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The Cement Garden (1993)
Consider the making of the move.
Artful? Maybe. But consider what went on to produce The Cement Garden:
When it comes time to cast the script (that he has also co-written), the director chooses his son and his niece and two other youngsters.
Put yourself in the girl's place: Your uncle is leading you through the filming of a sexually loaded screenplay (over which, as the director, he is hovering). It culminates with you nude in bed getting down to basics with your nude "brother" and don't forget the director's young son confusedly wandering about dressed like a girl.
That's what went on behind the "art."
Was it good for the kids? I doubt it. Bunny-31 (6/26/00) liked The Cement Garden, but says that you shouldn't see it with family. Small wonder she felt that way. The four sibs may be actors, but they are no different from other kids trying to make sense of a highly sexualized world.
Was it good for the director? Well, let me take a wild guess and say that children's welfare was not heavy on his mind and that there was more going on in his psyche than the art of it all.
C'était un rendez-vous (1976)
great movie, but a motorcycle, not an automobile at all
In 1976 or 1977 my wife and I saw this movie in Paris. It was called Paris Nonstop at the time. It was not a Ferrari at all. It was a motorcycle and began, as I recall, by showing the motorcycle with the camera mounted off to the side. Same movie. Look at this one, by the way, and notice the "Ferrari" charging up a narrow street and approaching a truck on the right side. There is a woman on the sidewalk to the left with about 3 feet or so between the curb and the truck. The motorcycle does slow a bit, then tears through the narrow opening and acceleratesno chance it was a car of any description. Leaving that aside, as you watch whatever it was blowing red light after red light and blasting pigeons in every direction, you don't need to get huffy about how fast he might have been going. He was going way too fast for where he went. Note: No pigeons were (apparently) hurt in the making of this movie.