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Worth watching just for the music... *spoilers*
posted by FergooseSTAFFMOD on November 2, 2020 at 5:55 PM
and the scene where Zula notices an empty seat. For the first 40mins I thought I was going to be watching something very special, but it all drifted with an increasingly far fetched tale and an almost comically abrupt ending. The film almost mirrored the tale of the two lead characters. So much talent squandered in apparently wilfully self destructive vandalism.
6/10
Reply by rooprect
on December 29, 2023 at 2:09 AM
Truth is stranger than fiction... the story (and yes apparently the ending) is about the director’s parents:
Paweł Pawlikowski: rendering personal histories in exquisite form
I really enjoyed this movie, even without knowing it’s based on a true story. The director throws a lot of gaps at us, forcing us to imagine what happens off camera. The result can be disorienting, but once you fall into the rhythm it’s like following a mystery that’s leading you to an inevitable conclusion.
"Get me out of here." "That's why I came."
In the interviews he talks about how an earlier version of the script had scenes & narratives that explain everything (dialogue about why they’re a bad match, a whole sequence in Italy showing her marriage to the “Duke”), but in the end he realized that these scenes arent necessary if, as he put it, you “trust your audience.”
Reply by rooprect
on December 29, 2023 at 5:51 AM
PS The music really is amazing! What's really cool is how the movie seems like it has a lush soundtracky score, but actually all the music is diegetic! In other words every song you hear is actually in the story, performed or heard by the characters. It makes for great realism while keeping the cinematic vibe.