alserrano — 9 years ago(April 20, 2016 03:04 AM)

Until now I thought it was a flawed film, full of pieces of the better cinema I've seen and also the weirdest pace ever.
Yesterday, watching it in the big screen, I thought it was a masterpiece. A wonderful piece of cinema which takes you exactly where the author wanted to take you: to a messy noisy time. The sense of "this is the last moment of our happiness" in every frame, the perfect symbolic meaning of everything, the heavy political leaning, some shots which are so perfect that made me cry (deaths with the house on fire, Huppert in the lake, the waltz in the barn of course, the whole final battle) It is very unconventional in the sense that no characters are sympathetic - indeed, they are mostly a bunch of hypocrites, the main character above them all - and it takes its time to just tell things, but there is pure power behind everything, pure cinematic power. Masterpiece, without a doubt, that it took me some years to fully appreciate.