03-17-2022, 11:05 PM
Have now seen this.
I don't know how to comment on this, the subject matter is so volatile, except to say it could not have been made by more capable hands.
Still a bit surprising to me that it was made at all, let alone attained Criterion stature.
Yet to be fair, even Satyajit Ray's masterful trilogy sort of ventures there (radical age differences) in the final volume, when the protagonist heroically rescues a 13-year-old bride left abandoned at the altar (and facing lifelong ruin) by agreeing to marry her on the spot.
The daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg is really young here, not yet starting to resemble her father Sergio.
Not really recommended, but glad I finally watched this.
I don't know how to comment on this, the subject matter is so volatile, except to say it could not have been made by more capable hands.
Still a bit surprising to me that it was made at all, let alone attained Criterion stature.
Yet to be fair, even Satyajit Ray's masterful trilogy sort of ventures there (radical age differences) in the final volume, when the protagonist heroically rescues a 13-year-old bride left abandoned at the altar (and facing lifelong ruin) by agreeing to marry her on the spot.
The daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg is really young here, not yet starting to resemble her father Sergio.
Not really recommended, but glad I finally watched this.