The kind of fantasy action movie where swords are laying around whenever you need them and every view from the castle in the valley is a thousand feet in the air.
God Rohmer is exhausting with his constant dialog. In the corporate video world our project manager has a saying when he is deciding whether to take on a video or not: Should this be an email? In the case of Claire’s Knee, perhaps this should have been a novel. He is the only director I can think of whose films would work just fine as audiobooks for 90% of their runtime.
And don’t get me started on the casual exploration of pedophilia in this film, or an adult man describing putting his hand on a minor’s knee as “the most courageous thing I’ve ever done.” Rohmer presents it all as an intellectual exercise by free-spirited adults but the underlying views of love as fleeting bouts of desire unconnected to friendship is frankly juvenile.
The first act is hilarious and makes great use of the all-star cast. Then it slips into tedious cliches and product placements so egregious that Disney had to put a content warning at the beginning.
Maybe don’t. Nothing about this film is competent. It’s like they spent the entire budget on the cast and had nothing left over for the rest of the film. The script was indecipherable at times, the directing was nonexistent, the camera only had one trick (medium shot), and the great cast brought nothing more than their own personalities to their performances.
A masterpiece that grew on me so very slowly. Typically films-of-a-certain-length invite you to inhabit the physical spaces of their worlds, like Satantango or Dekalog. This one makes you inhabit the psyche of its main character, which is a claustrophobic feeling for the first 14 hours until the epilogue blows the lid off.
Sorry. Did not love this. While there were some amusing insults and moments of idiocy, it was one note sounded loudly throughout the entire film. If I closed my eyes, every character was identical.
All the elements that made the first one great fun are present: an all-star cast, a clever whodunit scenario, an unlikely female hero, and more than one revealing plot twist. But
the crime and criminal at the center of the case are ultimately so unimaginative that
the story feels unworthy of the “world’s greatest detective.”
When you think you and your friends are cooler than they really are so you film them doing nothing for hours, put two reels on screen at a time and don't bother to edit anything out.
Visually as striking as it’s subject matter. On the other hand, with zero narrative structure if you’ve seen 20 minutes you’ve essentially seen the whole film.
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God Rohmer is exhausting with his constant dialog. In the corporate video world our project manager has a saying when he is deciding whether to take on a video or not: Should this be an email? In the case of Claire’s Knee, perhaps this should have been a novel. He is the only director I can think of whose films would work just fine as audiobooks for 90% of their runtime.And don’t get me started on the casual exploration of pedophilia in this film, or an adult man describing putting his hand on a minor’s knee as “the most courageous thing I’ve ever done.” Rohmer presents it all as an intellectual exercise by free-spirited adults but the underlying views of love as fleeting bouts of desire unconnected to friendship is frankly juvenile.
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The first act is hilarious and makes great use of the all-star cast. Then it slips into tedious cliches and product placements so egregious that Disney had to put a content warning at the beginning.Movie comment on Juventude Em Marcha
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Gorgeously photographed with natural light and shadows, so you can actually watch the paint peel.Movie comment on Maybe I Do
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Maybe don’t. Nothing about this film is competent. It’s like they spent the entire budget on the cast and had nothing left over for the rest of the film. The script was indecipherable at times, the directing was nonexistent, the camera only had one trick (medium shot), and the great cast brought nothing more than their own personalities to their performances.Movie comment on The Super Mario Bros. Movie
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Totally nailed the video game homage, but it’s like it was written by the writers of the Trolls movies.Movie comment on Xia nü
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Better quality here, although missing the last minute:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Merry_frolics_of_Satan_(1906).webm
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Clumsy editing and a muddy timeline. Guy Ritchie seems to have run out of new ideas.Movie comment on Berlin Alexanderplatz
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A masterpiece that grew on me so very slowly. Typically films-of-a-certain-length invite you to inhabit the physical spaces of their worlds, like Satantango or Dekalog. This one makes you inhabit the psyche of its main character, which is a claustrophobic feeling for the first 14 hours until the epilogue blows the lid off.Movie comment on The Witcher: Blood Origin
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Sorry. Did not love this. While there were some amusing insults and moments of idiocy, it was one note sounded loudly throughout the entire film. If I closed my eyes, every character was identical.Movie comment on Glass Onion
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All the elements that made the first one great fun are present: an all-star cast, a clever whodunit scenario, an unlikely female hero, and more than one revealing plot twist. ButMovie comment on Chelsea Girls
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Visually as striking as it’s subject matter. On the other hand, with zero narrative structure if you’ve seen 20 minutes you’ve essentially seen the whole film.Showing items 1 – 25 of 163