If the professional reviewers liked this tripe, I'd like to vote them off the island and use what was saved to send the filmmakers to film school. And I'd like to be paid for the time I wasted watching this. I'll prorate for the last third, since I fast forwarded through that part.
I agree with Faxthtax. I found all the talking heads parts very distracting and overdone. The music should have been front and center with commentary either downplayed or provided on a commentary track that could be toggled on and off. This can easily be resolved by doing a disk rerelease with a second of the music only, as Faxthtax suggested. Given what we have, I can only give this a 5 score.
This is excellent (and not at all well publicized). Other than the Truffaut/Hitchcock interviews, this is about the best I’ve ever seen on a film director’s work on a specific film!
There is no nuance to this film. One party is all good, the other all bad, and we are told nothing about how they got there, either individually or together. If we are to ponder how the French legal system handles cases like this, and if reforms are needed, we are offered no clue. The judge's decision is on the side of a phone conversation we don't get to hear. There is a subplot dealing with a pregnancy that is dropped completely. The party sequence is largely confounding; are the key characters bothered, disturbed, concerned, or just partying. Who knows? I watched this right after Marriage Story, which is far superior, with the depth I expected to see similarly here.
This is a zombie movie. If you like that kind of thing, fine, but you should know going into it this is what you're getting. I'm floored why the critic reviews are as high as they are. Ebert would have given it a thumbs up, Siskel a thumbs down.
Unbelievably pretentious and boring. Telling that critics review scores are high, and viewers review scores (I've seen elsewhere) notably lower. Perhaps the critics are not willing to take the risk to say "The Emperor is not wearing any clothes!" I look forward to the sequel, "New Yorkers Using Public Toilets".
Yes, the photography was good (although it's the locales largely to be credited for this), but the storyline, such as it is, is not at all compelling. You'll wait and wait, but nothing of substance happens, and the acting styles don't work here either. Ahh, if only the professional reviewers had helped to direct me away from this one!
