CRAAAAAPPPPP!!!!

boring overated shit!!!!

agent202 wrote:boring

Well, I do admit his films do have a paucity of car chases. But I will give him a pass on that.

overated shit

I wouldn't say overrated, but I would say that I am quite impressed how reactions to his films range from highly laudatory to fury.

I like him (the guy, his films). I love Red. It's my favourite romance. The reactionary Catholic side I cannot detect at all. I cannot remember the reference to AIDS/gays that Guy mentions, and google searches for "kieslowski homophobia"/"...AIDS"/"...gay" hasn't brought up anything, so I will dig out the DVD.

I can understand why he isn't to everyone's taste, but it is bewildering how he can evoke so much ire. He was a bleak and modest humanist (in my eyes) who filmed straightforward allegories with grace and simplicity.

GuyMercier wrote:as a hero ? certainly
all this woman has for problems is...

finding out her husband was unfaithful, etc)...

I don't see it being a necessity for a film's protagonist to be afflicted by the worst of all evils of the world in order to make it compelling. I like the fact that the problems afflicting his characters were often mundane. In fact, I would say it is more difficult to make a good film about a normal person than it is to make a successful film about a sensational or unusual person. This is demonstrated by looking at the mind-numbing list of "Best Film" Oscars over the past couple of decades - freaks (those perceived as) fuel popcorn.

Now, whether his films are good or not, well that's a matter of le goût des autres (sorry). My ex-girlfriend found a lot of his symbolism heavy-handed (Eardiebe seems to feel this too), but again, I didn't. This may be connected to my general tactlessness.

Eierdiebe wrote:...and i take serious issue with his statement that the film is inferior to the novel..

Yes thankyou, me too and that's by far the most interesting statement on this thead so far. I get sick to death of the cliche that the novel is superior to film. They're both entirely different mediums though I do prefer my fiction on celluloid most of the time.

I thought White was the weakest of the Three Colours trilogy.

just recently saw the Double Life of Veronique for the first time and i didn't particularly care for it. in fact, on the whole the film struck me as rather shallow. despite all the nice cinematography and lighting it felt underdeveloped -- like a typical sensual european flick that mostly differs from hollywood fare in its cozy atmospherics and avoidance of crassness.

big whoop.

and the premise, that this young woman had a double and was somehow eschewing danger through her double's mishaps and eventual death, was applied very weakly. (by constast the premise of Le Cercle Rouge, for instance, wasn't put forth very well at all either, but that movie help up in spite of this.)

there are much more compelling and enriching films out there than The Double Life of Veronique.