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28 Walk Outs At TIFF North American Premiere

posted 9 years ago by TimViper1
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Just saw the North American premiere at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). About 20 minutes in I was wondering when the mass exodus would begin.. it was shortly after. There isn't an adjective invented to describe how slow this was. And before the pretentious "what were you expecting, Transformers?" replies, I saw Leviathan and Winter Sleep at TIFF last year and those were both great, but in comparison to the pace of this film, they might as well have been Rambo films.

The most entertaining part of the film was watching all the walk outs, it was the only thing that kept me going. My official count was 28... at a FESTIVAL. So I'll let that speak for itself. Unless you're trying to induce a coma, be forewarned.

[–] 235SCOPE 8 years ago

Ten minutes into it, I couldn't stand it anymore.

I have never fast-forwarded as much with another film before, and even in fast forward mode the film was too slow.

Beautiful cinematography delivered with utter contempt for human patience.

The men emote, somewhat. The women are stone faced through the entire godforsaken thing.

God help me.

5 out of 10.

[–] ArigatouNosferatu 8 years ago

Great film. 0 walkouts at my screening, and those are just average cinemagoers.

[–] stardama69 8 years ago

I really liked it too, even though I had some trouble going into it. But after that it was a mesmerizing experience through and through.

[–] china_oi 7 years ago

trying to explain why a film is good from a cinematic art perspective is as hard as to explain why certain pieces of clothing from fashion runways are not just "pieces of *beep* cloth", or why most pieces of work in museums are just "somebody took a *beep* with paint on a frame". Usually people will come with arguments such as. "oh, but I loved tom Ford's winter collection" and "but I saw a film that is slow and foreign once and I liked it" or "I really like Mona Lisa, how dare you say I have no understand of art". Most of times what they enjoyed is meant for mass consumption, and often they just cite names that they know that are widely accepted to get through their argument.

In the end of the day, art is subjective and there is no strict assessment. It is all a matter of biased opinions based on one's preference, experience and logic. The real difference is that while some people's opinions matter, others' don't. And I think my fellow imdb keyboard warriors know where your opinion stand ;)