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Dir. Stanislav Stanojevic
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This slow-paced, B&W French film from 1973 develops slowly and is not really helped along by director Stanislav Stanojevics long, single angle shots. An artistic endeavor it is, stuffed full of metaphors and symbols that represent Stanojevic’s take on love and our very flawed society. The film begins on a cruise ship. “Le Guide” (Sami Frey) flirts heavily with his interpreter (Delphine Seyrig) as they cruise along the Mediterranean. The stories are introduced when the quiet and introspective interpreter asks the guide to tell her a beautiful story. Not much dialogue to speak of, the film takes some effort to comprehend underneath all the symbols, plot shifts and strange imagery Stanojevich employs to bespeak his art. To his credit, the film is carefully directed and crafted. It is not the setting of the film itself, nor the dialogue that comes across as entirely dated, but, perhaps, the entire conceit of the film itself. For all its artistic posturing (and, one imagines, Godard-emulation), the film is dreadfully lifeless and inert. There might be those who are touched to their core at the film's copious use of sunglasses, seagulls and belts of grenades -- and hackneyed metaphysics -- but this critic is certainly not one of them.
The extras consist of a long but somewhat interesting interview with the director Stanislav Stanojevic, who talks about his struggles with making a film.
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