Resnais’ tonally-jarring ‘musical-drama’ that intercuts across three timelines feels too artificially-constructed and incoherent to make any meaningful sense.
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Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
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Rumble Fish (1983)
A feverish attempt at exploring the nature of wasted youth with strong visual and aural stylings that can’t quite hide its meandering narrative.
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Ballad of Narayama, The (1983)
An uncompromising adaptation of a beloved tale where Imamura manages to find moments of poetry amid the brutality, carnal desires and existential torment.
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Godard’s Venice Golden Lion winner doesn’t quite work narratively, but its fragmentary melding of music, sound design and images is an interesting experiment.
Boys from Fengkuei, The (1983)
Continue reading →Hou Hsao-Hsien’s coming-of-age drama shows the hard-hitting reality of surviving in 1980s Taiwan, yet resonates as an evocation of a time passed.
