Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 2, 2007 0:36:48 GMT
Before SunsetRichard Linklater 2004 USA Jesse and Celine meet nine years after their first meeting.
The characters have developed into wiser, older adults, and the two actors embody them convincingly; sometimes the performances are entirely natural, others they seem forced and awkward. Linklater's philosophical dialogue puts the two into a sketchy context, of a world in dismay, and it feels at its most contrived and cheap when it's talking about the state of American culture and making references to people dying of curable water diseases. The real-time unfolding of the narrative adds an immediacy to the events which Before Sunrise[/i] didn't have - when that film finished, so did the characters' night together, but here, it's the other way round, the film only finishes when the characters part... and when we see a shot of the two on a boat which is sailing into its dock, we feel a real sense of time running out. Self-reflexively, as is suggested early on, it ends on a decidedly ambiguous note, infuriating but sensible.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Apr 2, 2007 0:38:03 GMT
Thank god you're back to posting in these sections. I felt it improved the site massively.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 2, 2007 0:40:08 GMT
Yeah, I've decided against cast and crew credits, though. That took forever.
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