Since Sports Are Now On - What Are You Watching?
Dec 1, 2020 20:49:59 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 1, 2020 20:49:59 GMT
3. Before Trilogy. So I think Sunset is the "best" of the 3 for reasons I'll get into below, but Sunrise stuck to my ribs in a particular way. I fancy myself as a film purist and while masterofallgoons and Jep know more about the art of it than I do, I'm a sucker for the simple things, a good script, committed performances and beautiful camerawork and that's what this entire trilogy is. This is really film in its purist form as it's just two people talking. Basically for 100 minutes, 80 minutes and 110 minutes. That's it. And yet, their characters become so clearly defined, they evolve over the trilogy, they learn, they grow, they regress and in the end, they're excruciatingly real and flawed.
Very good "ramble". And thanks for the nod, but I am not sure it is warranted - while I do consider myself a cinephile and I have watched many more classics and non-Hollywood movies than the average film-goer, it is one of the great frustrations of my life that I couldn't write a decent in-depth review of a movie if my life depended on it.
"Before Sunrise" reminds me of a great Sunday I spent with an Austrian girl I met at the Youth Hostel in West Berlin (yes, it was THAT long ago). Unfortunately the sequel wasn't like "Before Sunset" - I showed up unannounced in her home town of Salzburg weeks later mistakenly assuming that she would be as happy to see me as I was looking forward to seeing her. Not my happiest memory!