Pacino86845 wrote:Flumm wrote:Les Invasions barbares (2003) <((
Have you seen
Le Declin de L'Empire Americain?
I have not!
Untill you deigned it, Pacino, it had not come to my attention that it existed.
It perhaps explains a little the feeling I got from the film, I think.
I felt at times that when the ensemble was assembled, that the acting became a little to... "actorly" for my taste. The rythms and general flow of the conversation and interactions were too comfortable and unnatural. Dare I say it, a llittle smug even. I really wasn't convinced at all by their relationships. Which, in my head now looking back, could somewhat be in tune with the idea that they were, the actors that is, revisiting this story a couple of decades down the line and were enjoying the experience...
Overall though, I thought some of the work by Rémy Girard was a step up from the rest of the cast and was a little more layered and empathetic, I was more involved in him as an actor, beyond him just being the lead character.
And here and there, with the atmospheric musical cues conjured by Arcand touched on something greater at times, to my mind at least, than the actors were able to summon by themselves... but overall it didn't really gell for me.
I wanted to give it a pass to the above catorgory for the subject involved, the story that was being told, but I couldn't really do it in good faith when I really wasn't led to believe in any of the supporting characters or relationships, you know?
I'm curious enough to see Le Déclin de L'Empire Américain at this point and complete the experience of watching both halves of the story, however. I would have preffered to watch them in order, I guess, but I'm still intrigued enough by the hand of Arcand at least, if nothing else...