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User Comments for: Au Hasard Balthazar

soonertbone says...
one year ago
Revoke my film nerd credentials if you want, but I think I hated this movie. Bresson’s style is ascetic to a fault—spare and punishing to no effect. Dialogue that doesn’t follow (did I have bad subtitles?) from one sentence to the next, elliptical editing that obscures key details, and acting techniques that border on zombie-like. The effect is like reading a great novel in which everything but verbs has been redacted—you get the gist of something happening, but you’re left too confused to feel anything. I can understand using the medium in new ways to create a tonal poem, but doing so here failed to produce much of an emotional response on my part.
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