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...then rent Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé). Just the thing if you ejoy the always wooden and uninspired acting of Catherine Deneuve and Emmanuelle Béart, neither ever being a good acress, this perhaps their low points, if that is possible.If you think the torture would stop at the merciful 90 minutes then think again. At 2 hours it is still as unfinished as it was at the start, moving at the same snail speed, with really not too much to report.
I think this might the be film for someone who considers the Solaris boring and empty. It will redefine the terms.
You should get your rope ready when it rolls over two hours and start soaping it when it hits 2 hours 15 nimutes. For the torture is still to continue for a bit longer.
However, if at 2 hours and 30 minutes you still hesitate with the noose around your neck, still not sure whether to kick that stool you are resting on, rejoice. For there are only about tree more minutes left.
So let go of the noose, sit back and get ready to revind. Tomorrow you will return the tape and forget about it.
To clenser your pallet watch Die Hard - this time it will look like Fellini.
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... I think you owe it to yourself to read the book if you haven't already. Arguably Stanislaw Lem’s best. Personally, I love the movie, but I admit that I sometimes fast-forward through that grueling drive to the spaceport; no dialog of any kind, just the monotonous hum of the car’s engine for ten goddamn minutes! My wife believes that this is characteristic of Russian movies and allows the audience to take advantage of the warm theater. You could show them a continuous loop of that driving scene (or even American network TV reruns *hack*) and they probably wouldn’t mind. ; )Eden, The Invincible, Futurological Congress, and Cyberiad aren't bad reads either...
naive to look at a film whose name is " le Temps Retrouve "
"Refound Times" This kind of promess no one holds,and certainly not,with wooden principals.
BWARKKK!:-)Rob
Shame on me ,I never get over to finish Marcel Proust I will try again..
My wife, who is an extremely sophisticated reader, loves him. She submerges in his prose and absorbs it through her skin.I think you should try again... better you than me :-)
I already have tried it..three times...It is fascinating, but it works of a kind of vaporific on my brain.
As an exquisite homosexual,he is maybe a ladies man..
He is not for me either. However the problem with the film was not the type of the original prose. As we have seen many times before virtually anythnig can be handled to perfection if the director is up to that task. And it is not speed, as my tastes would surely indicate.It was just an ineptitude.
I got into an argument with my wife over the two lead acresses. I felt that neither ever produced any fine acting, she believed that at least Emmanuelle Béart had a not bad a shot in the Un coeur en hiver. I thought there the film led her, and not the other way around. In the Manon she did't do anything besides just being there. While many people think of her when those films are mentioned, it was due to the three great male actors that it is so memorable.
And not even my wife could provide any defense of Catherine as actress.
You should have seen the original "Manon " film !
Day and night
I have not seen the Marcel Pagnol one - is that the ONE you mean? It is apparently respected... was it horrible?
Yes I mean the pagnol one,beautiful( remember the voice of this German soldier in The lost arch,when he open the Lada..Beautiful..yes all this films with Raimu ( the inegalable-no body was ever so good in French cinema) Fernandel...do you have seen his trilogie with Marius ? Ah ! la Provence !
The best.
Things like Le Diable et les dix commandements - who can forget those. We have see quite a few of his films... fortunately. My wife would kill for another chance to see him, but we could not find any films here.I have not seen the Mairus films, that stuff is VERY hard to get here, but I shall try. Do you mean the ones from 1931?
Yes ! I have the analog records,too,wonderful.i have the films on vhs as no dvd at the moment ...
You mean the " Cure of Cucugnan"?
the one with the devil who show him the pleasure of the table ( Ah , the French! ) and he speed up reading the mess on Chritmas night ( messe de minuit )
Or " le moulin " Where the man always have the same corn in it just to have it turning....
I think we already had that matter,Un coeur en Hivert,no one had a " brillant role in this film, but the sum of it make it an enjoyable moment,a little bit of tristesse,of miss occasion we all had some day...who knows ? A quite film,I love it,for three viewing.
But not a forth one.
Well, I could certainly let you go with that, except I think her husband really controlled the film.But if you liked that one - what do you think of La Belle Noiseuse?
What a monumental exercise in indulgence that one was!
Anyone who loved Manon because she danced there naked, must see La Belle, as the is there nude for full seven hours, or so it seems.
Is it not ironic that it was actually Michel Piccoli and not the naked beauty who was a treat to the eyes?
I did not see this one,only read about it...
I almost stop to see French films after the death of F .Truffaud.But I very like the 1930 / 1954 period...
After three pages of summing up who's present and who's not, who's wearing what and who's not, I'm outta there. Wonderful for having recreated the novel after Nikolaj Gogol invented it, but I can't waste my time with it:-)Did you read 'The Discovery of Heaven' by Harry Mulisch?
Much better and very THICK:-)
Robert
And do not forget the taste of food..he describe at lengh...The Discovery...no.
Now that I am getting old ,I have the tendency to reread,the Books I alwasy love..again and again...
I have to force myself,to break out,sometimes...from this bad habit.
I just finishing,at the moment,the complete work of S. Maugham..
And will continue with the letters of W. Churchill...
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