You know the feeling when a thing as a whole isn't as exciting as it's small (sometimes) genius parts? No? Well at least you now know how I felt watching this movie. Not a bad experience (although a coherent storyline would've been nice), but neither a great one (at least for me) make up for a 6/10
While the comedy bits do work alone and without a great deal of empathy to/for the "main" character (or any other for that matter) and are entirely founded by a cynical/satirical look at our society/mannerisms, it never develops it's full strength. At least it doesn't for me. And although I watched a restored french version (gladly they're not talking that much, but even if, there's as I wrote earlier not a plot to follow, at least none that I got aware of) in 70mm I wasn't as amazed by it as other clearly are (look at the higher average voting for example) ...
While the comedy bits do work alone and without a great deal of empathy to/for the "main" character (or any other for that matter) and are entirely founded by a cynical/satirical look at our society/mannerisms, it never develops it's full strength. At least it doesn't for me. And although I watched a restored french version (gladly they're not talking that much, but even if, there's as I wrote earlier not a plot to follow, at least none that I got aware of) in 70mm I wasn't as amazed by it as other clearly are (look at the higher average voting for example) ...