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Lots of wonderful moments (even if climax falls short) :

posted 8 years ago by DeepCinema
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Some that stay with me:

~ the girl's arrival: being driven through a blasted, black volcanic landscape...

~ the mother spying on the girl's naked, tattooed back after she'd bathed...

~ the mother making cocoa-based pasta ~ reminiscent of Binoche's *Chocolat* which made the recipe all the more an aphrodisiac...

~ the mother desperately inhaling her son's breath from the inflated raft...

~ the girl needing some Eros (Life-force) to counter the atmosphere of Thanatos (Death), so dressing in red and dancing...

~ the visitation by the son in the watery, liminal space of the bath-tub...

~ the hug between the mother & girl at the last...

[–] valis1949 7 years ago

Because there was no real resolution, I think that the 'wonderful moments' fell kind of flat.

At the end of the film, if we knew what happened the previous summer, what happened to the boy, and more insight into the relationship between the mother and son, and the boy and his girlfriend, the 'wonderful moments' would have had a proper context and the film would resonant much more deeply.

A work of art can be both poignant and evocative, yet still be reasonable and sensible. I'm sure that the director is aware of this, and consciously decided to make a more ambiguous film, but I disagree.

I still loved the film.

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