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In Reply to: For 90% of the movie, we're involved in an ensemble piece, with no posted by tinear on January 24, 2006 at 04:41:51:
Have you ever read the J J novel?
I see no break in the continuation of the story! It is an ensemble and every character is played with so much charm and coziness that it is most charming.
Now the only connection I can make with H dr B is with his "Comedie Humaine 2, if any....In my eyes a perfect film, as perfect one can be. BTW A J makes a fine performance all the way down.
In my view.
But it was JH who direct her. And that is the result.
Follow Ups:
"The Dead" is a short story, the last in the collection called "Dubliners" Like "The Dead", all the stories are epiphanies.
Hélas, in English it is not a " novel " but in French it is. My fault to use basically the same word from one language to the other within a different meaning...What do you say about Tin critic as you know this film as much I do!?
I haven't read the short story for 30 years and it didn't influence me. I stand by my opinion: the second piece is dis-jointed. The work doesn't hold together, there is missing a critical piece of her relationship with her husband.
Suddently to see her so emotional means less than if we knew her better; it almost seems like an affectation or directorial exaggeration.
But the film is based on Joyce' shoirt story whaich has those two parts. The whole point of the party is to set up the hotel scene
which shows how little the husband knows his wife.
How little we all knows us!
it does justice to a book but whether or not it stands alone as a work of art.
Yes, of course the party is setting up the last scene but the film doesn't do it well enough.
Those who are praising the film show their bias by their inability to argue for the film w/out referencing the story.
There is nowhere near enough of the Huston and husband character in the long party scenes to make them seem worthy of center stage later.
I made several points which remain unanswered.
The part you think is disjointed I think is the capper, the top-off to the whole previous shebang.I had read Joyce, but not The Dead when I first saw this film. Not only do I think this movie stands alone as a work of art, I think it is wise and beautiful and eligiac in way that very few other films are.
And ANgelica Houston is fine in it.
So - we disagree.
No one can can deny that it is a beauty of a film, but one that grow on you. maybe Tin will change his mind after the third viewing?!
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Yes there is a missing relationship, you are fully right.
Like in real life.Ha-ha...
Your un-fairfully,
PS: Just visioning " Withnail ".
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