Peur[s] Du Noir
Peur[s] Du Noir
For jonbly, the insect sequence was good, and the dark house sequence at the end was really good (thin plot, but really well realised art). The rest, though... didn't really hit the button.
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What the hell?
Okay it seemed like a good idea having an animation in the line up, gives us some good variety, and from the trailer on youtube it looked dark and sinister, and I thought it was going to be good....well I was spectacularly wrong! This was just a huge pile of non-sensicle arty-farty tedious pretentious bollcoks!
Some guy giving birth to servant bugs, followed by flashing lines with a woman telling us how shes "scared to eat a snake in gravy", then some anime-style japanese drivel, a load of dogs barking randomly and some guy taking a brick out of his house. ummmm, yeah.
Worst of the weekend
1/10
Okay it seemed like a good idea having an animation in the line up, gives us some good variety, and from the trailer on youtube it looked dark and sinister, and I thought it was going to be good....well I was spectacularly wrong! This was just a huge pile of non-sensicle arty-farty tedious pretentious bollcoks!
Some guy giving birth to servant bugs, followed by flashing lines with a woman telling us how shes "scared to eat a snake in gravy", then some anime-style japanese drivel, a load of dogs barking randomly and some guy taking a brick out of his house. ummmm, yeah.
Worst of the weekend
1/10
I liked this more than disliked it.
But if it'd been several shorts it might have worked better.
Charles Burns' insect tale was great. He builds that paranoia in his stories very well, often revealing the truth to be worse than paranoia right at the end.
The man with dogs thing was stylistically nice but went on to an obvious conclusion after way too long.
The japanese ghosts one was brilliant. But then they invented this sort of horror and the french are just copying them !
Beat poetry abstractions? J'ai ennui, pas de peur.
Have I missed one ?
Oh yes, that very atmospheric house in the dark one, that was good but overstayed its welcome like a man breaking into an abandoned house (apt simile).
But if it'd been several shorts it might have worked better.
Charles Burns' insect tale was great. He builds that paranoia in his stories very well, often revealing the truth to be worse than paranoia right at the end.
The man with dogs thing was stylistically nice but went on to an obvious conclusion after way too long.
The japanese ghosts one was brilliant. But then they invented this sort of horror and the french are just copying them !
Beat poetry abstractions? J'ai ennui, pas de peur.
Have I missed one ?
Oh yes, that very atmospheric house in the dark one, that was good but overstayed its welcome like a man breaking into an abandoned house (apt simile).
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I have to admit I loved this - in an age where everything is made with cookier cutter precision here was a unique compendum: artists with styles their own, with touches unique to each one, had created a beautiful (perhaps uneven) film.
Although all the stories were not as strong as each other, each one had style to spare: form, symmetry, shapes, lines - all presented in a way that improved the moving image - I was especially fond of the connecting story with its' very French , very middle class voice going through a list of fears as ironic as the moving, dissolving shapes on the screen.
An absolute favourite.
Sincerely yours
Voor
Although all the stories were not as strong as each other, each one had style to spare: form, symmetry, shapes, lines - all presented in a way that improved the moving image - I was especially fond of the connecting story with its' very French , very middle class voice going through a list of fears as ironic as the moving, dissolving shapes on the screen.
An absolute favourite.
Sincerely yours
Voor
Seemed a bit arty for artiness sake at times, and there were times where I liked the story but not the animation (the insect story) or the style but not the story (the final one that just went on too long)...
Oh and that *&^%ing goose...
Oh and that *&^%ing goose...
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my only complaint with this film would be black and whiote animation plus white subtitles ='s occassionally really freakin hard to read. It always irks me when it happens in films.. the worst being the tears of the black tiger where the subtitles disappear for a good 5 minutes during a beach scene.
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