Saturday 14 December 2024
(watched, at the theater 📽️)
A very rich movie, with some acceptable weaknesses.
Richness:
The directing is full of wonderful ideas and interesting camera-work.
A nice zest of fantasy such as the Cure clip or the beating chewing-gum
Cinematography, music, sets, which are all excellent craft.
The story which actually got me hooked.
Weakness:
Exarchopoulos does not resemble her younger counterpart.
Concerting the crime plot, the asymmetry between the very detailed first part, and the rushed (basically 1 montage) second part.
The ending: the overruled foreshadowing of the opening scene would surely have been a superior ending than the actual wishy-washy ending. Him not using violence because he promised to her means he doesn't deeply understand the reasons for non-violence; her not doing anything with her life means she never actually recovered from her teenage trauma (which took off her the desire to have a project). It's a pretty sad ending, which is pretty unacknowledged by the movie.
A very rich movie, with some acceptable weaknesses.
Richness:
Weakness:
I still think it's a pretty remarkable movie.