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I was lucky that I began seeing films when I did. The beginnings were auspicious - "Far from the Madding Crowd", "Butch Cassidy", "If ...." - but, much as I thought all of these were wonderful films, much as all but "If ...." have stayed with me all this time, I never viewed any of them but once until the advent of DVD, and I'd qualify none as "my favourite film". My favourite film is on offer right here, and it was something I saw four times on its first run. One thing about "Personal Best" that has, I think, inhibited its recognition is the fact that nobody much has really seen it for what it is. Coming out in 1982, a year after "Chariots of Fire" had taken North America by… Read more
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At some point or other, somebody decided that films had to fit into a tight and mutually exclusive taxonomy - hence "buddy films," "feminist films," "road films." I've heard "La Vie revée des anges" tagged as all three. Okay, if it has to be something, let it be a "road film." Although the phenomenon of young people without education or training travelling from place to place was a 1980s-90s phenomenon in every developed country, the making of films about it seemed to become the province of US independent directors and of the French. One big difference is that the American indies concerned themselves with poor whites, what the media call trailer trash - "My Own Private… Read more
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It's hard to come objectively to yet another piece of (relatively mild) Bertolucci erotica. We all know about "Last Tango in Paris" and how its leads felt cruelly exploited afterward, and fear it's going to happen again. The eroticism of "Stealing Beauty", whatever charge it carries, is all pretty much peeping-Tom stuff. Having said that, we have to go on to Bertolucci's love of the visual, which explains a lot; and the feast for the eyes here is as much a hundred or so spectacular Tuscan views as it is every square inch of Liv Tyler. Her character, the young American Lucy, is acted upon rather than acting, so she needn't preoccupy us overmuch when we talk of… Read more
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