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Noce blanche (1989)
Any attempt at af film version of Lolita will be more rewarding
The only thing this film has that Kubrick or Lyne do not is nudity.
Vanessa Paradis' bottom is documented throughout, often without real purpose or reason. Otherwise, she is remarkable for a first film shot when she was 16.
Crémier should have known better and this is not a film anyone watches to rate his acting skills.
The representation of the French schooling enviroment is accurate, as can be expected of a director who had been a teacher.
However, all of the above is just wrapping for a tedious, pointless, soliloquy on the identity of death and love (or at least sex); The firlm goes on and on without displaying any real commitment to its topic: it is not a cautionary tale, not a celebration, not absurd, just not.
Watched in French when it came out. Watched partially again in English 2022.
Foundation (2021)
Beautiful but needs something to happen
Asimov himself thought his Foundation series were never filmed because they could not be: nothing happens in the books. Characters narrate galaxy-changing events in one or two paragraphs or a short dialogue.
Gone also is the American white teen as Lord of the Universe of magazine sci-fi. Some important characters are women, blacks, or both.
Approach it for what it is: a very ambitious tale of how an Empire falls and perhaps will be rebuilt. Production values are very good for a TV series, the acting is decent, sometimes even good, the writing is struggling with the peudo-science but does not insult your intelligence...
Some episodes have interesting story promises, others stay firmly entrenched with space cowboys.
Give it another season or two and it could find its own voice.
Loki: For All Time. Always. (2021)
Tedious
This review probably will not make me any new friends... I like the show, the cast, the production values, even the time-travel premise but
22 minutes of talk in one scene?
Of course, watch it for yourself (I know you will) but this is lazy story-telling.
Anna (2019)
Do not waste time or money
John Wick but with a tall blonde who cannot act her way out of a wet paper bag in the lead.