Today I watched "Atlantique" (Diop, 2019). There are resources on Netflix.
I write a short review purely on the visual aspect of the movie, so that I won't spoil everyone.
This movie also takes place at the seaside, and the scene has the texture of "Portrait of a Burning Woman". What impressed me most about this movie is the blue, blue sea, blue light and blue waves. The sea in the night is rarely seen in movies (the last time I saw it seemed to be in "Jaws"?), when I saw the mysterious, deep, and even scary sea under the moon, I thought of watching it as a child In "Adventure Little Tigers", a story about deep-sea prisons. It also thinks of wolves and vampires, Greek and ancient Roman mythology, and the disappearing Atlantis.
The mystery of the night does not appear out of thin air, and is closely related to the spiritual core of the movie-at night, there will be dead souls possessing people, recovering the debts that were not obtained during the lifetime, and fulfilling the long-cherished wishes that were not fulfilled during the lifetime. The sea carries many symbolic meanings. The bright moon and the sea in the deep night have a sense of mystery because they can't see its outline. The turbulent waves and the night are integrated, making people confused for a moment where the sea is and where is the sky;
During the day, the sea is calm and serene. When the heroine and the sea appear together, it will give people a feeling of loneliness, accompanied by misty music; the sea in the sunset looks like Monet's impressionist oil painting, but when it resembles "Muholland Road" ( Lynch, 2001) when the dreamlike ethereal music is played, the warm and round sunset seems to be able to call the souls of the dead to return...
And full of hope.
At the end, the sea under the setting sun is like a painting made by a child mixing orange, yellow, blue and white paint. And when the voice-over of the heroine and the heroine sounded like a poem, I thought that was the end of the movie-no, but it was actually quite good to end at this moment.
Btw The photographer of this movie is the photographer of "Portrait of a Burning Woman"-Claire Mathon [Wow] [Wow] [Wow] Worship!
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