I had a trip to Portugal recently so I rented this film.
This is definitely an "arty" type film. Virtually every camera scene is a well thought out shot. We have scenes of the country side, the city, the locals, Lisbon etc... Some of scenes are neat, some of them are spectacular, some are nothing to scream about. The movie is also very absent of any dialogue. So basically you have a guy running around looking for his friend. Blah blah, yes we see the aqueduct, the fado singer, streetcars, etc...
The movie is just so damn slow and by the time he runs into his friend, the director of this movie decides to give him a monologue about why cinema is dying and how people don't know what's been happening to film and have been brainwashed by lame directors who don't know the true art of filmmaking. This scene is just a TOTALLY ego padding shot for the director..
This movie is just plain BORING.. Sure the movie LOOKS great at times, but a movie based on great shots with no characters virtualy and no story is not a total movie. Also scenes are just to obscure and make no damn sense because they are just overloaded with artsy symbolism. Also I felt that having sit through 90 minutes and then have a character BERATE me telling me that cinema is a dead art, and that its viewers are all zombies when I just been sitting through this CRAP I found this highly insulting to my intelligence. If all Wender's films are like this which my sister mentioned, I will NEVER watch another one again..
Rating 2 out of 10
This is definitely an "arty" type film. Virtually every camera scene is a well thought out shot. We have scenes of the country side, the city, the locals, Lisbon etc... Some of scenes are neat, some of them are spectacular, some are nothing to scream about. The movie is also very absent of any dialogue. So basically you have a guy running around looking for his friend. Blah blah, yes we see the aqueduct, the fado singer, streetcars, etc...
The movie is just so damn slow and by the time he runs into his friend, the director of this movie decides to give him a monologue about why cinema is dying and how people don't know what's been happening to film and have been brainwashed by lame directors who don't know the true art of filmmaking. This scene is just a TOTALLY ego padding shot for the director..
This movie is just plain BORING.. Sure the movie LOOKS great at times, but a movie based on great shots with no characters virtualy and no story is not a total movie. Also scenes are just to obscure and make no damn sense because they are just overloaded with artsy symbolism. Also I felt that having sit through 90 minutes and then have a character BERATE me telling me that cinema is a dead art, and that its viewers are all zombies when I just been sitting through this CRAP I found this highly insulting to my intelligence. If all Wender's films are like this which my sister mentioned, I will NEVER watch another one again..
Rating 2 out of 10