Always been a fan of Antonioni, but for some reason I have never gotten around to watching this until now. Sadly I was not too impressed.
The visuals are for the most part top notch, but that's expected. The story however is really weak and the mixture or comedy and drama made it feel more like a structural mess than anything else. The opening is just so extremely serious and then after a little while we jump to the goofy stock market, and I have to tell you the stock market is not funny.
I do get that it's about humans in general and how unstable they are. Something which is underlined by the extremely pessimistic ending. And therefor it does indeed make sense to drift between comedy and drama, however most of the comedy parts were not too funny and most of the drama parts were not too interesting either.
Some scenes were awesome. Mainly the scenes including the girl from Kenya. But overall the characters felt lifeless. Even Alain Delon, who is one of my favorite actors, seemed like a doll. This is most likely due to a rather weak script though. Overall the cinematography and frames gave me something to be interested in but if it hadn't been for that this film would have been pretty weak in my opinion.
Rating: 6.5/10.
The visuals are for the most part top notch, but that's expected. The story however is really weak and the mixture or comedy and drama made it feel more like a structural mess than anything else. The opening is just so extremely serious and then after a little while we jump to the goofy stock market, and I have to tell you the stock market is not funny.
I do get that it's about humans in general and how unstable they are. Something which is underlined by the extremely pessimistic ending. And therefor it does indeed make sense to drift between comedy and drama, however most of the comedy parts were not too funny and most of the drama parts were not too interesting either.
Some scenes were awesome. Mainly the scenes including the girl from Kenya. But overall the characters felt lifeless. Even Alain Delon, who is one of my favorite actors, seemed like a doll. This is most likely due to a rather weak script though. Overall the cinematography and frames gave me something to be interested in but if it hadn't been for that this film would have been pretty weak in my opinion.
Rating: 6.5/10.