Everybody is fairly well used to phantasy plots, mistery situations, fairy-tales, avant-garde films, impressionism and expressionism, phantoms suddenly tramplin on the ceiling, zombies and similar...
Any movie whatsoever, whatever genre it belongs to, can be likeable, and sometime a masterpiece. Excluded from these are films with errors, I mean important mistakes in the main plot, contradictions in it: of course, those movies cannot be held as even standard works of art.
"Ménilmontant" is indeed a fascinating movie, with great photography and great turns.
Yet, something leaves me uncomfortable.
Why is the younger sister roaming the streets of the city as if she had no place to go, no house, no shelter? She was living with her sister, a few minutes before (in the film). Why the director hasn't told us anything about her leaving (or not leaving) her sister? This omission doesn't add anything to the film, it rather subtracts something from it. It is just a plain mistake, an error, a contradiction.
What a pity.
Any one that didn't watch the movie should not be retained from watching it, because - in some ways - it is very interesting and good. But if any one has watched it, I think it might happen that she/he could share my opinion.
Any movie whatsoever, whatever genre it belongs to, can be likeable, and sometime a masterpiece. Excluded from these are films with errors, I mean important mistakes in the main plot, contradictions in it: of course, those movies cannot be held as even standard works of art.
"Ménilmontant" is indeed a fascinating movie, with great photography and great turns.
Yet, something leaves me uncomfortable.
Why is the younger sister roaming the streets of the city as if she had no place to go, no house, no shelter? She was living with her sister, a few minutes before (in the film). Why the director hasn't told us anything about her leaving (or not leaving) her sister? This omission doesn't add anything to the film, it rather subtracts something from it. It is just a plain mistake, an error, a contradiction.
What a pity.
Any one that didn't watch the movie should not be retained from watching it, because - in some ways - it is very interesting and good. But if any one has watched it, I think it might happen that she/he could share my opinion.