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En forårsdag i Helvede (1977)
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It has all the necessary elements to be a good documentary. All but the sound mixing. Which is not that bad but the transition and mixing is sometimes....just annoying. During this documentary we see from a helicopter view the riders as they pass along the crowd with some Gregorian type of chanting in the background...no cycling noises no cars no nothing besides some slumber kind of classical music...Guess that's the 70s. And the slow motion to epitomize the heroic struggle not helping either. We want to see the rush, the unforgiving cruelty of the race. The narration is OK, very strict about what's happening and that's good. Very realistic compared to other documentaries depicting the same era, the announcer at the start is actually the one present at the Tour nowadays, if I'm not mistaken...a little older maybe :)A few minutes with no subtitles, nothing disturbing the overall comprehension of the situation. All in all, a catchy movie this one, with so much resemblance with the present day races in France, not surprisingly. If we take away the elements that were put in the movie to make it a documentary, it's if you are there watching. And that's all you need.
Spread (2009)
A remake maybe?
It's the American version of Hors De pr ix...apart from that it's not that bad, maybe they should have dwelled more on the backgrounds of Nikki because it's a bit fragmented how he reacts in some parts of the movie regarding he being a whore because 'i may have had a bad childhood' or something like that. the dialogs between Kutcher and Heche are okay but again it's so inconsistent that they are like mechanical reaction to each other. the french version had more life, humanity, fun and dynamics. and i feel that making Kutcher speaking in a lower voice trying to bring out the bad guy kinda thing didn't really help. overall it's okay if you didn't see - again - the french version.