Rating: - Average Antonioni...
This film was Antonioni's first after a long hiatus from filmmaking. There are interlinking segments with John Malkovich as a film director that were directed by Wim Wenders, but overall, it's an Antonioni film. While there are some great shots and camerawork, it just felt empty. It's like one reviewer said: it was "Antonioni doing Antonioni". I kept looking for something profound and worthwhile, like in Michelangelo's masterpieces from L'avventura to Blow-Up (and The Passenger), but usually ... Read More
Rating: - A Real Piece of Art
This film is a genuine piece of art. If you are looking for Hollywooden action or a love story with a happy ending, then pass it up. If you can appreciate art for art's sake then you are going to love this masterpiece. Watch this film without trying to figure out what is taking place with each scene or segment, or without expectation and you will be rewarded with the brilliance of imagery and beauty. It has great architectural scenes, nice city and countryside vistas, and gorgeous nude women. ... Read More
Rating: - The most beautiful women ever to appear in a single film
If you speak French or can put up with sub-titles, you will really enjoy this movie. If on the other hand you just want to see God's most beautiful creatures, this is a must see. Not an ounce of silicon in sight. Zalman King eat your heart out. Sophie Marceau's body is the epitome of perfection and everything I had ever fantasized about. Her part is even in English. Even the fact that she was nude with John Malkovich did not detract for her beauty. Sophie is a ten if ever there was one. Chiara Caselli ... Read More
Rating: - An Extreme Film: Lovelorn, Dispair, and Humanity
Wow. I have never witnessed a movie so beautiful and haunting. It really feels like you are there, in the city, witnessing the lives of these amazingly human characters. The huge buildings really are like old "bones growing out from under the fog," and inside this vast timeless landscape are the humans' who's hopes are infinite yet must face the harsh limits of their own flaws and weaknesses. These beautiful love stories evoked a strange and transcendeding feeling from my heart. I can't really put words ... Read More
Rating: - Visual Glory, Boring Stories.
Director Michelangelo Antonioni has authored many outstanding films as "Blowup" (1966) and "Zabriskie Point" (1970) or more controversial ones as "The Night" (1961) and "Eclipse" (1962). All of them are refined aesthetical "oeuvres d'art" and at the same time they delivered some "message".
Director Wim Wenders has produced also some interesting film pieces as "Paris, Texas" (1984) and "Wings of Desire" Aka "The Sky over Berlin" (1987).
From the combined efforts of both of them I was expecting ... Read More