This was not the live-action Lumiere-prequel I thought it would be.
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2018
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I've started to enjoy these three- and four-hour films more and more recently, and a big reason why is that they give me time and space to just sit and think. An Elephant Sitting Still does the same, following four characters throughout their day in a crumbling city in today's China, but without giving you something real nice to think about. It's not only the city these characters populate that crumbles, it's their lives, as everyone walks around caring only…
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2018
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I've started to enjoy these three- and four-hour films more and more recently, and a big reason why is that they give me time and space to just sit and think. An Elephant Sitting Still does the same, following four characters throughout their day in a crumbling city in today's China, but without giving you something real nice to think about. It's not only the city these characters populate that crumbles, it's their lives, as everyone walks around caring only…
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1996
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Thrilling and visually sumptuous spy blockbuster, leaning into the cloak and dagger stuff harder than the later ones. Still has some fantastic stunts, the Famous heist of course, but also the train stuff at the end holy shit I'd forgotten how Spectacular that is. Sadly it has some dated visual trickery that makes latter stunt-spectacles in what this series evolved into feel even more thrilling, and which this loses points for.
Also it kinda never gets more thrilling or gorgeous…
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1996
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Thrilling and visually sumptuous spy blockbuster, leaning into the cloak and dagger stuff harder than the later ones. Still has some fantastic stunts, the Famous heist of course, but also the train stuff at the end holy shit I'd forgotten how Spectacular that is. Sadly it has some dated visual trickery that makes latter stunt-spectacles in what this series evolved into feel even more thrilling, and which this loses points for.
Also it kinda never gets more thrilling or gorgeous…
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2011
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About 30 minutes into this, I broke. Completely. And pretty much stayed in that state for the rest of the film.
A quiet, intense, honest, bitter and utterly heartbreaking look at love. Possibly the best movie I've seen in a long, long time. There are so many great things about it, so much that I loved. So many clever uses, fantastic performances, fantastic scenes.... I can't praise this movie enough. It's fantastic that even in our times, there are people capable of telling stories about love that actually feel fresh.
I loved it.
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2011
Liked 6
About 30 minutes into this, I broke. Completely. And pretty much stayed in that state for the rest of the film.
A quiet, intense, honest, bitter and utterly heartbreaking look at love. Possibly the best movie I've seen in a long, long time. There are so many great things about it, so much that I loved. So many clever uses, fantastic performances, fantastic scenes.... I can't praise this movie enough. It's fantastic that even in our times, there are people capable of telling stories about love that actually feel fresh.
I loved it.
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