Year: 1966
While watching this movie close attention has to be paid on the technique, because that is what makes it a benchmark in cinematic history. The story (written by Francois Truffaut) is simple. There are several one liners which stays in your head long after the movie is over, one's you would love to keep quoting. The part with the journalists interviewing Parvulesco, Patricia among them, is particularly full of quotes like these.
The characters build up beautifully & naturally.Michel imitates Humphrey Bogart in his ways, & Patricia takes on the expressions & styles of almost everyone she meets. There is something so very dramatic about them, yet they are not overtly so, they are not forced to explain themselves or what they are thinking or feeling, but can be figured out .The climax is remarkable, with the drama being smoothened out every time it has an opportunity to build, it is more cerebral than apparent. The music is sure to grab attention while staying in the background like it is supposed to.
The name of the movie is more a reflection on the story telling technique, hasty, with jump cuts, digressions from the main plot in several places soon returning to carry on the tale & the end without credits or titles, it's almost like a breathless narrator telling a tale, only with images.
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talking about the music, Godard developed this very unique style of using a sort of discontinuity in the background score in this film. he continued with this style in later film like Vivre sa vie.
@ the none... yes, i made a unforgivable error of not mentioning anything about the music, thanks. =)
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