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Wrote this when I saw it back in april. Rereading, it's really not very good, but oh well. Was a good day, that one.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 January 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
While I liked the two previous features and this well enough, AG has never been quite my cup of tea. Having a cold and fighting off sleep during a Sat night screening, again not ideal (and so depressing to be sick and old). Anyway...
I guess the narrow range of incident in this film (eggs smashed, noses smashed, claustrophobic handheld, revolting Breughelian faces, mud, milk pouring, interrupted by a singular horse dick) just made everything feel cumulative, and steeped in stasis beyond the stony "non"-narrative feel? (Because there is a plot, and it does advance, it just isn't foregrounded in any usual way.) I thought the salient takeaway was posted by P Labuza on L'boxed:
Anyways, if you tell me where any of the crew of this movie was possibly standing at any moment, please do, because the effect of a 360 degree reality here is astonishing.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 February 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
two months pass...