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Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais) 1961, 9/10

You were expecting I would hate this movie? Who do you think I am, Pauline Kael or one the Medved Brothers? Nah, I loved this movie I've heard so many bad things about I've been dreading watching it for decades.

For starters, the art direction and cinematography are intoxicating. It's like taking repeated leisurely strolls through an elegantly appointed museum.

The story is what you make of it. Was it a dream? Was the narrator making it all up to seduce the woman or did she really have trouble remembering him and where they had met just a year before? Maybe I've seen too many episodes of The Twilight Zone or The Seventh Seal one too many times, but for some reason, I chose to believe he was Death coming to take her. Having chosen this interpretation for myself at the outset, I just relaxed, enjoyed the view and smiled through the whole thing.
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Big Magilla wrote:
Eric wrote:Magilla, were you in a dysfunctional family perhaps? I'm sensing a theme.
Only the one on this board.
Well played.
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Big Magilla wrote:I have nothing against films about dysfunctional families in general, just dreary ones that pass themselves off as comedies. The kids' Christmas play was the only thing I laughed at in the whole damn movie.
I never thought it was supposed to be a comedy. Maybe I missed the same marketing materials that you saw, Magilla. I did laugh (more than just at the play) but overall this material is dramatic, and though it may be handled with a light touch, that does not make it a comedy in essence.
IMDB - genre - Comedy, Drama

Satellite Awards - Catherine Deneuve, Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Also there was some talk of the film being nominated for Golden Globes in the comedy categories.
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Big Magilla wrote:I have nothing against films about dysfunctional families in general, just dreary ones that pass themselves off as comedies. The kids' Christmas play was the only thing I laughed at in the whole damn movie.
I never thought it was supposed to be a comedy. Maybe I missed the same marketing materials that you saw, Magilla. I did laugh (more than just at the play) but overall this material is dramatic, and though it may be handled with a light touch, that does not make it a comedy in essence.
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The Purple Rose of Cairo - 6/10

It's an interesting premise, entertaining enough, but the best scenes take place in the theater. The dialogue is surprisingly weak and repetitive for Woody Allen, too. Jeff Daniels was pretty good in his two roles.




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Big Magilla wrote:A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Despelchen) 2008 6/10

The woman, played by Catherine Deneuve, is not particularly pleasant or nice. She smokes and smokes and smokes.
Hey I love women who smoke.....and a smokin' Deneuve couldn't really be all bad!!
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Eric wrote:Magilla, were you in a dysfunctional family perhaps? I'm sensing a theme.
Only the one on this board.

I have nothing against films about dysfunctional families in general, just dreary ones that pass themselves off as comedies. The kids' Christmas play was the only thing I laughed at in the whole damn movie.

Not excruciating to watch like Rachel Getting Married, but not something I'd care to sit through again any time soon.
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Yeah, I have a hard time understanding how the clumsy dramaturgy and leaden storyline of I've Loved You for So Long is ahead of Desplechin's dizzyingly entertaining masterpiece.
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Magilla, were you in a dysfunctional family perhaps? I'm sensing a theme.
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A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Despelchen) 2008 6/10

Acting and production values are good but this is ultimately just another dreary tale of a dysfunctional family, somehow erroneously classified as a comedy. It evolves around the need of a woman for a bone marrow transplant. The woman, played by Catherine Deneuve, is not particularly pleasant or nice. She claims to hate her black sheep middle son (Mathieu Almalric) and not know her emotionally disturbed grandson (Emile Berling), the only two family members who are compatible, as she smokes and smokes and smokes while trying to choose between the two or even undergo the transplant at all.

Last year's other two high profile French imports, Tell No One and Ive Loved You So Long were far more satisfying IMO.
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Day of the Outlaw (1959) Andre de Toth 7/10

The Kiss of Death (1977) Mike Leigh 4/10

Disgrace (2009) Steve Jacobs 4/10

Terminator Salvation (2009) McG 4/10

Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972) Hans-Jurgen Syberberg 6/10




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Would love to see a list of the other 9.
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anonymous wrote:Blood Simple (Joel Coen) - 9.5/10
One of the 10 worst movies of the 1980s.
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Blood Simple (Joel Coen) - 9.5/10
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Noodle (2007) Ayelet Menahemi 5/10

Sunshine Cleaning (2009) Christine Jeffs 4/10

Fanboys (2009) Kyle Newman 3/10

Welcome Home (2008) Jean-Xavier de Lestrade 4/10
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