The Visitors (1980)
Les Visiteurs is about the disappearance of a team of six extraterrestrials coming to study Earth. The Empire of the Four Planets dispatch two police detectives to find them. They slip into two human bodies just as they are about to die, those of a Frenchman Jean-Louis and a German woman Renate, and resuscitate them so as to pursue their mission.
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Fresh and Exciting
a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
This was one of the only science fiction series made for the french TV at the beginning of the 80s and I saw it when I was a teenager. I bought it recently from INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel)for a few euros, and I must concede that it is much worse than what I remembered. It is mainly a holiday catalog (Italy, Columbia, South Africa, Austria,France, Germany) with lot of landscapes and very little dialogs or scenario. The idea is not bad (even if not very original), but it is poorly developed and the acting by Barbara Kramer is terrible. Many details are incorrect on IMDb. The main actors were Josep Maria Flotats and Barbara Kramer (not Michael McGovern), who are present in all six episodes.