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Had potential but is rather lacking in many areas
A woman, desperate to hang onto the love that she has felt, tries to slow, stop or even reverse the passage of time. And, from here on in I was pretty much lost when it comes to narrative but the film didn't seem too bothered as it had other things on its mind. It sets up a strange dinner between the woman and a masked, demonic figure that causes strange things to happen until she is counselled (plagued?) by ghostly figures.
It is a shame that the narrative just doesn't work because the effort has clearly been put into the appearance of the film. Despite a television feel to the film stock (a limit of budget I assume) the film did actually look quite good; the animation is interesting and not the easiest to produce, using several styles and techniques the majority of which are successful and make for interesting viewing. Sadly, without a story to engage, the visuals become less and less interesting to the point where they do start to irritate because it felt like the director had just had lots of ideas of looks but little of substance. I would hesitate from calling the whole film pretentious but it certainly didn't help to have monastic chanting and solemn moments that suggest we are meant to be watching the most intense moralistic complex ever whereas really it doesn't mean that much to many of us.
A shame because visually it did have potential and the tone could have worked but the narration poetry (from Jelaluddin Rumi apparently) didn't make a narrative and didn't have enough value in themselves to allow style and substance to exist as two separate parts of the film. The forgiving viewer will see lots of good things that just don't come together as they should the standard, casual viewer will quickly feel distanced from it and put off by the rather pretentious air the whole thing ends up having.
It is a shame that the narrative just doesn't work because the effort has clearly been put into the appearance of the film. Despite a television feel to the film stock (a limit of budget I assume) the film did actually look quite good; the animation is interesting and not the easiest to produce, using several styles and techniques the majority of which are successful and make for interesting viewing. Sadly, without a story to engage, the visuals become less and less interesting to the point where they do start to irritate because it felt like the director had just had lots of ideas of looks but little of substance. I would hesitate from calling the whole film pretentious but it certainly didn't help to have monastic chanting and solemn moments that suggest we are meant to be watching the most intense moralistic complex ever whereas really it doesn't mean that much to many of us.
A shame because visually it did have potential and the tone could have worked but the narration poetry (from Jelaluddin Rumi apparently) didn't make a narrative and didn't have enough value in themselves to allow style and substance to exist as two separate parts of the film. The forgiving viewer will see lots of good things that just don't come together as they should the standard, casual viewer will quickly feel distanced from it and put off by the rather pretentious air the whole thing ends up having.
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- bob the moo
- May 25, 2005
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