A Zulawski masterpiece
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Lawdog1527 — 13 years ago(July 07, 2012 04:11 PM)
So what you're saying is FoxNews controls the thoughts an minds of all modern culture and is attempting to subvert the analysis of a 30 year old French film?
And that you've somehow personally ascended beyond that and therefore are intellectually superior to anyone who disagrees with you or doesn't share your same ideologies.
Furthermore, once a film is given an award such as the D'Or it is unimpeachable from than point forward.
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jriddle73 — 13 years ago(July 07, 2012 08:59 PM)
You're an idiot, my friend.
And
So what you're saying is FoxNews controls the thoughts an minds of all modern culture and is attempting to subvert the analysis of a 30 year old French film?
Most amusing.
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paguy27 — 12 years ago(April 08, 2013 04:12 PM)
"This film is a curious little oddity, but most certainly not a masterpiece by any stretch of imagination. For one thing, the acting is simply awful. Adjani gives one of the most annoyingly grating performances of all time. She either screams or throws herself about like a lunatic in every scene she's in, showing all the range of a baboon in heat. Sam Neil isn't much better, veering as he does between bewilderment and insanity and back again with absolutely nothing in between.
It doesn't work as a horror due to the utter absence of suspense, but neither does it work as an effective marital break-up drama, lacking the gravitas and subtlety needed for such an undertaking. The dialogue is embarrassingly inane and provides no insight whatsoever. Furthermore, there's no arc or pacing of any sort. The characters are as hysterical and nutty at the start as they are at the end and we never develop any empathy or understanding for them. 127 minutes is far too long to expect us to put up with such ridiculous histrionics. I can see how the film may have actually benefited from the wholesale cuts in the American version.
Another big problem is that it's not well photographed and its visuals are extremely bland. There's no effective lighting or contrast, and for all of Zulawski's odd angles and restless camera-work, its aesthetic remains exceptionally plain and off-putting. There's simply no atmosphere of any sort. It looks like an average TV movie.
It's kind of frustrating, because there are some good ideas floating beneath the surface. The doppelganger concept is interesting and the monster copulation and subway miscarriage are appropriately icky and surreal."
My vote for dumbest beep I've ever read on IMDB. -
jriddle73 — 13 years ago(February 27, 2013 05:35 AM)
bump
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jriddle73 — 11 years ago(August 22, 2014 12:42 AM)
I thought so too.
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jriddle73 — 3 years ago(October 10, 2022 07:14 PM)
An interesting notion of "saints"!
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