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The last few frames of Talk To Her are heart-stoppingly beautiful.
― N. (nickdastoor)
I'm now in a huge argument with a friend about this film (saw last night). I'm frankly appalled by the rape and the way the film sets up the rapist as a person to sympathize with. Despite the otherwise stunning quality of the film and performances, I had a hard time dealing with the horror of the act in question (and I'm usually pretty relative about morality).
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi)
A. is an amazing filmmaker, but one item on his agenda--always--(like John Waters) is gratuitous shock. Intentional bad taste of the sort that isn't really bad taste at all but is, or would be, clearly destructive to society, if it weren't just a movie. The other aspects of his films, lately, have been so lyrical, and successful on an artistic level, that the films trick people into elevating the shock features to the same level as his more "serious" musings. It's very manipulative. But that's okay for an artist, I think.
― Skottie
Talk To HerPedro Almodóvar2002Spain(220 points, 10 votes)
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf does aggressively OK even mean
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, Talk to Her is surprisingly low.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh
― jed_, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Weerasthakul fine, but couldn't honestly feel higher than 60th-80th for TM. He entrances but I'm still not always sure (or even able to guess) in the service of what.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
its weird obama is a matador
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
sideways/napoleon dynamite showing up is making me worried that u bastards are going to vote little miss sunshine into the top 20 and im going to have a seizure
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's 'talk to her' where a hot secretary sez something like i just took a huge dump ~
didnt vote for it, but it's a good movie
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i just dislike sideways tho, i fucking hate ND
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Spencer Chow otm
― Cosmo Vitelli, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Am I gonna regret bookmarking this thread?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Thought silent film sequence was by far best thing in Talk to Her, don't honestly remember much else.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the main reason I can't really deal with Talk to Her, even though most of it is quite good.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
This was the comatose-chick one, right?
I thought Talk to Her was good, though I liked Volver more - I also remember very little about Talk to Her. I also thought Manderlay was better than Dogville.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - comatose chick one, yes.
lol this was the line i was thinking of - that its just so throw-off makes me <3 it
(Lest we dwell too long, for instance, on Alicia's shock at finding Benigno in her house, her father's receptionist answers the phone and offers this gem: "Oh, hello, Lola. I've just taken an elephant-sized dump." Cut to the next scene.)
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Tropical Malady is new to me, looks interesting
― ogmor, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
He entrances but I'm still not always sure (or even able to guess) in the service of what.
agree but think that's the strength of it. it's refreshing.
― jed_, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't remember anything about Talk to Me either.
― Darin, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i remember it being super overrated at the time, i thought it was so-so
― velko, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm now in a huge argument with a friend about this film (saw last night). I'm frankly appalled by the rape and the way the film sets up the rapist as a person to sympathize with.
See, I disagree. We often confuse "sympathize" with "interested in."
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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"Together" was so goddamned charming!
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic)
TogetherLukas Moodysson2000Sweden(220.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place)
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
taking a break for now...
^great screengrab, great movie
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Funny -- kid named Tet -- need to see again.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Together is great, yeah! Too bad Moodysson decided he didn't want to do that sort of movies again. Despite the good intentions, Lilya-4-Ever was pretty awful, and from what I've heard his next movie was even worse.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember this was really hyped when it came out, but I never got to see it. Anything other than 'charming' or 'great'?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"Together" is on Watch Instantly for Netflix folks who haven't seen it, btw.
― Darin, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
^yes, on my list
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad to see Capturing the Friedmans placed as it was my #1. IMO the DVD of this one is essential, as all the many, many extras just escalate the bafflement. Of course it bears noting that I am obsessed w/the kind of stuff in the extras, such as transcripts of really poorly done, exploitative police interviews w/kids that go on for hours. I mean if they ever made a docu abt the McMartin preschool trial, my head would probably explode.
Everyone I've ever tried to play this for has fallen asleep tho.
― vacation to outer darkness (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Lilya 4-Ever wasn't too bad aside from the ending, but as soon as I sent my ballot I really regretted giving it the two points that I did. That ending killed the movie for me.
xxxpost
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Together is ranked exactly right. I liked it a lot but always forget I saw it.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm let's see. of the ones so far i think dogville is the only one i voted for. (and it's great, u r all crazy.) i like tropical malady but it's my 3rd-favorite joe film so didn't make the cut. i think together was on my extended shortlist. the piano teacher made me want to punch michael haneke, even though isabelle huppert really is great in it.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
It's about a 70s Swedish housewife getting fed up with his husband and moving to a leftist/hippie commune with his kids. It gives a somewhat bemused but alway sympathetic portrait of the sort of people who lived in communes during the 70s.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
(x-post to Emily)
i thought 'together' was brilliant how dense it was in depth and # of characters for a 90 min film
also, you know, it may just be the little dutch kids aspect of it, but it reminded me a lot of the first half of 'fanny & alexander'
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
ah i guess i should say scandanavian look then
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Moodysson is one of only three filmmakers who appeared on my ballot more than once.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
the problem for me with Dogville was that it was so theoretical, it hardly seemed to be there at all as an experience
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I like how it's never "LOL hippies", but it doesn't present the commune as a hippie utopia either. Having hung out with 90s/00s versions of these sort of people, the way Together presented them seemed pretty spot-on. And the overall positive message of communality is certainly very nice.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
(xxx-post)
it was there, like a teeth-cleaning. xxp
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't vote for together (only voted for 28 films) but i probably should have, it's great.
― jed_, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
And the overall positive message of communality is certainly very nice.
Really? this wasn't my take. Part of the film's slyness is the implication that this community was a collection of atomized humans who only made sense to each other when they were fucking or in conflict with someone else.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree with everything Abbott said about CTF. I was just spellbound for the whole movie.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's both.
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― jed_, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I think the communality isn't objectively judged except it's sort of good that these folks aren't bothering everybody else (kinda like the record store in High Fidelity).
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
don't agree w/ that
― jed_, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link