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Exquisite and luxurious heart memory
Alisa 2022-04-22 07:01:45
The quiet and luxurious hall, in which the camera moves slowly, and the baroque-like complex and exquisite architectural decoration is a visual feast. The atmosphere is excellent, and the music is in place. In the actor's quiet, sleepy expression, the camera returns to Marion Bader a year ago, which may be true, or it may be that the deviation of memory does not exist at all. The transformation of countless scenes is so natural, so dreamy, that at times the characters are left still or less conspicuous, while the poetic repetition of language that flows through the camera sounds like a voice-over narration. I admit that I didn’t understand it very well. Even so, when I look back on the film, I still feel that it was a very beautiful experience. It is exquisite, delicate, and ingenious. The idea of romanticism makes people dream and nostalgic.
Extended Reading
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Rigoberto 2022-03-22 09:02:28
It also belongs to the most pioneering echelon in the group portrait of the new wave works. After reading it, I feel that "Hiroshima Love" is really easy to understand by comparison. Stream-of-consciousness movies, with non-stop narration, cut space and time in an absolutely unconventional way, expressing the alienation of modern people's minds. Whether it is the solidification of the performance, or the extremely fast flashback or repetition of the camera lens, the lingering entanglement of that affection is vividly expressed. In the world of ideas, time is not only non-linear, but also viscous and broken, compressible and stretchable. What impressed me the most was the game theory game in the film, and I will play it with my friends at the next party. #BJIFF9#
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Martine 2022-03-20 09:02:23
The characters are stiff like statues, and the dramatic walking positions are reminiscent of Dreyer's "Ge Chu". Godard's "Contempt" borrowed a lot from the multi-angle moving camera shooting around the statue. Between the lens and the lens, time and space are misaligned, and this misalignment is also intensively expressed in a long lens. Repeated monologues or the same actions become the only way to connect.
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X: I must have you alive. Alive, as you have already been every evening, for weeks, for months.
A: I have never stayed so long anywhere.
X: Yes, I know. I don't care. For days and days. Why don't you still want to remember anything?
A: You're raving! I'm tired, leave me alone!
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X: [Last Lines] The grounds of the hotel were symmetrically arranged, without trees or flowers, or plants of any kind. The gravel, the stone, and the marble were spread in strict array in unmysterious shapes. At first sight, it seemed impossible to lose your way. At first sight... Along these stone paths and amidst these statues, where you were already losing your way forever in the still night, alone with me.