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It is so refreshing to watch a movie like this one. Those comparing it with Hollywood standards such as the density of the plot, the stunts or 'the sex scene' would be wise to take another look. Such standards cannot be applied here. Lelouch plays with colors, objects, and our natural capacity for associative memory to tell us what is neither written nor spoken. The main actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée master the art of expressing the message. Dialogs are far from poor, but the meaning sometimes has to be found in their tone, their breaks, their pace or, again, the characters' play. What would be cinema for if these were useless ?

Kill Bill is not just about samurais. We have seen them in many movies before, and if it were just about that the experience would be rather dull. Kill Bill is the world of Quentin Tarantino. There, comic-strip heroes move around in a psychedelic music from Latin America/Japan/Mexico/Europe/US. The atmosphere is surreal.

But above all, the striking point of this movie is that every scene is perfectly shot. Tarantino is savvy with the camera, angles, close-ups, colors and backgrounds are all in place.Minute after minute, he sculpts before us this 21st century poem.