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4.235.200.5
This is their third film and, like the first two, it's soooo cinema verité. The camera lovingly lingers... and lingers... and lingers on a carpentry instructor as he goes about... instructing. We are also the privleged onlookers as he completes many of his other mundane tasks.
But there is more. Into this quotidian life comes a mysterious young student. Mysterious because we are told nothing about why the heretofore almost comatose carpenter suddenly shows some pulse.
After many minutes, the delicious secret is thrust upon us and we are prepared for "the event."
Well, I have never seen a film which created such ambivalent feelings in me.
I truly cannot say more about it without disclosing the plot points which would destroy the film.
I would venture that those that enjoy Tarkovsky and Bergman might just like this.
Though curious, it is a legitimate expression of film art.
I am a bit amazed the lead actor won a French Oscar for his work, however...
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I do not know his competition for the French oscar the year he won the award for this film, but, I greatly admired his work in this film, as he does not hit a wrong note, he does not act theatrical. He maintains a sullen appearance, but communicates, through facial gestures and his eyes, that there is so much more percolating below the surface. Even when the point of confrontation arrives, he does so more as a real human would do as opposed to a film caricature. A film caricature would have him respond with some type of violence. He simply wants answers. Penn's The Crossing Guard would be the closest American film to this French gem, and itself is very good.
ambivalent. Yes, Olivier's performance is "life-like" but where does that become wooden, mannikin-like?
I've never seen the Crossing Guard, not especially appreciating Penn's work in the next film with Nicholson (The Promise?) but since you're enthusiastic...
I wouldn't characterize it as wooden at all, just effectively understated.If you doubt his abilities, see the Dardennes' La promesse .
It's worth seeing just for David Morse's performance.
"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
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