Easily the most effective, intimate and creative use of camcorder that I’ve seen since Inland Empire. At no point does the texture step between the audience and subject.
its lack of visual detail perhaps carries a thematic relevance in a movie that deals in omission and ambiguity. One of the girls remarks “ we are not friends because we tell each other everything, but because there are questions we don’t ask and don’t answer.” What kinds of things do we…
Incredible gag fest that moves with such breakneck joke per second rhythm that it can’t help but be a little hamstrung by its musical segments
My jaw was on the floor within the first 90 seconds and I don’t think I picked it up for an hour and a half. Ahead of its time in so many ways that modern filmmaking still feels behind somehow
Watching this the day after it won the Oscar’s for best score and best cinematography. While I didn’t see all of the year’s nominees, these victories are certainly well earned. Like its subject, it is a powerful monument to human mastery of expression and our will to survive.
I think there is far more dualism and ambiguity to the film’s concluding line than people give it credit for. “It’s the destination, not the journey” may seem without its context like…
Phenomenal! A few casting missteps which I’m willing to overlook for Nosferatu having a big mustache and long visible cock.
As with much of Eggars’ films, it is not without a reactionary subtext. In this case, provincial medieval virtue and superstition being necessary to rescue a secular, modern society from the depths of its own rationalist consumerism. Indeed he travels to Wisborg by means of commerce, both literally as cargo on a merchant vessel and as a consequence of a…
