I just renewed my Quietus subscription and this film reminded me why.
90 minutes of pure misanthropy, but no cynicism directed at music itself.
Lots of nice psychedelic and vibes based soundtracking and a really good drop of Scott Walker's On Your Own Again. 'Wasn't It A Good Year?'
The doc seems to resent its own existence which I appreciate. Its not un-beautiful. Has a few of the 'vibes' documentary cliches like car window footage set to soundcheck jams but…
There's so much to like here, so much playfulness in the cinematography and some truly fukn next level blocking. So much interesting stuff done with light and shadow and the practical effects are peak. Sexy cast too.
Went over to B's to watch The Idiots, neither my 20 years of internet sleuthing nor her organic Argentinian piracy skills could source a version larger than 720P, even tho its a Dogme 95 movie and shot on a potato I didn't wanna suffer the gammy audio compression.
She had Photon from an external DVD drive rip. I hadn't heard of it but we were talking about Na Srebrnym Globie and figured something grim and Polish would be a nice…
Seems to miss the central premise of the source material, its flaws are fractal in shape. Del Toro has tried to depict the humanity of the creature, the Hubris of Victor Frankenstein, the foibles of single track vision. (All shi you can get by just... reading the book...) By attacking the problem with hubris and near unlimited resources. The creature is a misunderstood soul adrift in the world, Frankenstein the film is a bloated mess.
Its visually stunning yeah, sure…
