Simply great!
Nothing else to say. Loks like this movie is not often seen.
sharei have just seen it-and it isnt great!In fact i was really disappointed with it.
Comparing it to say pickpocket, au hasard balthazar and a man escaped it comes up short. It is as if Bresson is going through the motions. It only picks up really towrads the end.
I agree. The movie was not great, it was rather disappointing and left no message.
shareYeah I just watched it and agree. thought it was slow, bland and incredibly unengaging. half the time it was like no one could be bothered, even the actors. not my cup of tea, shame because A man escaped is utterly superb. maybe I expected a bit too much..
shareThis is his best movie by far. It is unique - even for him it is unique; and the fact that people don't watch it doesn't worry me.
shareThe movie was not great, it was rather disappointing and left no message.Oh, it definitely left a message. One that it repeatedly clobbered the viewer with, over and over again, until the viewer is fatigued and exhausted and just wants the protagonist to do the deed already. And that's why it was so disappointing. For once, I thought Bresson's ascetic, pure style became overkill when combined with the incredibly bleak subject matter, which proved to be remarkably unsubtle even for Bresson's standards. Whatever existential insights Bresson expertly weaves into his story/direction here lose all meaning for me when the protagonist is as helplessly irritating and insufferable as the one presented here (all those romantic entanglements weren't exactly compelling either) and when the themes of moral, spiritual decay and external destruction (as well as the protagonist's own bleak views) are repetitively communicated to me via a series of bland conversations. Definitely the worst Bresson I've seen.
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. share