This film is remarkable - seamless, timeless, torturous, and noir. Emmanuelle Beart is astonishingly captivating. I can't believe that I am only the 2nd person to comment on it! Please see this, it will open your eyes from start to finish.
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I'm only halfway through, but I think this may well be the best film I have ever seen... it just epitomises beauty in every way. Why don't they make more movies like this?
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Because it's difficult to find women as beautiful and charming as Emmanuele Beart. She sure made the 3+ hours a lot faster.
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Agree, terrific movie, I had the 4 hours version and it felt like it was hour long.
Emmanuelle Beart helped in that department tho, had a feeling I could watch her for hours.
Like all Rivette, it's seriously stripped down and stretched out, but it does occasionally achieve some kind of near-hypnotic rhythm I guess. Even so, it probably wouldn't have hurt if he'd cut down on at least some of those ultra-abundant instances of doodling; I'm not sure the damned thing by all means had to be 4 hours long.
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I'm not such a huge fan of this film -- especially with the passing of time, as I find it does not stick in the mind like Rivette's best work does. But seeing as you enjoyed this enough to give it a 7, franz, I think you'd like The Story of Marie and Julien and perhaps The Duchess of Langeais. As I've said before, I think the former is Rivette's masterpiece.
sharePretentious crap. Yes a pretty nude but nothing remotely filmic about it.
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