If you welcome something definitely different, please seek this out. Stop reading this review and all others, and set aside an evening for the full DVD (1 + 2.5 and definitely the supplements).
Orson Welles' had his mirror scene in "Lady From Shanghai" William Greaves sends cameras after cameras and as the actors rehearse and rehearse the cameras drift off. The story disappears, the film folds in upon itself and out upon the film-making moment.
A homeless drunk wander in to deliver a soliloquy, the cameras not only allow it, the director more than welcomes it.
Sure it's like sailing on a raging ocean without a rudder. Fiction has had untrustworthy narrators for a long time, but a film with an untrustworthy director....
Right from the beginning there's something about the Miles Davis riffing, it's more a jam than a song, and yet it drives you forward. There's something about that music and this film, the cast/crew it just vibrates with late 60's energy.
Just as some music requires you to dump a linear set of expectations, here you have to be willing to watch three or more levels of improvisation before/behind/off and after the camera. (Editing this must have been a trip!)
Orson Welles' had his mirror scene in "Lady From Shanghai" William Greaves sends cameras after cameras and as the actors rehearse and rehearse the cameras drift off. The story disappears, the film folds in upon itself and out upon the film-making moment.
A homeless drunk wander in to deliver a soliloquy, the cameras not only allow it, the director more than welcomes it.
Sure it's like sailing on a raging ocean without a rudder. Fiction has had untrustworthy narrators for a long time, but a film with an untrustworthy director....
Right from the beginning there's something about the Miles Davis riffing, it's more a jam than a song, and yet it drives you forward. There's something about that music and this film, the cast/crew it just vibrates with late 60's energy.
Just as some music requires you to dump a linear set of expectations, here you have to be willing to watch three or more levels of improvisation before/behind/off and after the camera. (Editing this must have been a trip!)