I just came back from the cinema after having seen the film. And all that comes to mind is -and forgive me for the level of my English- a simple ahhh! This was one of the best performances I have seen in terms of couple chemistry and the protagonist Eleonora Rossi Drago was just splendid! Pure unspoiled femininity coming out of every little move, gesture, look! The b/w photography, the directing and most of all Trintignan and Rossi Drago transform this erotic drama into a symphony of desire! And I can ask,rather bitterly, after all: where are women protagonists nowadays? And what has been done to the pure magic they radiated?
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(I) (2005)
Unequal
28 March 2006
Not too many things to write on this movie. It surely is clever and meant to make us come in contact with relatively unexplored artistically parts of our psyche but 1. It is, I think, badly directed. Like the "Constant Gardener", it takes a clever and interesting scenario and expands it to a 1 hour and a half video clip. The rhythm of the movie (awful editing) is ridiculous and subtracts from the dramatic density. A comparison with the rhythm of a film like the Machinist helps to make this point come out better. 2. The visual style is generally OK and at times superb but again does not seem to be an organic part of the narrative of the film: it seems just "forced" on it at certain moments. 3. As for the acting I believe protagonists do relatively well, but cannot say the same thing for McGregor (but maybe I am wrong about this, have to see the film once more). All in all an interesting film but very unequal and arguably destroyed by the video clip-type editing which gives entirely the wrong rhythm.
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