Thursday, October 13, 2011
AMERICAN PIE
Today's Wong Kar-wai’s first English-language feature
I don't think that it went anywhere and as you can see from Ebert's review he just didn't fucking get it. And he is a fan of the director.
I got it. In fact I think it is among his best.
Jude Law (!), Norah Jones, Rachel Weitz, David Straithairn (untypable), and a fantastic Natalie Portman. All stops out.
It is an anthology film, three episodes held together with the story of one woman recovering from a bad breakup. Not a strange subject for Wong at all. Most of his work is like that. Also in most scenes very tight in.
Lots of wonderful lights. Slow motion editing. The Americans hate that.
We are taught about this early on. Jude Law, great, runs a coffee shop and he has a teevee monitor. He watches the tapes in down time and says that he is amazed how much e misses when he is just there doing his work. It is all on tape for him to see. So much has been left out. We see some samples.
That is one of Wong's points I think. Watch. See. Stop the action and get it.
I was worried about seeing this because it did not get great reviews. Watch. See. Not very Hollywood, is it?
I will give this one a 4 out of Netflix5.
And great shots of blueberry pie ala mode.
Labels: films
