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Paul Schrader, Roger Deakins, John Mathieson, George Pelecanos, Jay Adler (a.o.), Mary Astor (a.o.), Steve Brodie (a.o.), Joseph Calleia (a.o.), William Conrad (a.o.), Richard Conte (a.o.) (lisää)Arvostelut (1)
The Rules of Film Noir is that rare type of retrospective documentary that isn’t made up of cut-rate anecdotes from the filming of a half-forgotten classic and adoration of dead colleagues, but is instead an attempt to define the style of a certain group of films (a group that also contains, for example, The Master’s Touch, which encapsulates the hallmarks of Hitchcock’s work). Despite that, however, the film suffers from ills similar to those that afflicted Going to Pieces, a documentary about the slasher genre. Though the attractive means of presentation (with an occasionally ironic wink) will be appreciated by noir fans, I’m afraid the film doesn’t offer real experts a satisfying amount of revelatory information. The Rules of Film Noir doesn’t embrace some basic questions at all (is noir a genre/subgenre/trend?) and too briefly addresses others (at least poetic realism could have been mentioned as an influence). However, there is sufficient information to give viewers an elementary overview. Nevertheless, what I consider to be the film’s main benefit is that when it's over, you are guaranteed to get a taste for a portion or two of chiaroscuro fatalism.
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