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Has anyone see this film?It was a very long movie--2:16--but a very good movie, starring Audrey Tautou and Gaspard Ulliel. I saw Gaspard interviewed (using the word loosely) by Gary Coghill, and this interview piqued my interest in the film.
The scenes of WWI warfare, interspersed throughout the movie, were horrific, and had the kind of realism Spielberg portrayed in the Normandy landing at the first of Saving Private Ryan, though not as frenetic. (I am not intending to criticize either movie by the comparison).
This movie may bore some, but patience is rewarded.
all the best, townsend
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A Very Long Engagement. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's visualization of a novel by Sebastien Japrisot, a name firmly entrenched in the mystery and suspense genres: The Sleeping-Car Murders, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, One Deadly Summer, others. While I have read much of his genre work, and with much pleasure, this one has eluded me. It is plainly in the grips of a greater ambition, a WWI-period romance about a tuba-playing, polio- crippled cutie (Audrey Tautou), pounding the trail of her soul mate (Gaspard Ulliel) who vanished on the front lines at the quaintly named bunker of Bingo Crepuscule. So, there's still a mystery element in it, and even a professional detective (not one to inspire much confidence), but the overriding feeling of the thing is expansively, unconstrainedly "novelistic," with scraps of information gathered willy-nilly from different time zones and a narrator to fill in the gaps. Neither the pet composition -- giant faces floating in front of a blurred background on a convex canvas -- nor the monochromatic, butterscotchy color manages to redeem the film as cinematic. (Though the first shot, of a broken Christ hanging from a cross by one hand, is a grabber.) The scrambled structure never quite enables you to believe in the Great Love or to follow the train of detection. And the winkingly tall-tale tone disengages you to the point of uninterest.Duncan Shepherd
It got so bad critics in France that I did not dare to see it, he-he...I may when it comes out on DVD....
Patrick,I saw it last night and enjoyed it very much. The critics in France like Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhof so I don't put too much stock in what they have to say.
I saw 3 films on Christmas Day (the perfect Jewish Christmas + Chinese food) that were a mixed bag.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Bill Murray had a few really funny moments but the rest of the film was horribly dull. Even slower than Rushmore, if that was even possible.
Sideways - I'm probably five years too young to truly appreciate it, but this film was one of the best of 2004.
Million Dollar Baby - I saw 58 new films at the theater in 2004 and this film was the best by a huge margin. Clint Eastwood has become a very serious director. If Hilary Swank doesn't sweep every award show for her performance, then there is no longer any real appreciation of great acting anymore. I really didn't care for her in her prior films, but she was spectacular in this one. Morgan Freeman was great.
Over the weekend, Turner and the History Channel played most of the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood films and you would never imagine after watching them that Eastwood would mature into someone making something like Million Dollar Baby. He also did the music, which I really enjoyed.
Tosh Callahan
"I think this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell them you're Jewish"
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Or is that how it is in Spain?
Think about it a bit first, before you write so insultingly.clark
...I still find it confusing, not just to a foreigner: in it you simply dismiss the comment made earlier by Ian, laugh out loudly (probably, in a most pleasant bass...), and then mention two of his films. Now, trying to be honest, please read it again, and tell me how, without any previous references in that thread about your liking or disliking of those two films, or of Clint Eastwood´s directorial abilities, how can a reader know, just from reading your post, infer, much less deduct, that you are being ironic, or sarcastic..., instead of simply dismissing him because you value those films as poor ones, as PdL did, just a couple of thread lines down...And now, looking at the whole thread, I see that it was not just me: Ian read your post like I did, and your response to Ian, the same you have included in your answer to my post, in which you try to ridicule my ability to understand the subtleties of the English language (what a pompous ass you are, clark...), was posted by you much later than my post..., and you have the gall to include it as proof of my nonunderstanding!
It is you who doesn´t write clearly, clark.
clark, you are not just ridicule: you are deeply, cowardly dishonest, beyond the usual standard in ultraright wingers. And your omphalocentric attitude is pitiable.
And I can´t remember having specifically included you in the group of mental midgets, but sure you know better than I...
All this said, I see no reason to apologize to you.
Regards
BF
...since you choose, even after reflection, to continue your in-my-face rudeness, there are two things I must say. No, three.-- Your untoward pride makes you immune to nuance in English. Read Tosh again: "Let's see what you can direct that is better than even Police Academy and we'll talk..." There's a smile in that, the sort of humor your insulting posts totally lack.
-- And because of #3 below, I can now say that you behave like an arrogant little jerk whose odious pronouncements on almost everything and everyone American -- OK, not even American -- well deserve placement on the shitpile where most of us toss them anyway.
-- You will have no further commerce with me on this or any other forum. Any comment by you will go unread, so you may unleash your full rotten vocabulary-dogs without fear of reprisal, you sniveling piecea'...
clark
***clark, you are not just ridicule: you are deeply, cowardly dishonest, beyond the usual standard in ultraright wingers.You forgot that his feet stink and he snors.
And your interpretation of clark's political views is related to the film discussions exactly how?
Unmanly.
Vic,Even though I strongly disagree with Clark on Eastwood, there is some merit to trashing some of his really bad films prior to Million Dollar Baby.
Every director makes a few stinkers, as you pointed out with Lubitsch. He was still a great director, but moviemaking is a learning experience.
Eastwood, however, has made a GREAT film with Million Dollar Baby. There is real substance here. The characters are not two-dimensional cut-outs whose actions easily fade into memory.
Wes Anderson is the exact opposite of Eastwood. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou could have caught fire in the projector and it would have been merciful. I turned to my uncle about forty minutes into the film and asked for a cyanide capsule.
Show this film to the Iraqi terrorist thugs and they'll surrender willingly.
Tosh
"I think this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell them you're Jewish"
Rivaled only by that POS known as 21 Grams. I still can't understand why folks hold these 2 films (River and Grams) in such high regard.
j
But he could manage to recreate the feeling of the life from John Huston quite well I think.
Mystic was poorly acted, which boils down to poor directing. Eastwood cannot direct at all. Emperors new Clothes.
Clark,Let's see what you can direct that is better than even Police Academy and we'll talk...
Are you going to Vegas?
Tosh
"I think this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell them you're Jewish"
...for some time.Yes I'm going to Vegas but I guess we can't talk...
cj
Tightrope? Forgettable. Weren't those his clunkers? Absolute Power, was that him? Please.
A pity, too-the book (by Michael Connelly) was a great one. Clint was far too old to play the character of FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, for one thing.
Hey I post an answer long ago and somehow it is...lost...!
I will have a look at " A very long...." I see it the way you do Clint Eastwood is getting better and better, and I long for his next film, he seems to make an honest job, he is no genius but a solid working man.
I will wait for " Sideways " and Million $ Baby " well we will not be workless on this Forum!
Bonsoir mon vieux Tosh!Patrick
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