Showing posts with label Belgian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belgian. Show all posts

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.