just came back from this. man, this world can benefit from more sensitive macho movies. guy movies without the meatheadness. the acting was great, the rhythm was great, the music was only okay though. the movie felt a little detached, with some intense charisma coming from romain duris. kid was suck a shmuck in l'auberge espagnol but in this film he's totally cool. word.
anyone else seen this one yet? I haven't seen the original "Fingers" by James Toback, is it any good?
the original is terrible - i was suprised upon first viewing - with the cult status it has, i though it would've been much better - in essence, the problem is with the direction - James Tovak is just not a terribly dynamic director ( and i think his filmography backs my opinion up) - i think the idea is somewhat intriguing and with the young keitel it very well could (and should) have been much stronger. Not a fan.
Yeah, I saw this.
I thought it was okay, nothing special.
I saw The Beat My Heart Skipped a few weeks ago and very nearly loved it. Romain Dupris is simply amazing.
So I watched Fingers last night, and it's got some intriguing stuff going on in it - particularly in Keitel's performance - and I found the first half really quite good (except for the horrible character of the father, who is simply an embarassment), and then it sort of falls apart when Jim Brown shows up. It's quite different from the remake - I wouldn't let a disinclination towards this defer you from the new version, which I think is excellent.
Watching Fingers, and listening to some of the commentary track, further cemented my suspicion that Toback is a bit of a prick.
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So, the consensus is that this is okay, but by no means essential viewing?
Cos I loved Fingers, and in the poster they make the lead guy look so much like Delon in his heyday, it really makes me wanna check it out...
I dunno about essential viewing, but I think it's one of the better movies from this year. the more I think about it, the more I liked it, too. such is the power of them french.
I'd recommend this film to anyone. It's funny, tragic and the best thing for me - completely natural. Nothing seemed force, everything unfolded beautifully.
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I think it's a really great film.
Romain Duris' performance is fantastic, so much going on there.
I just really liked how the film is filled with so much energy but like I said most of it stems from the main man.
It's a good 'gangster' film in that it's not random geezers diving around shooting each other, messin' with the po-lice, snorting endless lines of coke etc etc. The main characters involved with getting rid of sitters from various properties rather than a mob hitman for example, which is refreshing. Another thing that struck me was the film's violence, which is affecting, realistic and serves the story and character.
I'm interested in checking out some other movies by the director Jacques Audiard, anyone a fan of his other work? I know "Read My Lips" with Vincent Cassel is pretty well thought of...
I'm curious about what those who liked The Beat That My Heart Skipped liked about it in particular. I did appreciate that it wasn't an umpteenth Scorsese knockoff, but it bored the hell out of me. The protagonist was so bland and one-dimensional that if it hadn't been for the charisma of Duris, my eyelids would have snapped shut inside of twenty minutes. He's about the only thing about the film that really worked. Upon initial viewing, I felt it was just a mediocre variation on the genre picture, but after a few months of reflection, my estimation of it has plummeted.