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Gets better with every viewing

posted 15 years ago by mark_wilks_x
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I didn't like this film at all the first time I saw it. I watched it a second time and I found a way of understanding the film which meant in my mind, it was no longer a meaningless, pretentious piece of nonsense like Last Year at Marienbad.

Instead it was a great film, I admire Antonioni for making such a stylistically uncompromising film for his English language debut. It would have been much easier to play safe but he didn't and the result... perhaps his best film.

[–] kenny-164 15 years ago

I love the feel of the film as much as anything else. It is very much of the sixties, but in a way it speaks to all times, what with the smug/interesting/busy/self involved protagonist finding out his assured understandings and ways do not serve him with such an outside the box experience as coming across a murder.

I enjoy it more and more every viewing.

[–] hemmo 15 years ago

I agree, it gets better on every viewing. First time I liked it, then I liked it a lot, and now it's my all time favorite movie.

What a masterpiece.

[–] deanowest 15 years ago

Yep, you got that right. I didn't really get much out of it the first go around, but the images stuck with me; The Yardbirds, the propellor, naked girls on the purple paper, the photos. For these reasons I went back to it. then I started reading a bit about it and, yes, it does get better with every viewing. All Antonioni films get better byt the way

Any one who says this film is fluff is not trying, looking or thinking.

Dictated, but not read.

[–] FrankBooth_DeLarge 15 years ago

I saw this about a year ago and wasn't too fond of it, mainly because I didn't understand the point very well. But after hearing from many people about how great it is if you understand it, and after seeing it in so many "best movie" lists, I'll give it another chance sometime.

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[–] FrankusBoothius 15 years ago

There is no need to go shooting your mouth off about Last Year at Marienbad.

[–] jimsin 15 years ago

I agree - Blowup is amazing - but I prefer Marienbad. Leave Marienbad alone! :D

[–] cantchangeit2 15 years ago

Way back when this movie was the one to see. Everyone was talking about it. The first time I saw it, I didn't quite get what was going on. It got better with subsequent watchings. Hemmings never did live up (or was allowed to live up) to his early potential, IMO.

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[–] PeterBlues 12 years ago

thanks, good to know, i think ill try that then, i've been picking up on some of the more negative review vibes on this board, so far i've come across this two times on a classic movie channel i get, both times i didn't have focus on the entire run time and then found the parts i saw quite uneventful and slow going, perhaps a movie that would be fun to watch with a friend who's used to full blast action packed not-a-slow-moment kind of modern movies, right, i think this flick would be fun to watch with audio commentary track.

down the pavement youre heading down,
the elevator before hardly hitting the balcony sight,
stay around like you used to doll,
don't leave me alone with the stars,
need it all to gather where you are,
stay a while closer here to the moon,
don't hit the pavement so soon.

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