Synopsis: Something cataclysmic happens and from scene one to scene last, a French family struggles to survive.
I understand that this was supposed to be a bleak movie and all. But I'm supposed to be able to see what's going on on the screen, or it's going to be hard to care. There are parts of this film where all one can see is...nothing. Literally. I'm talking subtitles over a black field. Don't worry about dozing off, though, because you're never more than a few seconds from Isabelle Huppert's super-annoying voice, made all the more so by the fact that she's speaking French. Often loudly.
Add to all this the fact that the director goes out of his way to make sure that we "Americains stupides" are faced with as many grim realities (like burning horses or dead, maggoty sheep) as possible, and you've got yourself a heck of a fun time.
Anyway, this movie is technically lacking, cinematically lacking, and boring. Not typical of French film at all. Terrible.
I understand that this was supposed to be a bleak movie and all. But I'm supposed to be able to see what's going on on the screen, or it's going to be hard to care. There are parts of this film where all one can see is...nothing. Literally. I'm talking subtitles over a black field. Don't worry about dozing off, though, because you're never more than a few seconds from Isabelle Huppert's super-annoying voice, made all the more so by the fact that she's speaking French. Often loudly.
Add to all this the fact that the director goes out of his way to make sure that we "Americains stupides" are faced with as many grim realities (like burning horses or dead, maggoty sheep) as possible, and you've got yourself a heck of a fun time.
Anyway, this movie is technically lacking, cinematically lacking, and boring. Not typical of French film at all. Terrible.