Originally Posted by ScarletLion (Post 2442000)
I've never seen The Piano. It looks like Grade A Hollywood attention seeking claptrap.
Originally Posted by ScarletLion (Post 2442010)
Thanks, I may give it a go in that case. I'm not a huge fan of Adrien Brody, so I've put it off.
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Originally Posted by AgrippinaX (Post 2442003)
That scene is actually from Polanski’s The Pianist, The Piano has got nothing to do with the Holocaust.
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Originally Posted by ScarletLion (Post 2442000)
I've never seen The Piano. It looks like Grade A Hollywood attention seeking claptrap.
It’s ok. Nothing great |
Originally Posted by ScarletLion (Post 2442000)
I've never seen The Piano. It looks like Grade A Hollywood attention seeking claptrap.
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Originally Posted by FilmBuff (Post 2442216)
Au contraire, mon ami! It was a co-production between New Zealand, Australia, and France, and it won the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, making Campion the first female director to receive the award.
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Originally Posted by ScarletLion (Post 2442226)
This thread has descended into error ridden farce (mostly on my part). I love the film the Piano. I have not see The Pianist. The Piano teacher is also a great film everyone should check out. Yay for pianos.
Overdue a rewatch. |
I haven’t seen this yet, but I aim to. I also don’t plan to shame anyone who doesn’t feel up to watching it quite yet due to perceived subject matter. I get it.
I also think these are the kind of films we shouldn’t avoid for long, either though. That period of time wasn’t something we should ever feel comfortable with, so these “reminders” as they are, shouldn’t be ignored. I’m watching Radu Jude’s The Exit of the Trains, which a 3 hour documentary about the massacre of Jews in Romania the night of June 29, 1941. Some were executed. Some died en route to a camp, on what was referred to as The Death Train. It’s told mostly in imagers of photos of victims and their family members explaining, often in harrowing detail what happened to them. Powerful stuff. |
I heard an interview with Jonathan Glazer saying that the thermal imaging sequences with the girl leaving food were based on his conversations with a woman who had lived in the area at the time and was a member of the Polish resistance as a teenager, so based on real events.
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Originally Posted by Wyldesyde19 (Post 2442374)
I’m watching Radu Jude’s The Exit of the Trains, which a 3 hour documentary about the massacre of Jews in Romania the night of June 29, 1941. Some were executed. Some died en route to a camp, on what was referred to as The Death Train. It’s told mostly in imagers of photos of victims and their family members explaining, often in harrowing detail what happened to them.
Powerful stuff. Romania - what a backward country. Never even knew they had an “army”. Currently one of the countries that badly mistreats animals. To put it mildly. |
Originally Posted by AgrippinaX (Post 2440883)
And that’s actually how I ended up thinking about how much Hedwig’s mother knows, which, I still think neither Hedwig nor her mother would actually go over the wall, go inside and watch. In which case, do they actually know?
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Re: The Zone of Interest (2023)
https://www.screendaily.com/features...188230.article
Amazed that Glazer made a movie in a language he didn’t understand. (Unlike the Napoleon movie in which he had an American accent.) |
Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 2453562)
If they didn’t know, why is Hedwig so hostile to the help? Her mother actually wondered aloud if her former employer, who she used to clean for, is in the camp. She was pissed because someone else outbid her on the poor woman’s curtains. :eek:
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Originally Posted by Wyldesyde19 (Post 2442374)
I haven’t seen this yet, but I aim to. I also don’t plan to shame anyone who doesn’t feel up to watching it quite yet due to perceived subject matter. I get it.
I also think these are the kind of films we shouldn’t avoid for long, either though. That period of time wasn’t something we should ever feel comfortable with, so these “reminders” as they are, shouldn’t be ignored. I’m watching Radu Jude’s The Exit of the Trains, which a 3 hour documentary about the massacre of Jews in Romania the night of June 29, 1941. Some were executed. Some died en route to a camp, on what was referred to as The Death Train. It’s told mostly in imagers of photos of victims and their family members explaining, often in harrowing detail what happened to them. Powerful stuff. I found myself not really watching for the plot and characters, but just wanting to get out of the theater, really ambivalent about watching something like this for a Friday night dinner-and-a-movie. |
Originally Posted by AgrippinaX (Post 2453588)
I’ve seen that reasoning. As I said earlier in the thread, I just feel like it’s a bit more nuanced than that. There’s ‘knowing’ in the abstract and then there’s knowing full well in granular detail. I don’t feel like there’s a clear logic to the mother suddenly leaving otherwise if everyone is 100% aware. But I could be off base (wouldn’t be the first time for me).
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Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 2453630)
It was obviously the mother’s first-time visit. She knew what was going on there (hence her remark about her former employer), but she had never heard the sounds before or saw the smoke & ash.
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Re: The Zone of Interest (2023)
Where is the DVD/BR of this?
It should have come out months ago. |
Though I wrote this awhile ago, I figured I'd share my more mixed take on the film:
https://letterboxd.com/popcornreview...e-of-interest/ |
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Re: The Zone of Interest (2023)
Still wondering why this isn't available on physical media. It was due out in March.
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A quick look on Google says that it's out in June.
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