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John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 90.203.130.245
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 09:28 pm: | |
I’m sure Jonathan Glazer’s film has been discussed elsewhere on RCMB but I couldn’t find the thread anywhere (I even had a good look on the old board). I’ve only just got round to watching it as part of my ‘Films I Have & That I Should Have Watched Sodding Ages Ago’ season.
What a fascinating, absorbing film. Did anyone else think it was good? Despite a longer than usual period of post-film contemplation I still can’t quite work out why I liked it. The overwhelming impression it left me with was that for a film filled with talk of love, sex and marriage it has to be one of the coldest films I have ever seen – not just in the composition of its often almost black and white images, or because it all seems to take place during frankly miserable weather, but everything else too – costumes, performances, even the music. And for a film in which not an awful lot happens, which remains quite ambiguous to the end, and which contains some long, lingering shots of faces I felt so engrossed the running time flew by.
Sometimes when I don’t like a particular film I worry that it might have been because I was just in the wrong mood. This evening I think I was in just the right mood to appreciate this. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 10:11 pm: | |
I loved this too, John - a marvellously involving film. Kidman was better than she's ever been and the whole thing felt like Bergman crossed with Rosemary's Baby.
That long shot of Kidman at the concert was amazing for all kinds of reasons. |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 90.203.130.245
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 10:28 pm: | |
Good man! I agree - I couldn't take me eyes off that close-up of her face. Wonderful stuff. One of the writers was a Bunuel collaborator apparently |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.92.216.182
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 01:31 am: | |
All writers are Bunuel collaborators (joke) I did enjoy this and the coldness was unsettling indeed. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.148.96.124
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 01:07 am: | |
John - I really, really liked this film, but haven't felt like watching it again even though it's my kind of thing. You know what spoiled it for me? Hearing it was made up as it went along. Odd, as that's the way I work myself. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.148.96.124
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 01:07 am: | |
I liked it because it moved at the same pace as life, sort of. |
Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 91.110.233.201
| | Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 10:19 am: | |
And life is made up as it goes along. Either that or it all just kind of comes down. |