Category: Non-EnglishNot probably one of the best films that I've watched recently, the film finds Antonio Banderas' character who has just been released from a mental asylum following a life of juvenil deliquency. Victoria Abril's character is the porn star he slept with a year back and now he wants her to marry him. She doesn't so instead he kidnaps her and makes him fall in love with her!
There's plenty of eroticisim, the kind which is very easy to come by and there's nothing really aesthetic in his scenes despite the fact that Almodóvar is supposed to be one of the best film makers around from Spain.
The camera work on the other hand is handled extremely well, there's plenty of movement on the camera without a 100 cuts per second, he's used a lot of over head shots when needed to break the monotony and perhaps in a way they are the best shots I remember from the film. There's some political comments in the film but nothing really great, he skims the surface really and is stuck between a mainstream and an art house audience. I wasn't too impressed with the dialogues but the cinematography helps it a fair bit. That with the colors definitely make it a visual treat.
Recommendation level: 2.5/5 - Nothing superiror but not that bad either! I haven't seen any of this guys work yet so maybe my opinion on him but change in the coming days!
i need to watch more of his movies, made it thru ya tu mama mambien, only!i bought 'all abt my mother' but havent been able to watch it! :P
ReplyDeleteYou haven't? Incidentally I could have sworn I saw All About my Mother somewhere and now I remember it was in your collection.
ReplyDeleteCheck his stuff out sometime, pretty neat but nothing path breaking.