BEFORE THE RAIN
Thomas Stottele
>>I've seen it, and I didn't like it. The beginning was great and the ending
>>was ok, but the 2 hours in between were most boring. Although it didn't
>>justify 3 hours of film, I think that the story was good and I also felt
>>that the French criticism against Kusturica was highly unfair.
>
>of course i agree with your critic of french criticism. the visive approach of
>the first part of the film was great, especialy the zoo scenes. the ending,
with
>the quotation of l'atalante (the third and last movie directed by the great
>jean vigo)
>and further with the final speech left me uncertain, even if i admit the
>goodness of shots.
>
>i liked also the *fellinian* dreming way to tell the whole story.
>
Well, and I like Fellini.
I agree with you about the ending; here Kusturica got totally lost in
allegories, and (close to) pretentiousness. His attitude toward the
subject matter is a bit naive, and sadly his cinematic language seems
to adjust to this attitude. I still remember that one shot of the
burning wheelchair which was, I guess, supposed to be haunting,
unsettling, yet I felt that it was ridiculous.
Cinematically, UNDERGROUND is a rehash of TIME OF THE GYPSIES, only
faster. But in TIME OF THE GYPSIES everything works, the lush
images and the story go wonderfully together, and I simply love
this film. In ARIZONA DREAM, on the other hand, Kusturica tried too
hard to achieve a dreamy atmosphere, and delivered only esoteric
crap - except for Vincent Gallo doing the cropduster scene from
NORTH BY NORTHWEST, which is absolutely terrific.
I have not seen WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS and Kusturica's
first film.
Thomas
davide gatta
>
>Cinematically, UNDERGROUND is a rehash of TIME OF THE GYPSIES, only
>faster. But in TIME OF THE GYPSIES everything works, the lush
>images and the story go wonderfully together, and I simply love
>this film. In ARIZONA DREAM, on the other hand, Kusturica tried too
>hard to achieve a dreamy atmosphere, and delivered only esoteric
>crap - except for Vincent Gallo doing the cropduster scene from
>NORTH BY NORTHWEST, which is absolutely terrific.
>I have not seen WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS and Kusturica's
>first film.
unfortunately i have not seen all of these movies: i missed *time of the
gypsies*
while *ariziona dreaam* has never been distributed here in italy.
i have seen and apprecieted *when father was away in business*:
do you know the plot?
aloha!
davide gatta