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The McGregor's debut film is a missed chance to take advantage of Philip Roth's story, originally a good plot containing a lot of opportunities to create a personal interpretation of a disappointed American dream.
Plot is quite poor and trivial.
It appears to be rather a style exercise focused on aesthetics.
The film is shot in a very stunning way, giving the impression to live a pictorial experience that leads to inner ancestral fears or metaphors. The former “Innocence” and the latter “Evolution” pose the same question according different points of view, in each situation the answer evolves into...
“Last Year at Marienbad” is a very difficult film to approach since the first shots.
In a hypnotic way, viewer is leaded through a path of memories and flashbacks, alternating truth and imagination in an architecture of ambiguity and uncertainty.
The recurring element is the park...
Clearly inspired by Herzog’s works, “El abrazo” is an interesting visual experience and a metaphore of a possible "bridge" between different cultures so far each other, even the message risks to be too poor and trivial.
The quite impressive ending reminds the Kubrickian trip sequence.
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