- I can see how some might feel compelled to call this the French New Wave's Next. Whether Eddie Constantine lives up to Nicolas Cage is a different question.
- The feats of light and sound that routinely occur in this movie are, in my opinion, plenty to look at.
- Godard clearly read Nick Land while writing this one, and once again tries desperately to assert his own intellectual depth by having a woman stare into the camera and…
In Brief
A broodingly stark meditation on the assorted agonies and ecstasies that come with the banal fact of having a body.
At Length
Bergman here presents human existence as a fundamentally isolated experience, in which everyone is trapped in their own flesh and genuine understanding between people is impossible. The blunt inelegance of nearly every form of communication is made bitterly clear over the course of the main characters' stopover in an ambiguous country on the brink of civil…
Our most cherished experiences crumble to sand and burn away to ash with time’s relentless passage, yet still they somehow manage to reside within us as shimmering memories that no image, painted or otherwise, can ever fully capture. Sad!
