Recenziók (1)
Jon Jost is the most independent American independent filmmaker who shoots full-length (do not take normatively) fictional films. This film was supposed to be shot in 5 days with a budget of $8,000. Excellent, and not only in this context. Jost opens his film (about the relationship between a lonely working woman and a problematic retired marine) almost melodramatically, almost sentimentally "Lelouch-esque," gradually interspersing the film with sequences of pure and simple cinematography of long emotional shots and a poetic camera game, and then adds a few explicitly improvised scenes in the style of "everyday chatter," while the film, still held within a dramatic arc, continues to flow, leading to a very unpleasant awakening from the previous dream. All of this is imbued with Jost's own complex country music, which always adapts to the current state of the plot. The film also includes a few formal pirouettes with editing and camera work, and it is therefore both an independent and surprising work and constructed by a more or less conventional narrative. Thus, it should, I dare say, have the potential like Jost's other films (of which I've only seen two), the potential to appeal to a wider audience. Unfortunately, this is not the case, because Jost's films are hard to come by and there are no subtitles for them.
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