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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:04 pm |
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Not at all a typical Wim Wenders film. Of course Wenders famously
lost the final cut to Coppola's studio, so he didn't have full
control.
The film is slick and smooth, if a bit too self-conciously noirish;
I suppose the occasional awkward gumshoe dialog and the odd casting
(the lead actor looks much older than the supposed Dashiel Hammett
at age 35) are the only giveaway of this having a European at the
helm. The rhythm of the film is so fast and unusual for Wenders
-- it is supersonic compared to _The Shape of Things_ or _An American
Friend_. Perhaps the best comparison is actually _Farawary, so Close_
and _Until the End of the World_, which share a common levity.
The script is more than a bit racist even by the standard of the 80s.
It is meant to be set much earlier in the century but I don't know
that it can't do a bit better. (How about making the cab driven
a Chinese in this film set in China town?) The camera work and
angles are excellent -- particular the ones shot through glass
floorings
in the San Francisco library. I suppose I'm glad I saw it rather than
not -- it was not easy to find. |
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