SnoozeFest
No amount of coffee could keep me awake for this...
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No babble, just beauty & depth.
shareNo babble, just beauty & depth.
The Great Beauty was a richly layered film, at once satirical, cynical, and reverential. Toni Servillo was magnificent as an aging playboy suddenly weary of his old lifestyle. The film was also a love letter to Rome, with its ancient beautiful architecture existing alongside the modern.
These two films reveal layers of meaning if one is patient and observant, not unlike a museum visitor who spends time enveloped in the artwork rather than rushing through.
And all the pieces matter (The Wire)share
I am not sure how anyone could miss the beauty in the everyday that this film displays, nor the tender love for its characters, including Vienna itself, nor the obvious comparisons between the work of Breugel and what you see in this film. Altogether this is a rich film with far more going on than Iron Man 6 or whatever else is out at the moment.
Maybe try again in 20 years.
I am not sure how anyone could miss the beauty in the everyday that this film displays, nor the tender love for its characters, including Vienna itself, nor the obvious comparisons between the work of Breugel and what you see in this film.
I also loved how the camera juxtaposed the museum's art with the outside reality of the city: birds on canvases; birds perched atop buildings outside looking like canvasses -- masks of the dead on display in the museum; Anne's cousin lying comatose in the hospital -- the peasants' daily lives in Bruegel's paintings; people walking about on the streets, participating in flea markets, rummaging through discarded items, just going about their daily business. And how at the end Johann seemed to be making his own painting by commenting on slides of his city. Will his art endure as a snapshot of his times, much as the great art endures as a window on the past.
Art and reality merge seamlessly here, and the patient viewer is rewarded with a rich and sublime film.
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