Youth--Aging And Loss Cannot Be Saved

Bethany 2022-07-22 11:57:35

old!

What the movie is about: Even if you live in a luxury hotel in the Alps and watch beautiful women get spa treatments, it won't fix your aging or your loss. All of your most precious things are lost, and perhaps because you have gained so much, the loss becomes unbearable. The problem is that we don't have the fucking money to live in a luxury hotel in the Alps and have to deal with aging and loss. So I don't actually love this movie in particular, but I have to admit that it is still pleasing to the eye to watch. It has a very grand and extravagant feeling.

This review is well written! Also, the Naples-born director is a fan of Maradona, and he thanked Maradona in particular when he won the Oscar for best foreign-language film last year. A character in the movie is modeled after Maradona, and many in the media think that Maradona played the role himself, but he is actually just an Argentine actor who looks quite similar to Maradona.

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Extended Reading
  • Josephine 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    Everything in the movie is simple and beautiful, so we can only reminisce about the rough life from the sporadic dialogue. The dialogue is indeed subtle, but it cannot hide the emptiness of the story. Perhaps the reason why we are indifferent to the aria-like way of discussing life is that we are not yet able to live in our old age in a luxury hotel at the foot of the Alps.

  • Jamey 2022-03-30 09:01:05

    How I wish this film won the award, this is the best of the few #CannesFilmcompetition films I've seen. There's an absurd narrative, there's a philosophy of life and death, there's dark humor, and there's a great line, Jane Fonda's acting skills for a few minutes, and the rest of the time I love Harvey Keitel more than Mike Cain, and Paul Dano's character is just too cheesy, someone I really love when all the characters stand in a row on the grass before jumping off the building.

Youth quotes

  • Mick Boyle: Do you see that mountain over there?

    Girl Screenwriter: Yes. It looks very close.

    Mick Boyle: Exactly. This is what you see when you're young. Everything seems really close. And that's the future. And now. And that's what you see when you're old. Everything seems really far away. That's the past.

  • Lena Ballinger: Bathtubs are more dangerous than Everest.

    Luca Moroder: How true.