Bertrand Bonello, 2011
#5, 2011 Skandies
- This is one of those movies that isn't about plot or character or
theme but about texture, i.e., one of those movies of a sort I generally
do not like
- It is also one of those movies in which a character has a surreal
dream at the beginning and the elements of that dream end up happening in
"real life" at various points in the movie, i.e., one of those movies of a
sort I generally do not like
- The Skandie voters went gaga over the way the movie is set in
1899-1900 and yet there is diegetic music from the 1960s — to
me that is interesting but not thrilling, and I've encountered
anachronistic music in movies before
- The film is about a brothel and conveys how a brothel is about as
erotic as a meat packing plant is appetizing, but I didn't expect a
brothel to be erotic in the first place so it's not like scales fell from
my eyes
- I did like the cut at the very end involving the number 24
- I guess that's about it
