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m4dd0g said:Agreed. City of men wins my 'best lighting' award.
Also check out Dark City for the same 'I would love a poster of almost every shot'
i finally got my hands on dark city after wanting to watch it in its entirety for some 2 years (eek), since i missed the first half of the movie when i arrived late to one of my cinema screenings at uni.
the cinematography is good, no doubt about that, but what i was most impressed by in this was the set design, and the actual story, which were both phenomenal imo.
on the other hand though, i have now decided that i don't think that jennifer connely is as good an actress as i had previously thought. she’s still good, but she's pretty much the same in every single role that i've seen her in. actually, bar the blood diamond where her character was notably different from the ones she's played in the past, and she managed to pull it off. but still i’m not sure..
dark city however is definitely in my all time top 50 list.
...as i think is this movie the science of sleep.
if you've seen eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and you didn't enjoy it for whatever reasons, i'd say that you probably won't like this either, so it’s best to give it a miss. but if you did, i think you'll love it like i did.
its not the same of course as eternal, i was reading a review about it the other day which said that there's a certain shallowness to it that i guess in a sense is true, largely because the story doesn't tackle any monumental philosophical questions about the human mind or spirit, but it is rather, as gondry professes, a autobiographical work of his life. a life which i think is so amazingly innovatively and creatively displayed, not to mention at all times with an accompanying note of quirky humour, that when i wasn't laughing at the endearing characters i had a huge smile almost permanently plastered on my face.
i also read another article in a magazine about this movie where the reviewer said that "it is deeply confusing in a way that makes mulholland drive seem like meet the parents. by the end of the trip you'll probably be wearing the glazed-over look polite listeners get when you attempt to describe your own dreams to them." which i found to be a partly accurate discription, but mostly highly entertaining due to the mulholland drive reference. it is true, this film does blend dreams and reality to the point where sometimes you don't know which is which. and this is precisely why i realise not all people will appreciate its style, but personally i love the surrealism, and the wonderfully creative dream sets that were made out of cardboard and cellophane. so much so that this is probably my favourite movie release so far for 2007, and i would like to meet michel gondry
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