Not really a remake of CHARADE but a homage of French cinema of the 1960s, THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE is a remarkably wonky thing that has to be seen to be believe. It's very difficult for me to believe that producers and folks at the studio didn't see that something was not quite right when they saw bits and pieces of this during production. I mean, the whole thing is totally kooky. I hate to say disaster or a mess because I believe the end product is exactly what the director wanted. So the only thing I can say though: does it work? No, it doesn't work.
I'm not a big fan of CHARADE (too cute for my taste) so I don't feel like this "remake" is akin to blasphemy but I have to say that this is one of the weirdest studio films I've seen in many, many years. Things aren't made better with the fact that the film was mostly (if not entirely) shot on HD video, which doesn't look good at all. Looks like a series of home movies of famous actors with too much time on their hands than an actual film.
One is only left asking: what were they thinking?
I'm not a big fan of CHARADE (too cute for my taste) so I don't feel like this "remake" is akin to blasphemy but I have to say that this is one of the weirdest studio films I've seen in many, many years. Things aren't made better with the fact that the film was mostly (if not entirely) shot on HD video, which doesn't look good at all. Looks like a series of home movies of famous actors with too much time on their hands than an actual film.
One is only left asking: what were they thinking?