Information about the character unraveling beneath loud music. Now we have a paper character we feel nothing about and know everything about. Has she opened her mouth yet? Here is a paper-serious partner. Here's a vacation among paper relatives. They have kids who act like kids. It makes the couple argue about having kids. One wants kids and the other not. A dancing scene issues. Immediately we think "some unfortunate disaster is going to disrupt the party and end the…
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The Voyeur 1994
Watched this silently as the only version of it I could find was poorly dubbed, but it's beautifully shot and also seems to be one of the more serious and philosophical things Tinto did. I should remember to rewatch it sometime in the future when I can get my hands on the original.
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And Along Came a Spider 2003
Great idea for a documentary but lacks the knowledge that would have had pushed it that extra step and made it a masterpiece. Almost all of the brilliance lies in that which is documented and the decision to record it, not the aesthetical or interviewing skills of the filmmaker.
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Love 2015
The main difference between Gaspar Noe and many other arthouse filmmakers seems to be the fact that he wants to show everything; a desire usually associated with mainstream cinema—with audiences who can't understand things themselves. Noe's somewhat childish obsession with making you understand what he's doing is one of his least likable attributes, from the "stop watching" warning in I Stand Alone to the "time devours everything" resolution of Irreversible to the "Murphy's Law" explanation in this film.
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