wow....this movie is near the top on my list.
this movie is great. i dont quite understand how it ended though...maybe that was the point i guess. but the movie was GREAT, and i need to find the soundtrack also.
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I agree; ever find the soundtrack? The score to 'Amateur' is quite similar and available on Matador records.
shareJust watched the DVD last night. The soundtrack is credited to Hal Hartley.
(Note: one of the previous posters really didn't like the music.)
I enjoyed the film well enough. Of Hal Hartley's oeuvre I've probably only seen
Amateur. NST has a similar feel. It reminds me of the term "Alienation drama" from high school English, in the sense that there is a great distance between
us and the movie. We are never really asked to "suspend our disbelief".
I realize this is a disallowed question but: in a future life where I am
Letterman I will ask Hal Hartley if he really knows what he's doing, or
if the alienation effect is purely ingenuous. In either case, it works, but
sometimes it's a bit too much "in your face". In that sense similar to
"Kill Bill", which I also saw this week and enjoyed (though Tarantino strikes me as more of a hipster than an artist -- I prefer the less cool but more intelligent Hartley).
-ag
Same here. Tarantino is all style (ot that that's bad), while Hal's films have a heart and are more thought provoking. Have you by any chance seen "The book of life"? I just love how it ends.
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