be even more insulting to the memory of the other two. Or, somehow Vera manages to get revenge in a twist ending. Otherwise, a gripping tale!
LOL, I too found myself wishing something "better" for Bea but, as is, the tale ensures that all relevant wrongdoers are punished which elevates it somewhat.... Yes?
Why didn't the raven haired one at the end grab the tapes and papers and go! 🤔
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Because she’d burned her 40Million francs, had decided that her life was over, and was past caring anymore (including about what people would think & say of her, post-mortem) because winning, money, image and luxury, were everything to her. That’s what I got from it, anyway. 🤓
Why did she burn the cash?
Wow,2 Sociopaths one a male simp, 1 pschyco and the guy from Abba as a chauffeur, what a film
Almost thought he might break into a verse of 'That's the Name of the Game'....
Vera should have held her nerve. She caved way too easily. Also, why did she think buying a few clothes for Bear would keep her sweet? She should have given her 2 million in cash from the beginning.
Dangerous liaisons
Yes, a very very good variation.
Good stories live forever.
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same theme music as alfred hitchcocks Rope movie
Good score, too!
Probably the most bizarre movie ever. Lots of twists and evil characters. I really can't recommend.
Agree…
Have you never seen Hamlet or King Lear?
Wow
I like to see a happy ending
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Why is this so depressing?
Fascinating, but SO depressing.
I feel that
These are soulless, empty people.
Soulless, empty people, and their soulless, empty lives.
A soulless, empty story about people, who are dead inside.
Narcissus, all self knowledge gone.
😥
How are they to be made alive again?
How are we to be made alive again?
I felt a bit sorry for Christian. Beatrice takes revenge to whole new level and it became to drawn out.
Vera has the same facial structure as Margaret Hamilton (the witch) in the wizard of oz.
Moral story of the movie - all bad things that you do - will eventually come back to you and all 3 main characters got what they really deserved. Vera and Christian killed a man and covered it - causing them to lose their sanity and eventually were forced to kill themselves. Ber invented a death to herself and was eventually killed
Wonderful in every respect, except the music - should have been a harpsichord and not a piano.
That piano 'tinkling' was what caused me to switch to part 2 and see how it all ends! ... I totally agree with you! It gave me a headache!
No, I think the music fits the movie like a glove.
@@wmjahn ... Maybe, but it was very loud. It would have been more tolerable had it been a bit quieter, but that is only my opinion. 🙂
@@suesmith616also mine
Far too loud.
@@angelaberni8873 ... Glad you agree. It's annoying to have to keep turning the sound up and down!
34:50 mind the patient richard!
I like but it felt like they were making it up as they went along.
Могло быть всё иначе☹️
Praying Mantis ?. Sounds like my x . I am Barbie Ken !. 😂😂😂 Thanks
lol!
One should always be wary of unicorn images
this was advertised saying Jane Seymour was in it????i in pt 1
I'm so glad she didn't play the part, Jane Seymour wouldn't suit at all
There is another film with the same title with Jane Seymour in it! Its very good... Typical 90s🎉
Didn't get the point of the story - all of them ended up dead...but was ok to watch.
Didn't understand what happened to vera?? Can anyone explain?
Car exaust fumes...
Suixide by carbon monoxide
@@adamkane7513 ohhhh...got it..I wished vera had a better end..
this chicks chan stuff then this movie lmfao.GORL OUT HERE PRAYING MANTISING
Dreadful ending. I wanted Beah to be happy.
43:19 the flimsy door
why?
😂😂😂😂😂
The 2nd part of the movie was seriously a waste of time. Why the writers didn’t end the movie the 1st part…..however, both ladies supposedly die so I guess that stopped the story
Until they both come back from the dead in Pt. 3....
This movie is messed up!