Monday, October 20, 2008
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Roman Polansi's
This is one of those elaborately set-designed films of an antiquated work of literature (the kind we had to read in high school but probably not this one as there is rape and bastardy in it) which everyone has forgotten except for film producers and directors on the make for a low royalty outing and how many other comments can I cram into one sentence.
I don't like the genré at all. I get sleepy. I begin to think that the heroine—it could just as well be an unfortunate hero—is an ass. Naive. And has it coming to them.
It is also one of those things that basically teaches us that men are shits. But we knew that.
So I quit before I was ahead. No, not 'while' I was ahead. I always felt behind.
I did get to see country dances, a high end chicken operation, honey combs being harvested, loads of scenery beautifully filmed. And then I turned it off. I couldn't stand any more.
It is suprising to me that Polanski got himself caught up in such a lush project. Maybe he needed the money.
I could have watched it all, enjoying the cinematography while mocking the plot but weighing the pluses and minuses I had to go for the bailout.
Sorry, Roman.
And that Nastassja Kinski pout! How did you spell that name again?
That makes it a 1 out of Netflix5.
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