You need to learn about them European movies

Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

They are not like the American stuff you normally watch... they are insightful, philosophical, introvert, slow on the outside, but burning internally, with high passions bursting through the cold exterior like jets of super-overheated crap...

They also tend to be quite long... this one pulling the scale at about three and a half hours.

Truth be told... the first hour is unusual, entertaining and suspenseful.

The second hour is OK, less suspenseful, but still somewhat entertaining.

It is during the third hour that you are getting strong urge to switch channels... watching the actress' back as she is doing dishes for twenty five long screen minutes can be considered one of the most decadent ways of killing time, and I suspect even in Europe the sound of balls scratching gets loud at that point.

If you are a typical European pseudo-intellectual, then with ten minutes still to go you begin to think of uncle Pierre and his new life in America... his letters suddenly making more sense!

All in all, there is that school of thought that claims ANY new experience is valuable. Apparently this is the film for its practitioners.

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Topic - Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. - Victor Khomenko 06:00:18 01/17/11 (7)

RE: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. - patrickU 08:59:27 01/18/11 (5)

You need to learn about them European movies - Victor Khomenko 13:08:16 01/18/11 (4)

Chantal lost me, too. I was prepared to murder her at the 1/2 way point. nt - tinear 16:35:11 01/18/11 (3)

You never sit and watch paint dry? - Victor Khomenko 07:12:11 01/19/11 (2)

For the woman-going-crazy-in-the-apartment genre, "Repulsion" with the lovely - tinear 08:51:57 01/19/11 (1)

But it is way too short! - Victor Khomenko 08:56:18 01/19/11 (0)

I watched this........ - afilado 22:29:06 01/17/11 (0)

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You need to learn about them European movies - Victor Khomenko 13:08:16 01/18/11 (4)

Chantal lost me, too. I was prepared to murder her at the 1/2 way point. nt - tinear 16:35:11 01/18/11 (3)

You never sit and watch paint dry? - Victor Khomenko 07:12:11 01/19/11 (2)

For the woman-going-crazy-in-the-apartment genre, "Repulsion" with the lovely - tinear 08:51:57 01/19/11 (1)

But it is way too short! - Victor Khomenko 08:56:18 01/19/11 (0)

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