| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
I've just seen the first of these films and have been astounded. It's rough hewn but so natural, perhaps the most natural film I've ever seen. I'm not sure when the film was set but it looks like it could almost have been the future, some Ballardian time - we see trains and books on shelves but the lifestyle feels almost medieval. And yet, the people, the feelings they have, their fears; we think things have changed, that our minds and feelings have changed over time. This film tells me they have not. Perhaps my biggest feeling about this film is that despite all the hardships we witness we do not come away depressed. In fact with hindsight perhaps that is one thing that has changed about people, that we have never before seemed so miserable. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
I think it should be shown in schools. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I watched the first film last year - very good, isn't it? that astonishing bit with the woman screaming and the sitar sound wailing on the soundtrack made me ache. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
It's very fine, and so are the other two in their turn. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
This trilogy is another one of the great works of cinema I've yet to see. Holding out for the QFT to screen a season sometime. |