Saturday, October 4, 2008

VIFF: A Christmas Tale



my rating: (was meh) walk out

my blurbie:
french movie about a dysfunctional family during christmas starring catherine deneuve. can't go wrong right? WRONG!!!

this was a self-indulgent, video poetry piece of crap. every cliche arty device was used:
- talking directly to the camera
- using crazy music at weird moments
- characters that no one liked
- characters that didn't know why they were always sad
- an unloving mother
- accepted infidelity
- reading prose from a book

ok, so these things seem pretty tame but when it's implemented with a fake artsy hand, it becomes a big pile of poo.

i feel bad that i dragged friends to watch this tonight.

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