I just wanted to state that I love this movie. It has a Godardian aproach and is filled with freedom. The editing is also real smart.
If you have the chance; see it, it will be an insiration.
I watched this a while ago, but although I don't think it's among my favorites it's certainly an interesting movie. The limited location (on the rooftop) was an original approach.
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He said Godard-ian, so the self-indulgence kinda goes without saying.
I liked it. I like how the excellent music combines with the setting and makes everything calm and serene even though there's awful things happening. You can see the influence on Directors like Tsukamoto and Miike, but I found this a lot more palatable. It's over the top and grotesque in its content, but not its execution. Very nice.
Hm. If anything, Godard never was self-indulgent in the least; he made tons of relatively short films, all extremely different, none particularly in love with themselves or their ideas, but certainly inspiring lots of lesser directors with their style (as well as some of the greatest directors of all time, like Kitano). Godard made tons of contributions to cinema but never lingered on them, never felt the need to throw them in your face; Godard is a prick, but his films are brilliant. Only, like, two of his films ever made any money, so he's basically just spent all his money, and producer's money, for the love of making films, he's one of the only filmmakers who makes brilliant big budget avant-garde films, that nearly no one sees, just for the love of filmmaking (again, Kitano -- who has one successful film ever; he uses all the money he gets from acting, and tv shows, for his unsucessful but genius movies ; and JON JOST also comes to mind, this guy has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and has maybe 10 fans in the whole world). I find Miike a bit more self-indulgent, granted I've only seen about 65 of his movies, and I actually like what may be his most self indulgent (IZO).
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pre·ten·tious: characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
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I'm a hardly fan of Japanese films, but this was one of the best Japanese films I've seen. Hachiko (1987) will always be my favorite one.
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