Wow!!! This is what great cinema is all about....breaking boundaries,being experimental ... doing something different . Firstly this is not a musical it is a modern film opera.. there's not many of them ...so don't think you are going to come out whistling a happy tune. This is a visually stunning film with some truly epic set pieces.
There is a serious message as well for this 'me too ' generation about man's need to act and be like god and control all aspects of life ..including death . There is symbolic imagery all over the film too from the marionette Ann ette to the Eve like apples that Marion Cotillard keeps biting into .. or is that representing Snow White.
Carax gives this film everything he's got and I have to admit half way through I was all for giving up but somehow he pulls you round and by the end you can see his intentions and reasoning behind the imagery and performances. This is a film you can wait years for and I can assure you are not going to forget. Driver and Cottilard are on epic form . Stick with this film for a truly great experience. WELCOME BACK TO CINEMA!!!!
There is a serious message as well for this 'me too ' generation about man's need to act and be like god and control all aspects of life ..including death . There is symbolic imagery all over the film too from the marionette Ann ette to the Eve like apples that Marion Cotillard keeps biting into .. or is that representing Snow White.
Carax gives this film everything he's got and I have to admit half way through I was all for giving up but somehow he pulls you round and by the end you can see his intentions and reasoning behind the imagery and performances. This is a film you can wait years for and I can assure you are not going to forget. Driver and Cottilard are on epic form . Stick with this film for a truly great experience. WELCOME BACK TO CINEMA!!!!