I want to indicate a thing of literary merita passage from Marx that Constance/Marie reads to the old Bolshevik lady.This makes it the third place where the existence of such exciting things is seized in Marx's worksNoica did this,pointing out such literary beauties in Marx's journalism.The second such place that I found was in Simmel.And this film is the third.I guess that such things could be find in Baudrillard also (and perhaps somewhere in the many French Structuralist Marxists who wrote in the '50s-'70s
);anyway,the pointing of the Marx's works' literary charm is something interesting.The quote given in this film is remarkably well chosen.As a writer,Marx was much better than the cohort of his trite followers.But this was here a literary parenthesis;anyway,the literary source offered the material for a postmodern piece of fun.
The film has a level of competence and fun that certainly makes it agreeable and interestingon a medium level,just enough to maintain it above the ridiculous.The passion for reading transforms, changes invariably into something elseor is already something else,or it is a bridge to a sphere of the life that has a more banal dimension;not even one case of passion for reading,as everyone wants something else from this and reading is but a pretext.So,it is more about various ways of misusing reading.All Constance/Marie's clients want something else from her,another form of fun.
One of the main deficiencies is the length:the film is obviously overlong.With this director's footage, a 40' movie would of been much better. Sylvette Héry 's hips and thighs are indeed beautiful and well-filmed,but the sexual side of The Reader is mishandled.The director lacked the necessary cinematographic culture and subtlety for such a movie.In conclusion,the movie is average and less amusing and beautiful than it could be.
Better scripted,and much better conceived and made,this could of been one of the best surrealist films.It was obviously above the director's aptitudes.It is interesting to think about who would of been suited for such a movie;a direction could of been explored by Truffaut.It would of been even less surrealist than it is in its actual director's hands,but it would of had style and more charm. Truffaut was the man for the graceful fairy ingenuity needed here.Another direction could of been explored by Bunueland then,the surrealism would of reached the heights.Anyway,one feels here the existence of a material for much better movies.It has potential.
The film has a level of competence and fun that certainly makes it agreeable and interestingon a medium level,just enough to maintain it above the ridiculous.The passion for reading transforms, changes invariably into something elseor is already something else,or it is a bridge to a sphere of the life that has a more banal dimension;not even one case of passion for reading,as everyone wants something else from this and reading is but a pretext.So,it is more about various ways of misusing reading.All Constance/Marie's clients want something else from her,another form of fun.
One of the main deficiencies is the length:the film is obviously overlong.With this director's footage, a 40' movie would of been much better. Sylvette Héry 's hips and thighs are indeed beautiful and well-filmed,but the sexual side of The Reader is mishandled.The director lacked the necessary cinematographic culture and subtlety for such a movie.In conclusion,the movie is average and less amusing and beautiful than it could be.
Better scripted,and much better conceived and made,this could of been one of the best surrealist films.It was obviously above the director's aptitudes.It is interesting to think about who would of been suited for such a movie;a direction could of been explored by Truffaut.It would of been even less surrealist than it is in its actual director's hands,but it would of had style and more charm. Truffaut was the man for the graceful fairy ingenuity needed here.Another direction could of been explored by Bunueland then,the surrealism would of reached the heights.Anyway,one feels here the existence of a material for much better movies.It has potential.