kevin_51784
Highlights
2011 Oscars
Lifetime Total
1+
IMDb Member
6 years
Reviews
La caméra de Claire (2017)
I've changed...
Huh? was my initial thought.
Some scenes I felt made me mildly embarrassed but on reflection now realise it was a choice, by the director and myself.
So a few days on and, much like the films premise, I've changed (but not my rating), I now nod my head and think hmmm.
This film has made me want to find out more about its directors work.
This film has made me want to find out more about its directors work.
Onna ga nemurutoki (2016)
An incomprehensible mess or a misjudged masterpiece?
I think you can read this review and not have the movie spoiled too much, maybe even the opposite - but just in case I have marked it so. This review takes its cues from the short story the movie was adapted from.
Briefly, the short recalls a conversation between the writer and an older man who is in an intriguing relationship with a much younger woman. The older gent explains why he is constantly taking videos of her and his complete adoration for her. And how their relationship must end.
This movie takes that conversation and weaves between it a mystery of love, obsession and desires.
We very soon learn our writer is suffering from writer's block, but this will change soon enough. You should not believe everything you see and hear on screen - it does not play out as a conventional movie. Which scenes are real and which are imagined are not easily distinguishable - but some appear more obvious than others in hindsight.
And key scenes that don't deliver an answer - most likely they are in his new novel.
This review is kinder than my rating, which reflects my first impression and before I'd read the short story or any reviews here. The short is not essential reading - but it gave me time to gather my thoughts.
Also checkout the external critics review of South China Morning Post - links to Edmund Lees review and has links to an interview with the director and the short story.
So an incomprehensible mess or a misjudged masterpiece? If you take the film too literally you will be left disappointed and as confused as I was. It's not a complete mess, but maybe it was too difficult a project to execute satisfactorily and therefore, it is what it is. If you haven't seen the movie, and for whatever the reason is that brought you here - I would say seek this movie out
Briefly, the short recalls a conversation between the writer and an older man who is in an intriguing relationship with a much younger woman. The older gent explains why he is constantly taking videos of her and his complete adoration for her. And how their relationship must end.
This movie takes that conversation and weaves between it a mystery of love, obsession and desires.
We very soon learn our writer is suffering from writer's block, but this will change soon enough. You should not believe everything you see and hear on screen - it does not play out as a conventional movie. Which scenes are real and which are imagined are not easily distinguishable - but some appear more obvious than others in hindsight.
And key scenes that don't deliver an answer - most likely they are in his new novel.
This review is kinder than my rating, which reflects my first impression and before I'd read the short story or any reviews here. The short is not essential reading - but it gave me time to gather my thoughts.
Also checkout the external critics review of South China Morning Post - links to Edmund Lees review and has links to an interview with the director and the short story.
So an incomprehensible mess or a misjudged masterpiece? If you take the film too literally you will be left disappointed and as confused as I was. It's not a complete mess, but maybe it was too difficult a project to execute satisfactorily and therefore, it is what it is. If you haven't seen the movie, and for whatever the reason is that brought you here - I would say seek this movie out