Glamour cinema

I read a quote by Verhoeven in his mubi page: “The human being […] can’t stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness and he’d walk out or fall asleep.” While I love some of Verhoeven’s films, I think this quote shows great inattentiveness toward cinema. Glamour as a popular filmgenre does exist and it celebrates human desires. Happiness itself transgres the norms of what David Bordwell calls classical cinema though, by (partly) replacing the narration with choreographies and thus gaining some qualities of avantgarde films.

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