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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Sep 19 2007, 07:33 PM
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,188 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	I saw WEEKEND Sunday and previews were shown for CONTEMPT and PIERROT plus I've read about these films on the Belcourt website. I know Fritz Lang plays himself in CONTEMPT along with Brigette Bardot and Jack Palance, not playing themselves of course. It still appears to be a good bet that I'll see these last 2 films at the theater. WEEKEND was filled with humor, wild visuals and political and social commentaries. Any dialog I write can't be taken verbatim. The humor could be short as in the main male character asking a man, "Are you in the movie or are you real?" to which the man replies he is in the movie and the lead is done with him. The scene with the long line of vehicles is amazing and funny with people throwing a ball from one car to another and others sitting between vehicles on the road while playing chess. Social commentary has a man driving his tractor into a sportscar killing the car's young male driver. A young woman who is the daughter of the tractor operator and the girlfriend of the dead man asks her father how could he kill her boyfriend because he was so well to do and better than the working class. This film is filled with noise, literally. From early on when a woman describes a sexcapade with her female friend and the friend's husband there is a noise that gets so loud you can't hear what she is saying. The noise goes from loud to soft and I don't know how someone watching the film without subtitles could hear alot of the dialog. There is constant horn blowing during the long car line scene as well as a drummer playing the drums during a 10 minute or so span. I will see this film again because I feel I missed alot of it and I enjoyed it.
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