Definitely a worthwhile watch of a Sayat Nova-like tableaux visualisation of Carl Orff's masterpiece. Very scenic, sometimes nightmarish yet there is a lot of beauty.
I am pretty shocked how unknown it is in all honesty. But yeah, if you love classical music and visual representations, this could be of interest.
Probably the longest film I will ever see in my lifetime, so much so it was made into a TV miniseries, spanning over a whopping 15 hours. It was Fassbinder's true masterpiece and Fassbinder long wanted to adapt the 1929 novel. Fassbinder has hinted that he wanted as such even through his films referencing the novel as early as 1969 with films such as Love is Colder Than Death (1969), Gods of the Plague (1970) with characters' names Franz Biberkopf.…
How can I start this review without the cliched "I am lost for words" I will never know. Let me start by saying this is probably the most batshit crazy film I've seen in perhaps two years, probably surpassing Daisies in that sense yet without the psychedelic lense Daisies has.
It is a black comedy-drama that could also be considered a period drama, spanning from the beginnings of WWII, the Nazi takeover of Yugoslavia, the Tito years, right to the…
A filmic masterpiece which drearily encapsulates a vision of humanity's end in a few days of radioactive mist. We see a man search for his son Eric, who constantly writes letters to but never successfully sends during the nuclear apocalypse (the letters give insight into his feelings, whether it be denial, optimism or despair, all narrated under a hopeless monotonous voice). Society slowly disintegrates into madness and hope fizzles into the abyss.
This film is completely tinted in blue, dirty…
