Providence
I think I have been trying too hard to like this film, somehow. Perhaps I should have watched another Resnais first, or I should have tried to get into the film more. Or I should have immediately started to get french or even german dub of this film, because I simply could not stand the “english”ness of these characters. And that’s supposed to play in Rhode Island? Anyways, la bourgeoisie should die.
What is interesting however, was that there were tidbits of the movie that were incredibly funny – and there were other tidbits where I thought “my gosh, this dialogue is actually really great!”, but on the other hand, I have been forcing myself through the majority of this film. I suppose I should put this film onto the re-watch list – and I will watch it with french dubs. After all, Gérard Depardieu is dubbing Kevin, which is just such an incredibly good fit. Just look at them and you’ll understand <3
From the “list that started it all”, this is the first film that I have kind of disliked. Perhaps this even is the worst of all of them, because I believe most or all of the others would be actually good and enjoyable films.
ahahaha, I wonder if you will ever watch another film by the director XD
Since I remember your annoyance with “Hiroshima mon amour” when you looked through the DVDs on my shelf!
Oh oh, this is the “Hiroshima mon amour” guy, hahaha. Well, after this film, I still don’t think he’s a bad director, by far not. I also found parts of the dialogue really well-written and the scenes greatly executed, it’s just that this is such an incomprehensible “Belle de Jour”-type story that I had to force myself to watch XD Sometimes I really like these purposedly confusing storylines, sometimes I rather dislike it. And here, the age of the characters and their weird way to talk (at least for me) didn’t help.
Aside from that, I am actually (somewhat randomly) interested in “Smoking/No Smoking” and I have to watch “On connaît la chanson” because it’s on my starting list.