[YMS] Alright guys, there's a bunch of movies that I saw at Vancouver Film Fest that I didn't mention on this channel,
so I'm just gonna get through them as quickly as possible.
First is "The Boy and the World". It's a stylistic animated movie with no real plot.
I watched the trailer and thought: "Hmm, this might be at least visually entertaining.",
but it got stale real fast. For what it was, I feel like it probably should have just been a short film.
The soundtrack got really repetitive and really annoying.
Listen to this clip right here and tell me if you could handle hearing it twenty times in the same movie.
[ ♪ soundtrack ♪ ]
I'm not giving this film a rating out of ten, because I left the theater before it was over.
It's not the worst movie I've seen all year, but being at a Film Fest,
there was another movie that I wanted to get a good spot in line for.
And that movie was "Clouds Of Sils Maria",
which would be the worst movie I've seen all year, if I hadn't seen Kevin Smith's "Tusk".
So you might be wondering: "Why the fuck did Adam see a movie with Kristen Stewart in it?"
Well, it was official competition at Cannes Film Festival, so that's a start,
the director has previously made films that are part of the Criterion Collection,
but the main reason I saw this movie is because in the trailer, I saw Juliette Binoche speaking English.
She's quite a great actor, and she's been in quite a few great films,
but I've only ever seen her speaking French, so it got me a little curious.
Big mistake! Juliette Binoche was one of few good parts of this movie.
Unfortunately however, Kristen Stewart was an extremely prominent role in the film.
I went into it with an open mind, thinking: "Hmm, she's been in some bad shit, but maybe she'll do a good job in this one."
Nope. I did not believe a single word she was saying.
There was no point that I was able to believe her performance whatsoever.
Juliette Binoche plays an actor in this movie,
so there's scenes where she's reading through her lines for a play that she'll be performing in,
and Kristen Stewart reads through the lines of the other characters.
So there are points where Juliette Binoche is crying and screaming her heart out,
only to be met by Kristen Stewart's response as:
"buwezwemehumwhneneumn"
Stop mumbling every single scene!
It wasn't even done for the sake of comedy, there was zero self-awareness to it.
And those scenes where they're rehearsing lines for that play take up half the fucking movie,
so half the movie we're not learning anything about the characters that we're watching.
We're just seeing them run through lines of a play that we're never going to see in the movie.
Chloë is also in the movie. She's not in the movie all that much, but she's a fairly important character.
She also plays an actor, but the actor she's playing is supposed to be a braddy mix between Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus.
So there's scenes where Juliette Binoche is researching this actor that she's going to be working with.
She's watching interviews of Chloë's character on a talkshow,
and holy shit, those laugh tracks and crowd responses that they edit in in post production were horrible!
The queues to which the audience would respond to what's being said on stage were so unnatural.
Like, people would react to things before they happened.
Part of me thought: "Well, maybe it's not so much that the movie is doing a horrible job at it,
but that they're to imply that the talkshow did...?"
But then later Chloë's character is acting in a supposed big budget Hollywood superhero movie.
They show a clip from this movie within a movie to sort of parody the genre,
and holy fuck shit, it was so embarassing!
They just painted the room white and then dyed the characters' hairs funny colors.
What we're being shown on screen is what some shitty film student with 500 dollars would come up with.
And yet, Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche's characters go to see this movie in theaters,
and it's played off completely seriously, as though this would be a generally well-received movie in theaters with 3D glasses.
It's never played off as though they're watching the worst movie of all time,
it's like the director of this movie has no grasp on reality whatsoever.
There's other scenes in the movie, where they're talking shit about action superhero movies like:
"Oh, that's such an inferior genre!"
Well, if it's inferior and you suck at it, then what does that make you?
I have my own gripes with the majority of big budget superhero movies,
but you're seriously pretending as though your pretentious piece of shit movie isn't somehow a million times worse?
What are you criticizing about that genre that can't be applied to your own film?
Your plot is contrived and nonsensical, the majority of acting in the movie fucking sucks,
and you're nowhere near skilled enough to imitate the genre that you say is bullshit.
You have basically made a movie where you're saying that you are worse than bullshit.
There's a part of the movie where Julliette Binoche is looking out at the clouds.
After twenty seconds of staring, she turns around to see Kristen Stewart has disappeared,
but based on the landscape for that to be possible, Kristen Stewart would have had to have been like ten times faster than Usain Bolt.
Like, you directed this scene, and you couldn't figure out that what you showed is impossible?
When big budget Hollywood superhero movies make that kind of continuity mistake,
it's usually because there's so many people working on it and so much going on that people lose track.
When you're a small Indie film that doesn't have a giant crew, and there are only two fucking people in the entire scene,
you have no fucking excuse to make an amateur mistake like that!
There is so little going on in the scene that you'd have to be a fucking moron not to notice that shit as you're filming it.
And last but not least, the Ipad man.
There's a character that Juliette Binoche only talks to through Skype on her Ipad,
and somehow he was the worst actor in the whole movie.
Was he even an actor? What the fuck happened here?
I'm giving this one a three out of ten!
Next up, I saw "Leviathan", by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Not sure if I'm pronouncing that right. I understand I have at least a few Russian subscribers, so eh.... let me know.
Anyway, this is the same director as the film "Elena", which was pretty high up my 2012 list.
I haven't seen his other two films yet, but I gotta say, I'm more excited than ever.
The cinematography is the second best I've seen all Film Fest,
with the first being from a movie that I have yet to mention.
I know sometimes people get upset when I don't explain the plot very much,
but I feel as though movies are experienced better when you don't have anything spoiled.
When you watch the movie with a blank slate, you're learning and experiencing
the sequence of events in the exact same order that the director intented.
I don't care how many of you think a review of the movie is the same as describing the plot of a movie,
and I don't care how many other reviewers on Youtube do exactly that.
All you need to know going into this movie is that the cinematography is amazing,
the characters are extremely unique and well-written, and all performed very well,
and I can't think of a single actor or character that was a weak point within the film.
Similarly to his film "Elena", there were extra details about the characters that could be seen in picture frames in their house.
It leaves you to interpret things yourself, but to me, I was able to discover
a whole new meaning towards the relationship of two of the characters.
If there's one complaint I have about this film that I don't often make about any film,
it's that I wish there was a bit more music. The score was fantastic, but it was so incredibly scarce.
"Elena" also used its score sparingly, but I feel as though it hit the perfect amount,
whereas in this one, it felt a little bit empty.
At this point, I can't decide if I like it better than "Elena" or not,
but I'm sure I'll have a better idea on my second watch and I can't wait to see it again.
This guy is one of my favorite directors at this point,
and I'll definitely keeping my eyes out for his next film.
I would highly recommend this, and it goes without saying that this is one of my favorites from the festival,
and I'm this an eight out of ten for now, possibly a nine on my second watch, who knows, I don't know yet.
It was pretty fucking good, you should see it!
[Subtitles by Abel Boeschoten]