Friday, February 22, 2008
DEAR DIARY
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Eric Roehmer's
This film is like a documentary or a home made film. In a good way.
It shows the days in the life of a lonely young woman as she tries to find a way to spend her vacation.
It is all natural light. Handheld.
The scenes or diary pages are short but the emotions of loneliness are long.
It is beautifully done although, in the beginning, it is a bit unsettling as we do not know where we are going or even where we have been in a conventional sense.
The plot is nonexistent.
It is captivating.
A big part of the ideas in the film have to do with signs and chance.
Part of this involves the elusive 'green flash' that I have seen in the Caribbean several times.
It is fun to see Roehmer play with this on-again off-again phenomenon.
Irritating that the French title is not translated for the American run. The green ray. How hard is that?
Summer means nothing.
I liked it a lot.
A 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
