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Le dernier combat (1983)
Like nothing else you've ever seen
The first feature directed by Luc Besson (Leon, The Fifth Element) is extremely odd: a post-apocalyptic (!) B&W (!!) film with almost no dialogue (!!!?!) and the occasional downpour of fish. But it's intensely engaging in its story of people reduced to an insane, primitive state and just trying to get by. Despite clearly being made on a budget of 6 francs and a stale baguette, it sucks you in as well as any of Besson's high-budget movies. 8/10
Happiness (1998)
Well-crafted blob of discomfort
Basically a Robert Altman interaction-of-multiple-lives movie, only if Altman was a lonely sexual deviant who got off on making people uncomfortable. If you enjoy the discomfort and failure of others, you'll like this film; if not, then not.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
All is explained
Apocalypse Now reveals, more than any other film, the insanity of the Vietnam War. Hearts of Darkness reveals the insanity of Apocalypse Now. Coming off the first two Godfather movies and The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola took on Joseph Conrad and 'Nam at once, and while he came out of it with another classic, it was his last. The years spent on the movie where EVERYTHING went wrong -typhoons, military interruptions, health problems, Dennis Hopper being Dennis Hopper, etc. - broke him, and while he had several successes afterward, they never rose to the same level. This documentary is the documentation of Coppola using up that last bit of transcendent skill to just get this damn movie out.
Adieu au langage (2014)
A 21st century "Un Chien Andalou" - complete with le chien
If the above title makes sense to you, not only will you understand this film, you'll probably like it. If it doesn't - or if you require a film to contain such things as a plot, characters, or coordination between the audio and video - then this probably isn't for you.
It's more a mishmash of recorded experiments than an actual movie, the kind of thing you can get away with releasing only if you're a Surrealist ... or a director with a 55-year track record like Jean-Luc Godard. It's worth watching if you like having your senses and expectations messed with for 70 minutes (and are willing to constantly remind yourself that your Internet stream isn't faulty, that's just the way the movie is). Otherwise, don't bother. I admire the way it pushed the envelope, but wish it had actually pushed it in some direction.
(WARNING: may cause migraines. Not a joke.)