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Mar. 13th, 2007 03:01 pm
From foreign lands
So, as I already mentioned, we actually got through two films on our NetFlix queue last weekend: Majid Majidi's بچه های آسمان ("Children of Heaven") and Ittisoontorn Vichailak's โหมโรง ("The Overture").
I'm going to paraphrase this badly, but in his review of 麥兜菠蘿油王子 ("McDull, Prince de la Bun"),![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
princeofcairo said something about the state of alienation that results from watching another culture's media products for children. That sums up the reaction I had to "Children of Heaven". (As an aside, I looked up the Chicago Reader capsule review to see what praise Rosenbaum had gushed over it and found, to my surprise, that they'd handed this one over to Lisa Alspector, who characterises it as "lightly magical realist". This is why Alspector shouldn't be allowed to review movies: It's so "lightly magical realist" it's, um, actually straight up neo-realism.) It's a slight film that succeeds as a slice-of-life pic, but the anticlimactic ending left me cold.
( Spoilerrific )
I'm going to paraphrase this badly, but in his review of 麥兜菠蘿油王子 ("McDull, Prince de la Bun"),
princeofcairo said something about the state of alienation that results from watching another culture's media products for children. That sums up the reaction I had to "Children of Heaven". (As an aside, I looked up the Chicago Reader capsule review to see what praise Rosenbaum had gushed over it and found, to my surprise, that they'd handed this one over to Lisa Alspector, who characterises it as "lightly magical realist". This is why Alspector shouldn't be allowed to review movies: It's so "lightly magical realist" it's, um, actually straight up neo-realism.) It's a slight film that succeeds as a slice-of-life pic, but the anticlimactic ending left me cold.( Spoilerrific )