A Separation: So many different and potent themes are handled and examined in this film without ever ever making the plot feel heavy or allegorised, and that is a huge credit to the film and to Farhadi and most of all to the impeccable acting on display here as all these flawed and very human characters are beautifully brought to life, and just the right amount of ambiguity and open-endedness is employed to keep us on the edge.
Stranger Than Paradise: Just as I said of Wes Anderson in the past, Jim Jarmusch is another unique American director who creates his own world and his own vision of America in each film, but of course the cinematic worlds of these 2 directors are universes apart... Jarmusch is a real minimalist, and the deadpan dry humour may not be to everyone's taste but you might appreciate them more if you watch his films as modern fairytales/parables happening in a kind of abstract Jarmuschian (only word that can be used) version of America (think of the 3 locations here, NYC, Ohio, Florida, none of them in the film are like those real places as we know them), and this one was very much like that.
A Separation:
ReplyDeleteSo many different and potent themes are handled and examined in this film without ever ever making the plot feel heavy or allegorised, and that is a huge credit to the film and to Farhadi and most of all to the impeccable acting on display here as all these flawed and very human characters are beautifully brought to life, and just the right amount of ambiguity and open-endedness is employed to keep us on the edge.
Stranger Than Paradise:
Just as I said of Wes Anderson in the past, Jim Jarmusch is another unique American director who creates his own world and his own vision of America in each film, but of course the cinematic worlds of these 2 directors are universes apart... Jarmusch is a real minimalist, and the deadpan dry humour may not be to everyone's taste but you might appreciate them more if you watch his films as modern fairytales/parables happening in a kind of abstract Jarmuschian (only word that can be used) version of America (think of the 3 locations here, NYC, Ohio, Florida, none of them in the film are like those real places as we know them), and this one was very much like that.