MohamedFawzy
Joined Jun 2002
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A movie that started highly interesting then started slowly, but steadily going south.
A unique movie starts with an 11 year old introducing herself in front if her Super8 camera and confesses that she's going to commit suicide on her 12th birthday which will take place in 169 days, and decides that her swan song be a movie she makes with that camera about life around her to show how absurd life really is that it's not really worth living, and thus goes on filming everyone around her.
What's really wrong with this movie IMO, is that at some point around the middle, it shifted the focus of the story from the little girl to the relation between the Japanese man and the Concierge Renee, and suddenly the young girl repressed to the background of the movie that we practically forget about her existence and her little secret plan.
The movie had lots of potential but the writer/director Mona Achache chose to take an adaptation that was a little bit off, with a non- uniform pacing and somewhat slow, yet sometimes very vibrant, character development, or rather the lack of in the case of the Japanese gentleman.
A unique movie starts with an 11 year old introducing herself in front if her Super8 camera and confesses that she's going to commit suicide on her 12th birthday which will take place in 169 days, and decides that her swan song be a movie she makes with that camera about life around her to show how absurd life really is that it's not really worth living, and thus goes on filming everyone around her.
What's really wrong with this movie IMO, is that at some point around the middle, it shifted the focus of the story from the little girl to the relation between the Japanese man and the Concierge Renee, and suddenly the young girl repressed to the background of the movie that we practically forget about her existence and her little secret plan.
The movie had lots of potential but the writer/director Mona Achache chose to take an adaptation that was a little bit off, with a non- uniform pacing and somewhat slow, yet sometimes very vibrant, character development, or rather the lack of in the case of the Japanese gentleman.
This is probably the saddest thing I've ever seen, I'm heartbroken and I can hardly type those words.
Lars von Trier's extremely powerful, emotionally charged "musical" about a girl from Czech whose extremely fond of American musicals, moves to the US with her son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film, but things turn ugly, and she faces it by daydreaming about her life being a musical.
This movie survives solely on the story, the script and the acting, I couldn't believe that Bjork could deliver such an amazing performance, but there were still 2 main negative aspects about the film for me..
The badly directed musical sequences, they should have been the highlight of the movie, but they were just terribly executed with very awkward framing of shots, it was like editing together the footage from various surveillance cameras.
The other being that the movie was shot on generic video cameras of the time on a DVCAM format, which means that the footage is video, I have no idea how that looked on the big screen, especially the one at the Palais des Festivals at Cannes, that combined with a sickening shaky camera-work.
Even though the movie had no visual beauty whatsoever, the story and the acting make it worthwhile.
Lars von Trier's extremely powerful, emotionally charged "musical" about a girl from Czech whose extremely fond of American musicals, moves to the US with her son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film, but things turn ugly, and she faces it by daydreaming about her life being a musical.
This movie survives solely on the story, the script and the acting, I couldn't believe that Bjork could deliver such an amazing performance, but there were still 2 main negative aspects about the film for me..
The badly directed musical sequences, they should have been the highlight of the movie, but they were just terribly executed with very awkward framing of shots, it was like editing together the footage from various surveillance cameras.
The other being that the movie was shot on generic video cameras of the time on a DVCAM format, which means that the footage is video, I have no idea how that looked on the big screen, especially the one at the Palais des Festivals at Cannes, that combined with a sickening shaky camera-work.
Even though the movie had no visual beauty whatsoever, the story and the acting make it worthwhile.