I love this crazy and strange movie. It's one of my favourites of all time! I probably already watched it for about 10 times. A strange thing is that I don't like the end of this film. Not because it's bad, but just because it's the end.
If, like me, you didn't like the coarse comic of THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, you will adore WHAT?, the least known of all Polanski movies. Take the labyrinthine house of CUL-DE-SAC, set improbable characters à la Buñuel in it and ask a not so innocent Alice to spend three days and nights with them. Rosebud, sorry Alice, in spite of the numerous mosquitoes that haunt this gorgeous mansion, doesn't manage to wake up. She will suffer from the usual dream symptoms like the déjà vu feeling, the doors that won't open when you need it and a lot of these situations that make you want to awaken. Even Mr Noblart (!), the owner of this Xanadu and Orson Welles 's double, is called in by Roman Polanski in this witty. comedy. Highly recommended.
I have to ask, as I'm still a bit.....did I just see bits of Marcello in a beach scene that we really shouldn't see? Or is that just wishful thinking? What a fun film.
One of the best Polanskis period, you can have your Pianists and Frantics for all I care.
Some sympathetic moments (in all its weirdness) can't save this messy alice in wonderland all'italiana, or a la polanski more exactly. I know the charm is supposed to be on its absurdist situations, but I just didn't find it funny, rather incredibly boring and uninsteresting.