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norman-42-843758's rating
Partition inachevée pour piano mécanique
7.710
Partition inachevée pour piano mécanique
Perception
7.53
Perception
Knock Knock
4.93
Knock Knock
L'apiculteur
7.22
L'apiculteur
Les Petites Marguerites
7.21
Les Petites Marguerites
L'interrogatoire
7.910
L'interrogatoire
Possession
7.34
Possession
Chocolat
7.38
Chocolat
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
7.18
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Drancy Avenir
7.05
Drancy Avenir
Zemestan Ast
6.76
Zemestan Ast
Vingt-quatre prunelles
8.07
Vingt-quatre prunelles
Funny Games
7.58
Funny Games
Les Harmonies Werckmeister
7.910
Les Harmonies Werckmeister
Sátántangó - Le Tango de Satan
8.29
Sátántangó - Le Tango de Satan

Reviews14

norman-42-843758's rating
Knock Knock

Knock Knock

4.9
3
  • May 7, 2017
  • Who's there - Rip; Rip Torn - No Rip Off

    You kind of know what to expect when one of this years DVD releases is on the three for €10 shelf. After reading the back cover, I said to myself "This is Funny Games, I wonder how similar it is". It is the same story but so far as the film goes the answer to my own question is "Not even close". Out of all the reviews so far, only three or four have mentioned Funny Games. I have just given a nod to Submik for his comment about Michael Haneke. Haneke makes thoughtful films designed to make you consider people that exist on the fringes of society. In Funny Games two young men doorstep a family that has just arrived at their holiday home and charm their way into the house, then, little by little events turn nasty. The build up is slow and the atmosphere is taught.

    There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the same story being reworked but you do expect some new dimension to be added in the intervening period. I should expect Michael Haneke to be extremely disappointed to have his film mentioned together with this substandard effort.

    To give one example, many reviewers have mentioned the fork scene. John Wayne would have said "It is just a flesh wound", Robert de Nero would have said "Just get it out, there are no vital organs down there" but just when you are expecting Keanu Reaves to man up we find out that he gets tied up instead. Oh dear.

    How near could such a story line be to actual events, is it all cheap thrill fantasy? In 1973 two psychotic prisoners (think of the red necks from Deliverance) escaped from a maximum security unit in Maryland, USA. picked up the teenage brother of the gang leader and then went on a killing spree. They killed six members of one family including a pregnant woman who was forced to watch her family being methodically exterminated in front of her, before being gang raped and finally shot in the back. A retelling of these events appeared in the 1997 Graeme Campbell film Murder One. This is the only time I have seen reviews on IMDb from people who have never seen the film. They say they were close enough to the real events for it to leave them mentally scarred and they have no desire to see the retelling on film. So yes, these sort of events actually happen and are a legitimate scenario for a "Based on real events" film. What we don't expect is for the story line to deteriorate along the way.

    For all those reviewers who gave as their title "The worst film ever" or something similar, believe me it is not. If you want to see what 'worse' is involving two girls and a series of men check out Vera Chytilova's film Daisies you will not be disappointed.
    Partition inachevée pour piano mécanique

    Partition inachevée pour piano mécanique

    7.7
    10
  • Dec 14, 2013
  • A Social Class that Shot Itself in the Foot

    L'apiculteur

    L'apiculteur

    7.2
    2
  • Feb 24, 2013
  • Empathy is a Two Way Street

    This film didn't really work for me. After reading the, mostly, wonderful accolades above I was expecting better things from this movie but finished up being disappointed. It wasn't the inactivity either. I like Bella Tarr films so I am used to long takes with not very much happening. Another reviewer of a Tarr film recently noted that you could write a masters thesis on what is not going on, in between the bits of dialog. Okay, this is kind of cutesy but I know what he meant. There is a tension or at least a relationship between the characters and sometimes a "drama of the moment" in the "what will happen next", sense. With the Spyros character there was the feeling that during his moments of stoic inactivity (of which there was a lot), there was nothing going on inside. It was just a complete blank-out, no drama; no tension from silent inner feelings directed towards another, just nothing. The same scene could have been shot to equal effect without him being there. I was waiting for someone to come up to him and shout "Hello in there", in Greek of course or to give him a much needed kick in the seat of his pants. Whilst I am on the subject of pants, I would have reckoned that someone with a grown up son and two grown up daughters would have at least known that you have to open them in order to have sex. Any spotty teenager on his maiden voyage would not have acted in such an inept way. All the incidents except one in this film happened to Spyro not because of him. That one was when he drove his wagon through the front of a restaurant in order to get the girl and that came over as more of a student prank than an act of desperation.

    But, hey, I hear you say, this is a film that deals with the problems of loneliness and isolation and I should be more sympathetic to his situation. I understand this point of view however it is difficult to empathize with someone who has turned his back on a wife that obviously still had feelings for him; a family he could draw round him but who are now indifferent to him and friends throughout the country who he leaves at the first opportunity. Even the girl, who was selfish, never really did anything bad towards him. Spyro had no warmth within him and never did anything to gain respect. In the end even his beloved bees turned against him.

    In my opinion the high ranking Artificial Eye distributor has scored an own goal with this one but the enthusiasm of others will probably vindicate them.
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