Time destroys everything.
After viewing 2009's Enter the Void (a movie I once called "a masterpiece I never want to watch again"), I promised myself I would one day seek out the rest of Gaspar Noé's filmography. That day turned out to be today. Like Memento (although not nearly as ingenious) this film is shot in reverse order and makes next to no sense on first viewing. Making use of his trademark long tracking shots and dizzying overhead shots, this movie is mercifully shorter than Enter the Void, but that doesn't make it any more watchable. Pushes you to the limits of your patience but this time the road is not as enjoyable.
1 excruciating 5-minute rape scene out of 5
2 comments:
i'm sorry but i can't stand this film. not only was it an unoriginal (backwards films were chic in '01-'02) film but it's just fucking depressing.
Depressing was kind of the point wasn't it? Time destroys everything. I agree it was very hard to know what was going on though and not always because of the non linear story.
2 the passerby in the alley is the worst of them out of 5.
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