Watched it at the gorgeous Cinema Rif of Tangiers, which added to the experience. I’ve seen Coppola’s version so I was hoping for a new, subjective adaptation. It never happened narratively, there was not much suspense as the story was straightforwardly the same as Draculas. That is, until I was pleasantly surprised by the very end of the story, when it is the girl who is faced with the dilemma between duty and love and gets to make her own…
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Uranus 1990
This film’s greatness resides in its unique ability to capture some of the most essential socio-political issues that structured the French collective imaginary in the last 80 years. It depicts the fear, guilt, resentment and hypocrisy of my people in the most acute and relevant way possible. Depardieu does maybe the greatest performance I’ve ever seen from an actor in terms of physicality and eating the space around him. Philippe Noiret was also incredible, he oozes emotional intelligence like very few…
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Cesar and Rosalie 1972
Being obsessed with your girlfriend shouldn’t stop you from finding your boyfriend
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La Belle Noiseuse 1991
Rarely have I started a film with so much excitement only to end up unsatisfied. The premise had everything for me to love it, but I could never fall in love with the execution. The dialogues are a cliché of French auteurism, with inscrutable characters talking in the least naturalistic way possible. The subject of the film has infinite subtlety and depth, for which I waited and waited but never found. Yes it describes very well, but where is the…
