In terms of contents and perspective, it takes a shot at the right wing in a pretty gratuitous and unearned way but that's quite trendy nowadays so whatever. I take no points away for that because the filmmakers are entitled to their political views whether or not I agree.
The movie itself was interesting. I feel like the tone and the visual style have a lot of potential but relatively little is delivered. I liked the idea of boldly integrating history into the very irreverent storyline - and sure, the Joan d'Arc analogy was enjoyable but its grand significance escapes me.
I just felt like every element proposed by this movie, be it visual or narrative, landed short of what it itself looked like it could have been. The violent scenes could have looked more interesting. The wide angle lenses could have been used more creatively, the strange, enigmatic, slightly disturbing characters, including the sons and daughters, SHOULD have been more and better developed. The the key dramatic moments like, you know, the killings, the reveals, the twists, should have resonated louder, and they would have, for one, had they made more sense, in a more complex way to the plot.
The movie is definitely special and tried something different. And that deserves points. But, interestingly, this wasn't clear from the start. I did write down in my notebook around 30 to 40 minutes in "is this movie an excuse to do the cinematography?" and "seems to try to be interesting using obsolete eye-innovations". So it definitely didn't rush to convince me of anything and only by the last 30 minutes did I feel a little content having watched it, but not much so.
Oh, and, I actually particularly liked the editing :)
Dans l'ensemble, comme ci, comme ça...
The movie itself was interesting. I feel like the tone and the visual style have a lot of potential but relatively little is delivered. I liked the idea of boldly integrating history into the very irreverent storyline - and sure, the Joan d'Arc analogy was enjoyable but its grand significance escapes me.
I just felt like every element proposed by this movie, be it visual or narrative, landed short of what it itself looked like it could have been. The violent scenes could have looked more interesting. The wide angle lenses could have been used more creatively, the strange, enigmatic, slightly disturbing characters, including the sons and daughters, SHOULD have been more and better developed. The the key dramatic moments like, you know, the killings, the reveals, the twists, should have resonated louder, and they would have, for one, had they made more sense, in a more complex way to the plot.
The movie is definitely special and tried something different. And that deserves points. But, interestingly, this wasn't clear from the start. I did write down in my notebook around 30 to 40 minutes in "is this movie an excuse to do the cinematography?" and "seems to try to be interesting using obsolete eye-innovations". So it definitely didn't rush to convince me of anything and only by the last 30 minutes did I feel a little content having watched it, but not much so.
Oh, and, I actually particularly liked the editing :)
Dans l'ensemble, comme ci, comme ça...