Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on October 03, 2003 at 06:48:21

Yes, if you rent Dillinger è morto - the 1969 film by Marco Ferreri.

If you would like to see how dated can a film become in just short thirty years - rent it. Then call it anti-classic.

Two great actors, plus Annie wearing pretty much nothing at all - and still a bone chilling bore.

Of curse you WILL find some moments to remember in it.

Amazingly I fully expect some to like it - perhaps even to love it. As it is as anti-Hollywood as it can be - in that respect (but only in THAT respect) it competes head-on with the gems like Persona... nuff said, you say? Well, perhaps, if that's your only aspiration.

I can perfectly undestand someone being completely absorbed in the hour-long non-action with a sudden (but not really unexpected) ending. After all, as Checkhov used to say, if in the first act of the play you see the rifle on the wall, you can be sure it will fire by the act three (paraphrasing loosely, of course). Anyone familiar with that law will not be shocked by the ending.

Letting the honey run down Annie's spine, licking it off - hmmmmm.... what exactly does THAT remind me of? Back to my time machine - but of course - the kaka of "Nine 1/2 weeks"! Kim or Annie? Hard decisions...

Actually... actually... strange feeling. I started writing this on a clearly negative note, yet as I wrote it... I think I am beginning to see the beauty in that work.

Can I take my opening line back?

OK, so let me rephrase it: "Michele Piccoli and Annie Girardot - the Escape from Hollywood in its purest form!"

OK, that's better.

Tonight - revisiting the Moon in the Gutter.