I wanna blind buy this, I don't have the money or anything but I still want to, I think it looks really cool. Tell me what you think of it or if you think it's a good blind buy. I love Truffaut, Godard, and De Sica and I'm getting into Herzog as well so foreign stuff doesn't scare me. I heard something about there being absolutely no music in this film though and that does scare me, I heard Bresson stripped it of any music whatsoever, is this true? Cause I'll definitely rent it if that's the case, music is like the only essential element of a film.
Anyway, tell me what you think.
Quote from: ebeamanI wanna blind buy this, I don't have the money or anything but I still want to, I think it looks really cool. Tell me what you think of it or if you think it's a good blind buy. I love Truffaut, Godard, and De Sica and I'm getting into Herzog as well so foreign stuff doesn't scare me. I heard something about there being absolutely no music in this film though and that does scare me, I heard Bresson stripped it of any music whatsoever, is this true? Cause I'll definitely rent it if that's the case, music is like the only essential element of a film.
Anyway, tell me what you think.
I love this movie, but it is very ascetic. Don't expect it to get your heart rate up or grab you by the lapels, or anything. What it gives is a sense of calm and contemplation and stillness. You need to be in the right mood to watch a Bresson film, and that mood is really similar to a Dreyer mood or a Tarkovsky mood, maybe a Bergman mood, definitely NOT a PTA or QT mood. Think of the sense of silence and space in a Bergman film; that's close to what a Bresson film feels like, and where the very spare use of music comes in. I think the use of music depends on what the filmmaker is going for; I can think of at LEAST as many instances of too much/too crappy music bringing a film down than the opposite.
Anyway,
Country Priest is probably the most accessible of Bresson's really "Bressonian" films, of which it's the first.
Quote from: ebeamanI wanna blind buy this, I don't have the money or anything but I still want to,
that hasn't stopped u before.
bresson is like kubrick without the music, actors, money, fame, and _|_. he did do sum ekzellent things with sound tho. his films are really the meditative sort. not really "exciting".
Hmmm, you know I think I am going to rent this, thanks for the info you two. I'm not very familiar at all with Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Dreyer's work so I think I wanna wait on this one. I'm still interested in it, and Dreyer and Bergman too, I just don't want to take any big chances. Thanks for giving me a reason to go against my initial choice, maybe I'll have just enough money for the rest of Feb 3rd now, lol.
Buy it. It's fucking class all the way.
Just finished watching it. "Meditative" is the right word. This is a film you have to pay a little extra attention to while watching, though.