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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 2:33:06 GMT
A dark, poignantly beautiful look at life in the devastating wake of war. Haunting performances all around, but the standout is the bravura turn from the young German actress Paula Beer. Very shades of Adjani and Romy Schneider.  It's firmly in my top 5 of this year. What did you think?  |
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Post by thomasjerome on Feb 10, 2018 11:04:38 GMT
Old-fashioned and at the same time, very modern film. Very beautiful to look at, elegantly shot, compelling, and well-acted. It's also very different than Ozon's other films. If I remember correctly one reporter jokingly said to him "Finally you made a film that I can watch with my parents". I like his stuff in general but it's great to see him challenging himself with different kind of films.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Feb 10, 2018 23:49:31 GMT
It's great with a very critic and poignant description of what it was the bourgeois society in that moment in time, but also can translate to the comtemporary.
It's beautifully structured, every piece is carefully palced, it's very much about half-said things, truths, lies, hidden pasts, even moments where we can detect lies that are actually truths in Frantz's story and his character is wrapped in a halo of mystery, and all the characters have a specific way of hypocresy and lies in their personalities about things untold and not entiry lying and all that generates a sensation of not knowing what to do, not saying the truth for fear of what someone else is going to think, it feels like everyone is obliged to not speak in that bourgeois society, and the film does a great job becasue is not even about the cheap talk and "what will they say" is more about the veils everyone's wearing and they can hide in to not reveal themselves and through all that we discover who was Frantz, is a very distinctive way to construct a character and those moments where the screen goes to color are even more hopeless and sad because WWII was coming and only makes the look more melancholic.
And yes, Paula Beer is quite the discovery.
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Post by ibbi on Feb 12, 2018 10:56:00 GMT
It's one of those movies (as basically all his movies are) that are visually, stylistically sumptuous, faultless even, beautifully realized, but the writing is not on the level of his finest efforts. Still, his leads (Beer in particular) are so good they pretty much paper over all the cracks.
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