Revu sur C8.
L'Homme est devenu homo absurdus, une créature ne pouvant plus rien comprendre et qui n'essaie même pas.
(French Films .org)
Me going through this film.
I remember laughing a few times watching it for the first time in my childhood but tonight, I was wondering what I was watching. Ruiz's La Ville des Pirates seemed far less abstruse to me, plot-wise and imagery-wise.
The prologue is great mainly thanks to its absurd dialogue and event, the epilogue nicely wraps the "story". The rest of the film "works" mainly due to the actors and dialogues (although those can be exhausting at times). And Depardieu has never been more "Depardieu" (seems like many of his later roles are, sadly, parodying this one in one way or another).
The decors used (newly build banlieues), the colours and the night offered great empty environments to what could be seen as Tram's nightmare (and in some ways, the France from then).
Score: _ /10
Plaisir: 3/5