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| written by Amahcuo |
February 21, 2007 - 11:02 PM PST |
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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This film was so unbearably pretentious and self-righteous at times I wanted to turn it off. Parts of it felt like mini-sermons on love, philosophy, history, and Hollywood's interpretation of history, Spielberg's making of "Schidler's List", Bresson (who was quoted, as from a Bible or something), and many more complaints that showed how to make so little out of a lot.
But I started to enjoy it after I stopped listening and just watched it, how it was put together: a beautiful and stunning work. |
| Do not adjust your TV set |
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| written by squad |
January 10, 2005 - 11:13 AM PST |
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| Jean-Luc Godard is reputed to be a film maker of note. I think it shows in this movie. He demonstrates what I thought I learned watching "Lumiere and Company" that in film, more is always more. Godard has the confidence to link a multitude of scenes and to throw up black title pages between when it serves. He has an eye for shot composition using ordinary city scapes in extraordinary ways. He is also bold enough to make the viewer work a little to piece together a movie that begins and ends in the middle and spreads out in both directions from there. Talk about poetic license, but Godard gets away with it because he can. He also injects a protest which apparently stems from the widow of Schindler getting pretty much stiffed by Hollywood over income from the movie about her husband. Godard really seems to be quite irritated by the issue, losing sight of certain realities such as accusing the United States of having "no history" so they have to buy other's. But again, he is the film maker extraordinaire, and it is his license to say whatever he likes in his own film. If you are a bit bored with conventional movies, give this one a look. One more thing, when it goes from black and white film to garish color saturated video at half-point do not bother to adjust your TV settings. Godard is making another statement here. Maybe he is saying, "I should have used a better video camera" |
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