Ebert :lol:
Metacritic :lol2:
Officially retired, aana innum passion kuraiyala. :notworthy: Once again, he turns out to be the voice of reason, “There are limits to artistic self-indulgence,” begins Todd McCarthy’s review in Variety. I disagree. And there are no limits to the pleasures that can be afforded from this kind of freedom. :thumbsup:
:exactly: Although he didn't touch on Tati's "Play time", it is implied and self-contained by that final point. All three films came out 67, and yet, none so particularly authentic on its time, name and space, manufactured its own universe. We still remember the hats and cars in "Le Samourai" or the multi-floored apartments and colored toilet lotions in "Point blank". The magic of films is that such universes transgress the purported rules of authenticity and become a unique fixation/redefinition of that time & era. Mostly they are utopian like every major city and too distant & mechanical in its character, that is only fair the lead character (in all these films) fail to "connect", even at faintest level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rosenbaum
This couldn't be made explicit and any more clearer by an obscure (the film is full of 'em) character 'Blonde' (played by Tilda Swinton), in an almost monologuized exchange with 'Man with no name'
Blonde: Are you interested in films, by any chance? I like really old films. You can really see what the world looked like......thirty, fifty, a hundred years ago. You know the clothes, the telephones, the trains......the way people smoked cigarettes**......the little details of life. The best films are like dreams you're never sure you've really had.
**- Cut to a Spanish waiter smoking the cigar - slow mo. and the full terrain plus a swift montage of terrain.
Then the ultimate tease of being in a film.
Blonde:Sometimes I like it in films when people just sit there, not saying anything.
*long pause*
And if you play this game like Jarmusch had, you'd better do it to T. It's faultless as I see it. In its ruthless defacement of 'everything' to its bare fundamentals, with a ridiculously post-modernist plot, a successful and memorable film. Timeless. :notworthy:
