La Peste - Movie Review

Rating: 2.5 out of 5

A South American city (presumably Buenos Aires, home town of director Luis Puenzo) gets a little visit by the Bubonic Plague fairy, and all hell breaks loose. Well, sorta. La Peste is actually a pretty sleepy little drama, much in keeping with the dread-packed Camus novel it's based on. Existentialist ennui aside, the story of an American doctor doing his time in a strange land doesn't hold much promise. Puenzo's political commentary gets muddled in with this, and the whole thing becomes a movie with two heads, neither of them compelling.

Aka The Plague.

Facts and Figures

Year: 1992

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 2.5 / 5

Cast & Crew

Director: Luis Puenzo

Producer: Christian Charret

Screenwriter: Luis Puenzo

Starring: William Hurt as Doctor Bernard Rieux, Robert Duvall as Joseph Grand, Raúl Juliá as Cottard, Sandrine Bonnaire as Martine Rambert, Jean-Marc Barr as Jean Tarrou, Victoria Tennant as Alicia Rieux

Also starring: Raul Julia, Christian Charret, Luis Puenzo