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For Your Consideration (2006)
Average at best
I expected a lot more out of guest and crew. The films actors diverge from performing a satire to becoming so absurd and unbelievable that they become a sad spectacle. It was easy to see what they were attempting to create but beyond that, the characters lines and trying attempts at (improvised?) comedy fell flat. I was a big fan of his other works, but to me it seemed that he had run out motivation for this. At times the film took itself serious enough that it was easy to forget that a comedy was being attempted. The "inside jokes" were not really difficult to discern for anyone who has even a passing knowledge of how Hollywood works. Guests best comedy style revolves around a painful, difficult to describe raw humour, which is completely absent in this film. With more of his unique brand of humour it would have been more of a satire and less of a self-parody.
Un chant d'amour (1950)
Homophobia/Homoeroticism in Chant d'Amour
A reviewer's homophobia shouldn't delegitimize a film depicting homoeroticism.
Chant d'Amour already explores homosexual paralysis in a homophobic world.
The film's walland its metaphorical representation of societal homophobiaobstructs the consummation of love between the two males.
Homophobia hinders love within the film; but a review of the (beautiful, provocative, original) film shouldn't be hindered by homophobia.
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Ostrzhe sledované vlaky (1966)
Magnificent
Portrays WWII in a way that only 1966 could provide. Quirky, erotic and bubbling at the seams with subtle sexual innuendos throughout, Closely Watched Trains is difficult to classify. Placing a genre on the film would be insulting, it's every part comedy for it is drama. I couldn't help but get the feeling that being male I could identify with aspects of the male characters more so than a female watcher may. But then again, I think either could enjoy it, either a male noticing traits in the male characters in himself or a female realizing what she has had to deal with. Either way it's a great film and completely unlike anything I have ever seen. It has that comedy appeal that you can't always quite place your finger on, but has you laughing out loud. The juxtaposition of the absurd and pubescent will make anyone cringe with delight. I recommend this to anyone at any stage in life. Watch it with your kids, it will do them good. It's funny to think that the young awkwardness lingering through this film is still very much the same for the teenage boy. You would think that sexuality discussion in the media would have peaked long past the 70's heydays...
Jubilee (1978)
Vile
The 70's were worthless, a paltry shadow of the 60's, a hangover of a generation. What I got from this film and my moderate modicum of knowledge of punk was that you either became corporate or rebelle and had no cause, ala the punks. I realized the punks embraced dissent in the form of doing nothing, and embracing it. Their rebellion was an embodiment of what they viewed outsiders as. As paradoxical as that sounds it's as though they thought the world and those around them were vile, worthless trash, and took it upon themselves to become that. You can taste the grit of 1977, and it makes you feel dirty. I thought I hated this film, but I think that's the point. It's vile, and digusting, has nothing behind it but some images and scraps of ideology.