adrianmendizabal
29Jun11
Really? why so?
Two sea snakes, a few sharks and a man getting devoured by a giant rotting potato.
I'm a bit obsessed with this film; to me it's sort of a noble failure. Saw it at two in the morning at a time in my life where I was depressed. I don't believe all the fragments come together but there's something about it all.
Penderecki's score doesn't just function as mere supplement to Resnais' incessant re-workings of time, its collective history and memory, but rather it excavates the fractured feelings that are embedded in them. Beautiful score!
I liked the atmosphere of the movie and the puzzle you have to put together. But the only real problems I have with it is that the sci-fi factor, the traveling in time, doesn't change or influences the actually theme or story of the movie. If this element wouldn't be in the movie it could be shot in the same matter, showing glimses of memory. Except of the ending that is, but I still don't know what to think about it
I got a friend to bring me back a DVD from Paris. sadly I can only play it on my computer :/
'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is to 'Je T'aime, Je T'aime', as 'Last House on the Left' is to 'The Virgin Spring'.
Finally got my hands on a high quality DVD transfer from "Les Grands Films Classiques" but without English subtitles. Luckily I have a buddy who graduated with a degree in foreign languages, so I'm going to try to work something out with him in order to have it translated. That way I can load it onto my computer and add subtitles myself. Hopefully it will go according to plan.
Pretty amazing. The ending was a little abrupt, but then again it sort of reminded me of Coeurs' ending.