Les créatures (1966)

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1. 

   Cromset

   Not in the least bit awful.
   If you have a taste for loose narratives, or enjoy the work of directors like David Lynch, you may enjoy this strange little film. Beautifully shot, and full of atmosphere. 3 years 3 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   Agnès Varda's The Creatures is a very odd film, and I don't think it works, but it's still intriguing enough to warrant a viewing. Michel Piccoli and Catherine Deneuve are recovering from a car accident in a resort town and he, a writer, starts to imagine and write stories involving the citizenry. Among those stories is one about a mad scientist causing people to act according to their worse natures for a monochromatically-red minute, and Piccoli gets into a chess game with him over the souls of various people. It's a writer's tale, wanting the best for his characters, but also requiring them to suffer for the story's sake, and so it's the director's story too. The added frisson is that these are real people (in the story), and the film blurs the line between what's real and what's part of Piccoli's imagination. And between the accident, this structure, and various potential clues, the audience is completely within its rights to wonder if Deneuve's character is really there or just another figment. I don't care for the answer, or lack of answer, which accompanies (or doesn't) the abrupt ending. The color filters, interesting special effects, and chessboard motif running through the film elevate the material, but I'm still a bit baffled by it, and not in a good way. 1 year 2 months ago
3. 

   Bolero Tenebris

   Just plain awful.
   Apparently, '60s are full of these ''experimental'' garbage. 3 years 3 months ago

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