I'm giving this one a bonus half-star for a limited time only, so if you want to see it while I still recommend it, you better hurry!
I'm a Park Chan Wook fan. I loved the Handmaiden when I saw it in the cinema and Oldboy is one of my top 5 films of all time, so I was probably setting myself up to be let down by this and I wasn't disappointed.
Park Chan Wook's directing here is certainly inventive (he won Best Director for Decision to Leave at Cannes this year) but sometimes it comes across as unnecessarily flashy, as though it's trying to blind us with his prowess so we don't see the plot is basically a 1980's thriller.
But the directing does paint a beautiful picture, the story line hooked me at the end and the film stayed with me for days, so while it may not be as impressive as some of his previous work, Decision to Leave earns a 'recommend', at least for now.
Like underwear up your butt crack: creepy, annoying, and doesn't realize how bad it stinks.
Look, I don't like Don Juan in general, and especially how people try to tell you the movies aren't about misogyny but about how sad Don Juan is that every woman he meets wants to hump him like they're dogs and he's a leg.
Hey, I know sadder people with better reasons.
But my low ranking isn't a result of my general distaste for DJ. No, this specific film is objectively bad.
In addition to the misogyny (he's a voyeur who spies on the object of his heart's affection and tells her he'll return her lost scarf only if she sleeps with him) there's the poor acting (only Virginie Efira comes out of this looking decent), and they made it a sort of odd (as in 'smelling', not 'quirky' ) musical?
By the end of the film you'll wonder why it was made and who it was made for because it certainly wasn't for you.
Like cheese sushi: it's interesting but not as fresh as the real thing.
I went into Coupez! / Final Cut blind but almost immediately recognized that it was a remake of the excellent One Cut of the Dead. Sadly, that film was so original and well-made that a remake is superfluous and doomed to comparisons.
I laughed out loud a couple of times in The Final Cut, but my nostalgia for the original sushi meant the cheese left a bad taste in my mouth.
Definitely, as others have said, the less you know going in the better it becomes as the film & story unveils through the running time.
GREAT FILM!
I had seen the trailer but it didnt catch my attention. They had a screening at a film festival I was volunteering at, when it finished you could hear the clapping in the whole building and everyone kept saying how great it was. The next day I went to see it and it was my highlight of the whole festival!
TL:DR dont watch the trailer, just watch it.
You're welcome..
Saw as an opener to another film in the theatre. You know its good when its only 4 minutes and it brings all the feels. Plus, I've never seen a film, animated or otherwise, depict queer youths in love. Queer Youth Love! Thank you.
this was probably the cutest thing i've ever seen
