Review of The Red Tent

The Red Tent (1969)
7/10
This more recent style of movies ...
5 January 2023
... will never touch me, in this lifetime.

Maybe I'm too old to understand why movies have to drag on, showing blood, fight, despair, ... Titanic, this one, they all bug me for the much too descriptive cinematography. I don't need to see people dying, in length. I don't need blood.

Wow, a great undertaking, this movie! Could have made it into my top 10, Nobile and his insomniae, meeting the spirits of the participants somewhere between reality and dreams at the break of day. A Nobile dragging himself before his judges.

Unravelling like 'The Dead of Night' (1945). 70 to 80 minutes, hints at what happened on the ice, discussions among those involved. Finn Malmgren talking to his lover, and vice versa. Developing and exploring human depths.

Oh, well, this is supposed to be a review, not a wishlist. 7 are well deserved for what this movie is worth as it is.

Alas, the movie does spoil the larger potential of the story.
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