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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
I'm noticing a ludicrous tendency among modern "cinephiles" to watch these types of slow movies as a communal experience and then complain online about how "boring" or "pretentious" they are.
If you had only heard every other beat of a piece of music, would you be qualified to criticise it? If you watched half of the film with your eyes closed? Having a chat every minute or two obviously precludes the viewer from engaging with a film, not only by…
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Every moral decision Kaji makes is categorically "right" but it's presented in the film as some cataclysm, like when he kills someone in necessary self-defence and screams "I'm a monster!" Here, the film's message is not "his moral system is being challenged," but that "he has done something immoral." Kaji doesn't particularly have an arc, and moments like these seem trying to inject him with one—the film is most successful with Kaji taking us through the sociological critique, not through himself.
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