Tuesday, June 7, 2011

C'est arrivé près de chez vous (Man Bites Dog)

Award winning, highly acclaimed, much talked about, and I can see why.

If you feel like seeing a movie with some interesting poems, discussions on architecture, cinema and relocation of communities for low income housing projects then this film is for you, a biting politico-socio satire.  HOWEVER, there is another side to this fly on the wall mockumentary, the person we are observing happens to be a serial killer.

This film is about 20 years old, but shot in B&W entirely hand held camera work.  The photography is very good, as is the editing, and acting.  Technically this is a fantastic film. The obsidian black humor is at times painful to endure, everytime we have respite and humor it is tightly coupled with brutality.

How did I stay the distance?  Since I've been contemplating whether I should watch this film since it was new, I decided I had to tough it out.  Definitely K rated, not for the feint of heart.

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