tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post2800832058766922317..comments2024-03-15T04:08:16.172-04:00Comments on Only the Cinema: DiabelEd Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-53353144107267199652013-06-27T08:21:02.681-04:002013-06-27T08:21:02.681-04:00This film is going to be shown in London soon so I...This film is going to be shown in London soon so I was looking it up to see if it worth seeing. Doesn't sound like my "cup of tea" - I can only take so much wallowing and women as traitors or whores, but some great reviews/debates - cheers...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-54828047018215064772012-04-09T23:12:57.803-04:002012-04-09T23:12:57.803-04:00Yeah, it's definitely too much, Mark. I didn&#...Yeah, it's definitely too much, Mark. I didn't get much out of it all beyond wallowing in all the ugliness.<br /><br />Glad you like <i>Petit soldat</i> so much, it's an interesting movie - and especially fascinating to me for its intertextual connections to Claire Denis' great <i>Beau travail</i>, which picks up Bruno's story many years later.Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-60738473383008543162012-04-09T14:51:15.135-04:002012-04-09T14:51:15.135-04:00Ed-
I watched this emetic atrocity over the weeken...Ed-<br />I watched this emetic atrocity over the weekend (minus subtitles, so the film made no sense) and very nearly vomited. I totally concur with you here; 'Diabel' is the movie equivalent of a 'swirly' in a toiletful of shit and puke (also, though I know the killing is fictional, did the horse need to have its throat slit, too?). Way over the top.<br /><br />I think the guys mark s.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-5614390494597656262011-01-20T14:51:49.462-05:002011-01-20T14:51:49.462-05:00That wasn't even a defense! That was like me s...That wasn't even a defense! That was like me singing Bowie in Portuguese...<br /><br />You say the film isn't substantial - I wouldn't be surprised if your distaste simply made you disinterested in finding that substance. I know that happens to me. Even as one of my favorite films I still find it esoteric, beguiling, and incredibly complex, and I think you could find it if you were Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-40206701454111492612011-01-20T08:50:03.249-05:002011-01-20T08:50:03.249-05:00Those are some interesting thoughts, LEAVES, and a...Those are some interesting thoughts, LEAVES, and a very cogent defense of this film. I guess my main problem with the film was that I just didn't find enough depth or substance in it to be able to tolerate or even appreciate its consistent aesthetic. Had I thought the film really had something substantial to it, I probably would've enjoyed that bleak aesthetic much more. As it is, I foundEd Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-39615746976880523562011-01-19T20:14:45.318-05:002011-01-19T20:14:45.318-05:00I wonder if you had found the film's consisten...I wonder if you had found the film's consistently nightmarish aesthetic enthralling rather than tiresome whether you would have been more or less willing to dismiss it. I found the excessively stilted characters of Uncle Boonmee to be tiresome, myself, but I guess that's just difference tolerance levels for different styles. Where I found that film to be portrayed all in one key and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com