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Zemestan Ast (2006)
Bleak yet beautiful
A beautiful film that tells an emotionally complex story of alienation and longing with the minimum of dialogue.
That is all I wanted to say really, but it seems brevity is not a virtue sort by IMDb. I understand the ten line minimum; IMDb does not want to be overwhelmed by vacuous one line reviews. But surly my well chosen 18 words are a triumph of economy and concision, and through these excellent qualities are exempt to such a well meaning yet indiscriminate prohibition. Furthermore there can be little danger of "It's Winter" being overwhelmed by reviews of any sort... My vain blathering seem to have taken me over the quota...
9 Songs (2004)
Touching and believable.
A nice little film on the excitement, beauty and ultimately pointlessness of a love-affair. The sex is explicit yet I didn't find it pornographic (using the rule of thumb, 'Would one use this for masturbation?'). The sex scenes are intentionally relentless and eventually boring as indeed they were becoming for characters in the film. 9-songs seemed to be about searching and failing to find meaning in life, but still taking some solace in its beauty. In a flick with so little dialogue one might search to hard for profundity in the few words that are uttered, but in fact the script might have been improved by being even briefer.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Perhaps not the film it might of been.
The individual scenes of Perfume were often beautiful, well composed and painterly. The film however was hamstrung by an unnecessary and intrusive voice over. Every time I started to become absorbed in the story in chips John Hurt and theatrically runs over the action for the partially sighted. The characters' dialogue was both stilted and anachronistic; the editing static and uncinematic. A film with pretensions as large as Perfume's needs to charm and intrigue an audience to keep their goodwill, it had totally lost mine after the FIRST hour. By the end I was willing Jean-Baptiste to hurry-up and brain the last girl so we could all get off home.
This maybe a liitle harsh but I'm Irked by the feeling that with different editing this could of been a much better film.
(Also does anyone else think that Alan Rickman is looking increasingly like Keith Barron?)