the seat behind me after Happy End (for real)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4okt44j6ffwv5jz/IMG_0218.jpg??raw=1
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4okt44j6ffwv5jz/IMG_0218.jpg?raw=1
still can't understand the laziness about starting a new thread for a new film by a worthless auteur
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
you think they deserve a new thread per film but are worthless?
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:13 (six years ago) link
No need to start a thread for every single new film. You've seen the stories about bitcoin, every new transaction kills trees.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 December 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
Happy End specifically references Amour at one point, so it makes sense to revive this thread.
it's quite free and loosely structured
Yes, I really liked this aspect; Haneke brilliant as ever at suggesting other stories behind the stories, things unsaid, secrets kept from the audience and perhaps even from the auteur.
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 7 December 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah mentioned the continuities above but since Morbs hates Amour...I think where I disagreed with the S&S rev is that Amour is probably my favorite of his films from the last decade, and it's a pretty unique depiction of a certain phase in a relationship. Something I will return to again whenever I get to a re-watch.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 December 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
i wasn't quite sure what happened with Pierrot at the dinner - does his mother break his finger or what? i was also confused by Pierrot's karaoke performance - what happens at the end of that?
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
This film was very funny. I think the sight of isabelle huppert in anything now automatically makes me ready to laugh. Her main thing seems to be often that she is too busy to be in whatever film she is supposed to be acting in. Often it feels like she is just trying to finish the conversation the other actor is trying to have with her so she can get her coat and leave. I saw her acting in a terrible play once and she was not nearly so funny as she is in this. She's gotten much better as well. I rewatched La Ceremonie not too long ago and keeps jumping about the place making funny faces.
There's shot near the beginning where IH is driving along the security fences in Calais on the mobile phone, along a very modern motorway that made me think of this line from an interview with Deleuze where he says "Control is not discipline. You do not confine people with a highway. But by making highways, you multiply the means of control. I am not saying this is the only aim of highways, but people can travel infinitely and ‘freely’ without being confined while being perfectly controlled. That is our future." I kept thinking about this all the way through the film, the distinction between these different regimes of power, discibline for refugees control for the vapid bourgeoisie. The security cameras which are watching the site (during the collapse) and the CCTV along the fences become are mirrored by the highways, mobile phones, email and social media. I think this was a major theme of the film, the industriousness of the middle classes in making their own prisons. Like John Lewis.
I could have done without the karaoke scene. That was pretty tiresome.
I kept thinking of Muriel by Alain Resnais which has many similarities but is more interesting and much funnier.
This is probably the best "new release" I saw this year.
― plax (ico), Friday, 29 December 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 December 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
Unexpected!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/31/michael-haneke-kelvins-book-10-part-english-language-tv-series
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
noted
Recommend me some Michael Haneke
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
Sorry, didn't see that one. Could be his World on a Wire!
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
psyche
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 1 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
Hmm. This Guardian Film article ranks Amour as Haneke's best movie.
Michael Haneke films – ranked!
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 23 March 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
I've only seen four of his films, and not the best-known ones; but 71 Fragments... is very good and even has some propulsion to it.
You knew that Haneke's career wasn't going to take off in the US when he refused the obvious subtitle for his remake of Funny Games: Sadistic Boogaloo.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
I think the sight of isabelle huppert in anything now automatically makes me ready to laugh. Her main thing seems to be often that she is too busy to be in whatever film she is supposed to be acting in.
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link