I just finished watching Annette on Prime. Adam Driver is fantastic and I really liked the songs. The direction is really interesting and distinctive. For me, this is the 4th best film of the year. I rate it a 9/10. Anyone else seen it yet?
shareAbysmal. There's a point where a work gets so wrapped up in its manner of presentation that it moves beyond self-expression and careens into self-validation. This is one of those cases - a movie that no one asked for delivered in such a mannered and condescending way that it eliminated any and all enjoyment overall.
Then there's the combination of Adam Driver as a comedian and Marion Cotillard as an opera singer. Gag me with a spoon. They play a couple who (respectively) isn't funny or particularly talented, and they both sing soliloquies with bizarrely banal lyrics. Over and over again. The same things said over and over again. "We love each other, we love each other" and so on...
Overall I wonder: what is the point of all this, and why is this movie not inherently entertaining in the meantime?
Overall, it was a true work of art. Solid effort. What's next?
FredB, your review is confusing. At first, I came away with the conclusion that you did not like the film. Which I still believe to be true. But you ended your review with the sentence,
"Overall, it was a true work of art. Solid effort. What's next?"
So, which is it? Earlier in your review you state."A movie that no one asked for delivered in such a mannered and condescending way that it eliminated any and all enjoyment overall.
Just wondering.
“Art is anything you can get away with.”
(Andy Warhol, 1928-1987)
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Indeed I didn't enjoy the movie, but that doesn't take away that it's still art. Garbage art, but still art. Who cares? See it if you think it might appeal to you and form your own opinion.
Hope that clears things up. Art is indeed anything you can get away with, and Annette definitely did an art.
Thank you for the reply. It did clear things up. And you are correct. I am thinking Campbell's Soup cans. It is art. Art is in the eyes of the beholder. I started the film. But, then I quit on it. And, I enjoy many avant garde films, as well as Hollywood big budget films.
So, I am going to try again. Many think it is great. I notice the post from TheArgentinnian (2613) here. The reviews have been diverse.
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
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I loved it too. But the reception is so divisive. People were expecting a new La La Land and is more weirder than that.
shareI liked it. I had no idea what I went to watch and was a bit surprised at the start when Sparks appeared - wondered if I'd wandered in to the wrong cinema. But I thought it was interesting and brave and I enjoyed it nearly all the time. I suspect I'll enjoy it more with repeat viewing.
sharei did not love it,, unfortunately.
but i appreciated it. it's a wild swing for the fences, and while i think it whiffed slightly, i applaud the ambition and the audacity and all that stuff.
perhaps my experience would have been different if i'd dragged myself out to the theatre, but i watched it at home, and at home i definitely felt massive diminishing returns as this moved through it's very, very long running time. at first, i felt dazzled by it. by the end, i was pining for it to end and release me from the burden of having to sit through 140m of this.
i love excess, but it's gotta come in manageable doses.
3.5/5
Fair enough. Did you see anything in theaters this weekend?
sharenot so far. this is the first time in a few weeks that i didn't make it out. they're doing a wong kar wai retrospective at our art theatre, and i miiight catch faa yeung nin wa tonight, which i've never seen and know nothing about. do you know that film?
i know you went to see the new eastwood film, cuz i cyberstalk you...seen anything else?
I'm not familiar with faa yeung nin wa. I saw Malignant on Thursday and enjoyed it, rating it an 8/10. I'm on vacation this week so I plan to watch a lot of movies.
shareoof...how embarrassing.
i just realized faa yeung nin wa is 'in the mood for love,' lol. which i've seen before. for some reason, our theatre is printing the title in chinese (is that mandarin? i dunno), even though they've given the english titles of all the other kar wai films they're showing. weirdness.
I was wondering why I couldn't find that title on imdb. I have seen In The Mood For Love and have the Criterion blu ray. It's been a while since I watched it, but I remember liking it and rating it an 8/10.
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