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It has to be because that's the only way a sane person could survive 1:58 of boredom. You have to become obsessed with the idea that something might actually happen in the next 10 minutes. And when the predictable end comes you suddenly want those lost two hours of your life back.A wealthy young scion in Paris has a live-in girlfriend (emphasis friend) with whom he is in love and totally obsessed. Being young, wealthy, and ferried about in a chauffer driven Rolls would make most guys a party animal. Naah, not for Simon. He's got Sylvie Testud living with him (nearly capitve) down the hall involved in a truly twisted up relationship. Simon must follow her around, get his other girlfriend to accompany her everywhere, and pry into her evey thought and affair. He doesn't trust her, thinks she's a lesbian, interrogates her in every conversation, and is generally a very sick poodle. He's so yammered up he decides to break up with her only to have her back at the last moment--leading us to a very predictable end.
Don't worry about the end, though, because I've already wasted too much of our time thus far on this celluloid overdose of sleeping sauce. Forget I ever brought it up.
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I have not seen The Captive, but since you are in the mood for something slow and gut-wrenching, consider The Hunger (Sult) based on Knut Hamsun novel... films like that give one the sense of insightful character studies... heck, I thought I would never use that term...
After giving up on "The Glass Bead Game" decades ago I have eschewed heavy lit.The Captive's fault may lie in casting. They were all light weight, mono-dimensional--nearly vapid. I felt no pain nor learned anymore about human nature.
If this is the best adaptation of Proust I won't be seeing anymore. Color me boor.
Try "Remembrance of Things Past's 'Swann in Love'", or any of Balzac, Gide, or Stendhal (if you aren't enthralled by his "The Red and the Black"... you're hopeless ;--()).
If you're in the mood for some "modern" French lit and you want a fast read, try "The Stranger," by Camus.
Don't give up on haute cuisine because a chef fucked up on one dish.
This one was real slow too.....
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054936/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9YWltZXogdm91c3xmdD0xfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1 (Open in New Window)
One of the few Proust adaptations that doesn't make me cringe. It's slow, brutal, and difficult, but all in a good a way. It's also the kind of film that one can't get out of one's head. I found myself thinking of it often throughout the days after first seeing it. Usually a good sign.A film that rewards the perceptive and perplexes and bores the boors.
I'll burp, fart, and pick my nose elsewhere.
That explains a lot about you, Donald.
It's all about you. Wouldn't want to go "Sideways" on us.
I enjoy being challenged and asked to think about what's going on. Films that spell everything out, or are otherwise easy and pander to the audience aren't entertaining, they're dull.Akerman in La captive , as in most of her best films, leaves things open and expects the viewer to be intelligent enough to work things out. That's how it ought to be.
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