Already panned on moral and aesthetic grounds by the NYT's AO Scott. I liked it very much.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4816-behind-closed-doors-a-conversation-with-bertrand-bonello
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
J. Hoberman:
“Nocturama, the French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello’s daring and controversial follow-up to his 2014 Yves Saint Laurent biopic, is even more relentlessly stylish than its predecessor—an abstract thriller predicated on its young characters’ fantasies of taking revenge on the system and, less consciously perhaps, of liberating its largesse. The terrorists are ciphers but the movie is only superficially shallow. At once timely and timeless, it sets the aftermath of two centuries of French history to a hypnotic, trancelike beat.”
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/08/09/the-terrorists-go-shopping-nocturama/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
The Saint Laurent pic isn't particularly good – it reminded me of Star 80 in its use of fractured narrative to give a jolt to hokey material – but it sure was sexy.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
I liked it; this is one level up.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
(my fave by him is still probably the bordello movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1660379/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
I didnt dig this.
"Oooh Im so full of ennui, lets blow up a bank!"
Its up on Netflix now btw
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
idk I liked it
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 11:03 (six years ago) link
but MB that's a plausible mindset of such characters
also some are sketched as politically driven tho ideological bullet points are few (it's not what Bonello wanted to focus on)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link
I know social realism wasn't what he was going for but isn't it cowardly to strip their actions of all ideology? Especially in the second half, where the kids are portrayed as being in thrall to late capitalism/commodity fetishism. I mean there's truth in that but its a very surface level interpretation.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
tremendous movie is this, nothing like I was expecting it to be.
― calzino, Sunday, 14 January 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSkEkN01vKc
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:46 (one week ago) link
I blame David Lynch for this.
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2024 17:06 (one week ago) link
All kidding aside, this film was extremely Lynchian, down to the important of the Big O, but only in the best possible way.
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2024 17:07 (one week ago) link