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Liked this but didn't love it. I liked enough about it that i recognize Vigo's death at 24 as a blow to cinema; even though i wasn't in love with this i think it was a very good first effort and that there was possibly great stuff to come from him. I understand alot of the praise for this comes from its influence on later cinema particularly the French New Wave. That's a movement i haven't explored that much yet so i'm looking forward to returning when the influences are more apparent to me. The film definitely got better as it went on, Pere and Juliette's bonding scene where he was showing off his tattoo's and stuff was incredibly endearing. Beforehand i kind of expected Pere to play some sort of villain role, was definitely surprised when Jean turned out to be the bad guy and also that his over the topness didn't bother me he may have been my favourite charactr actually. My favourite scene was probably in the bar with the magician , it was so fast moving with great music and that guy was really talented; was like a Chaplin scene or something. It also cemented how much of a humourless, jealous a-hole Jean was, that was the first time i truly felt Juliette's regret coming through. It was implied in the scene he hit her earlier but her smiling and having fun with that guy while also feeling nervous about letting this on because of Jean was what really did it. Thing is that guy was definitely overstepping his bounds so Jean's reaction was somewhat justified it was more how angry, controlling and devoid of pleasure he came across except when he got Juliette alone to try and manipulate her back onto his side, was pretty creepy. That was a problem for me i never really believed in their relationship so despite finding a fair amount of the last twenty minutes beautiful the music and underwater scene in particular, i was never rooting for them which hurt my enjoyment. Anyway good film.

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