IdleRich
IdleRich
Anyone seen this film? Watched it yesterday and to be honest in some ways at least I found it a bit of a chore to get to the end. On the other hand it certainly had something about it, the dreamlike feel that is so often attributed lazily to many films was actually apparent here and it must surely have been an influence on David Lynch (for Mulholland Drive especially). The sundappled streets of Paris look beautiful and magical and the close friendship between the two protagonists has an exciting and conspiratorial fairy-tale innocence to it that makes you long for childhood. The beginning is long and slow after the famous Alice In Wonderland inspired chase that introduces the girls/women to each other and it seems to take hours of nothing much happening before the girls discover the magic sweet that takes them to the haunted house or magic stage set or whatever it is.
After this the constant repetitions of scenes from different angles and (sometimes) with slightly different protagonists is confusing and frustrating but also strangely sinister - particularly once you realise how the play/story/whatever ends.
The ending of the film when Julie and Celine do actually go on a boat trip (apparently the title is a play on words, in French to "go boating" is something equivalent to going on a wild goose chase) I found incredibly creepy. If you can stick the slow dreamlike nature of the film and the confusing lack of explanation for what is happening at any given point it's really quite rewarding. I keep thinking about bits of the film today and I can imagine that I may do for some time.
Apparently some bits of the film are improvised which probably explains the disjointed nature of the film, also there is a lot of wordplay which inevitably suffers in translation.
I've never seen any of Rivette's other films, are they like this? Are they good? What should I watch?
After this the constant repetitions of scenes from different angles and (sometimes) with slightly different protagonists is confusing and frustrating but also strangely sinister - particularly once you realise how the play/story/whatever ends.
The ending of the film when Julie and Celine do actually go on a boat trip (apparently the title is a play on words, in French to "go boating" is something equivalent to going on a wild goose chase) I found incredibly creepy. If you can stick the slow dreamlike nature of the film and the confusing lack of explanation for what is happening at any given point it's really quite rewarding. I keep thinking about bits of the film today and I can imagine that I may do for some time.
Apparently some bits of the film are improvised which probably explains the disjointed nature of the film, also there is a lot of wordplay which inevitably suffers in translation.
I've never seen any of Rivette's other films, are they like this? Are they good? What should I watch?