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Agnès VardaKäsikirjoitus:
Agnès VardaSävellys:
Pierre BarbaudNäyttelijät:
Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck, Nino Castelnuovo, Jacques Charrier, Bernard La Jarrige, Britta Pettersson, Ursula Kubler (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
One of Agnès Varda least-seen films is also one of her most fascinating: an eccentrically imaginative science-fiction fantasia that touches on human nature, free will, and the creative process. Working with major stars for the first time on a feature film, Varda casts Michel Piccoli as a writer and Catherine Deneuve as his silent wife, a couple who relocate to the island of Noirmoutier (a longtime second home for Varda and her husband, Jacques Demy) where strange goings-on hint at a sinister force controlling the minds and actions of the residents. Slipping between “reality” and fiction, genre spectacle and avant-garde experimentation, Les créatures is a beguiling, endlessly inventive exploration of the mysterious alchemy that transforms life into art. (Criterion)
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A return to the days when I admired the natural acting style of Michel Piccoli and the beauty of Catherine Deneuve, unfortunately, in a controversial film. I was distracted by he chaotic editing, several nonsensical theatrical scenes and the music that overuses dragging strings, creating unpleasant discord. The highlight is a pair of bed sheet salesmen whose arrival on the scene looks like self-parody, and one of them, annoying to the max, behaves incomprehensibly like an overgrown child. In the last half hour, it degenerates into a bizarro, with the director chaotically pasting illogical scenes on top of each other. Denevue plays second fiddle here, her role commands her not to speak and to communicate only by writing on a blackboard, with no plot justification, which is odd. All in all, it manages to be surprising, and I'm still closer to this work than the current banalities, but I wouldn't hesitate to call it an arthouse wank. Agnés Varda is probably not my cup of tea.
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