Movies: Manoushe and Reservoir Dogs (TODS only)

[amedia]

TODS watched Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story online from Netflix. It turned out to be in Italian without subtitles! However, an attentive audience can well appreciate the film without a translation of the dialogue.

The movie is divided into a number of sequences of widely varying quality; the opening and closing segments, which serve as a framing device for the central segments, are sumptuously photographed with exquisite music and choreography. In contrast, the central parts, while not without clever moments, were far more pedestrian and less than inspired in their use of surrealistic elements.

Reservoir Dogs was another free movie from Jaman, much appreciated since it is considered a very fine movie. TODS would compare it to a painting from Picasso's blue period: a deliberately limited palette, but excellent in execution. Because of its self-imposed restrictions, he probably would not rate it as highly as others do, but he nevertheless enjoyed it.

Comments

[chorale.livejournal.com]

I thought Reservoir Dogs was an excellent film, and I liked the restrictions. I'd compare it to a piece of poetry where it's interesting to see what the creator did within the form they chose. Sometimes a lack of restrictions can lead to sloppy filmaking.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Very true!