I’m so confused right now… I’ve seen this movie before, but wasn’t it in black and white? Er…
No! I’m thinking of Nathalie Granger, which also has Depardieu, but Jeanne Mureau and not Delphine Seyrig. D’oh.
This one has a kick-ass soundtrack by Carlos d’Alessio, just like India Song.
OK, I’d forgotten that the soundtrack is basically just the one song that’s looped over and over again? At least it’s been going for half an hour now.
This song. Which is great, but… an odd choice!
I remember liking this movie more than I do this time around. The problem is, I think, that neither of the actors who have spent most time on the screen — Noëlle Châtelet and Claudine Gabay — are delivering thrilling performances.
And the text… it seems so much less thought through than India Song, for instance. It’s more realistic, and more trivial.
Man, that’s some fireplace.
Heh, Delphine Seyrig’s character is called L’inconnue. OK, now it makes more sense that she’s not in any shots with other actors… I thought it was just because she’d been filmed on a day where nobody else were present. Didn’t even have time to take her coat off…
Which, I guess, may still be true.
*gasp* She’s in the frame with somebody else!
The movie is “about” renting this house — and it’s an exquisitely ugly house. Salmon-coloured wall-to-wall carpeting and these monstrous leather chairs… Those huge windows along with the blown-out shots… I think I understand why it is this way, but it’s sure not easy on the eyes.
Which would have helped with this dialogue.
Oh, the music is diegetic, as the kids say. The music is coming from an (ambulatory?) party? So it grows and ebbs in volume, but is always present.
Uhm… I like the movie — I mean, the general feel of the movie. But it doesn’t quite work? It’s basically a conversation, and what they’re talking about seems so trivial. My mind kept wandering… perhaps it’s a totes fascinating movie if I were concentrating more?
But no, I don’t think the movie really works.
Baxter, Vera Baxter. Marguerite Duras. 1977. ⚃
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