Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
rewatch. noticing for the first time that the title is not apt at all ?
this is available on the largedoor productions website, along with the script which i would highly recommend having a look at. the decision to slap a voiceover on something originally envisioned as completely wordless was a mistake. it makes it seems as though the words lead the images when the opposite is true. poking fun at christianity in this way is now considered exceedingly uncool and played out but that's not angela carter's fault.
still worth watching for some interesting and visually appealing rostrum camera work and as a relic from the times when the UK's channel 4 was considered edgy
liked it. quite silly. i had read beforehand some criticisms of the satire specifically so i was surprised when the film did not really contain any. pure absurdism, folks. invites the satirical interpretation then explicitly mocks it in the next breath. at most there's some intentionally lazy parody but the real joke is almost a kind of anti-satire: try not glean your own personal political message from these heads of state subjected to wacky scenarios if you can! imho a…