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Avalon (2001)
Dreadful "music"
Although most of the sound effects in this film are spot-on (very effective buzzes, drones etc.) the music is absolutely and utterly dreadful. Anybody with musical taste should be warned beforehand, i suffered to make this warning widely available.
The Cell (2000)
Tarkovsky badly misinterpreted
Oh yes, it's all there: dog, horse, boy child (the son), the zone (the cell), all that water, weathered wall, battered machinery, miniature house (home), weightlessness/elevation, the tree (of life/hope, blossoming even if it was dead to begin with) and religious imagery galore.
After seeing Tarsem Singh's dreadful misunderstanding of Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Offret' in the musicvideo for REM's 'Losing my Religion' years ago, i just knew a full feature film would contain so much more utter nonsense. I was not mistaken ;-)
A lot of the imagery stems from Tarkovsky films directly; especially from 'Stalker', 'Nostalghia', 'The Mirror' and last but not least: 'The Sacrifice'('Offret')
So it's Tarkovsky badly misinterpreted with Singh delivering us such fine bonus, totally misplaced, christian moralities as 'salvation through cleansing of the soul' bla bla 'baptism', 'god-me-son triangularity', purgatory scenes, heaven and hell as ying and yang, 'Saint Catherine The Pure', bla bla, o lord.....
The Cell attempts to run deep, but it's just very very shallow.
Vision, dear Mr. Sing, not just images !
Traffic (2000)
Great great camerawork and visualisation
Great great camerawork and visualisation.
I'll keep it short: Watch this on a big screen, not on a tv set !
Others have mentioned this film's merits and shortcomings. But the lively scenes and beautiful colours, especially the shots in Mexico are a joy in itself.
07/10 for the movie 10/10 for the camerawork and developing and techniques used.
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (2000)
Do not watch
I'm so sorry. I love Tykwers 'Winterschlaefer [Winter Sleepers] and admire Lola Rennt [Run Lola Run], but this effort is so bad, so utterly hideous. Don't go watch it. Many technical and continuity failures too, didn't think that Tykwer (whose technical skills in the 2 mentioned films i admired) would make such a slow soap opera.
yuck !
Unbreakable (2000)
Brilliant pace
One element that struck me in The Sixth Sense was taken a step further in Unbreakable: the great feeling for pace; all scenes had time stretched, just enough to take it all in and i mean really in. Some may regard it as a "slow movie", but i just love it: together with it's immaculate production again the director found the brilliant, highly effective pace to tell such a tale.
Favourite scene: the breakfast table.