Two Movie Comments (CC & E)
Note: I also posted these comments under the European folder for movies.
This last weekend I watched two DVD French movies. One was marginally fine, whereas the other one was a disappointment. Anyway, here are my comments, starting with the marginally fine one.
Certified Copy (2012)
I found this film to be somewhat interesting. It's a slow moving drama, a character study of the two main actors (Juliette Binoche and William Shimell). The question the movie poses is are the two leading characters married. As the movie progressed, the answer seemed obvious to me.
The dialog between Binoche and Shimell was excellent, very crisp, sometimes insightful and at other times sniping. I liked it. The scenery and photography was also excellent.
If you're looking for action, however, there is none. Nor is this a story with a resolution.
Plot
Who knows? Maybe it's the disintegration of a relationship? Or maybe it's a typical day in the life of a bickering couple?
I give the movie 3 stars out of 5.
The other movie I saw was Elles (2012), which also stared Juliette Binoche. Though I couldn't find any reviews before watching the movie, I assumed it would be satisfactory since it was one of the nominees at the Berlin Film Festival.
This is a film in which Juliette Binoche plays a magazine writer doing research for her next upcoming article. While doing in-depth interviews with two of the subjects of her article, she's also juggling being a mother and a wife.
As best I could make out, the magazine article is about Parisian college students having to depend on prostitution for paying their way through school. The two women who portray such students in the film are almost vignettes within the overall context of the movie.
Though this is meant to be a character study of Binoche and (to a lessor extent) the two female students, I never connected with the story. Perhaps subtitles aren't always adequate. At times the movie seemed to border on being soft-porn.
Plot
A writer too wrapped up in her project, blurring the lines between her own life and those of her research subjects.
I give the movie 1.5 stars out of 5.
This last weekend I watched two DVD French movies. One was marginally fine, whereas the other one was a disappointment. Anyway, here are my comments, starting with the marginally fine one.
Certified Copy (2012)
I found this film to be somewhat interesting. It's a slow moving drama, a character study of the two main actors (Juliette Binoche and William Shimell). The question the movie poses is are the two leading characters married. As the movie progressed, the answer seemed obvious to me.
The dialog between Binoche and Shimell was excellent, very crisp, sometimes insightful and at other times sniping. I liked it. The scenery and photography was also excellent.
If you're looking for action, however, there is none. Nor is this a story with a resolution.
Plot
Who knows? Maybe it's the disintegration of a relationship? Or maybe it's a typical day in the life of a bickering couple?
I give the movie 3 stars out of 5.
The other movie I saw was Elles (2012), which also stared Juliette Binoche. Though I couldn't find any reviews before watching the movie, I assumed it would be satisfactory since it was one of the nominees at the Berlin Film Festival.
This is a film in which Juliette Binoche plays a magazine writer doing research for her next upcoming article. While doing in-depth interviews with two of the subjects of her article, she's also juggling being a mother and a wife.
As best I could make out, the magazine article is about Parisian college students having to depend on prostitution for paying their way through school. The two women who portray such students in the film are almost vignettes within the overall context of the movie.
Though this is meant to be a character study of Binoche and (to a lessor extent) the two female students, I never connected with the story. Perhaps subtitles aren't always adequate. At times the movie seemed to border on being soft-porn.
Plot
A writer too wrapped up in her project, blurring the lines between her own life and those of her research subjects.
I give the movie 1.5 stars out of 5.
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