harsh c
Sad showcase of #MeToo scenarios
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03/31/23
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This is where it starts getting wonky.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/04/23
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The story stumbles awkwardly from one nipple to the implausible next, with very little interest for what's in between. In all fairness I've never really found the sternum all that interesting either, especially in comparison to tits, but the end result is a mess. Characters and drama are sold upstream for butt cheeks and belly buttons. You almost wish they would have gone for straight porn instead of walking a cheek reddening line between, "I'm here to fix your pipes" and "Hell is other people". Should you watch this movie, only if you hate women.
There are worse thing in life, like:
Sticking your tongue in a paper shredder.
Filling your nose with someone else's boogers.
Being buried alive in a coffin full of starving hagfish, in heat.
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01/19/23
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Divertida comedia absurda con tintes casi surrealistas, es una de las mas olvidadas peliculas de Roman Polanski, que obviamente no se encuentra dentro de sus mejores logros pero es un gusto personal. Me encanto el uso constante de deja-vu's. A Sydne Rome la encuentro muy guapa y carismatica en su papel (80% de la pelicula sale en calzones y con una pierna pintada de azul) y Marcello Mastroniani, hilarante, interpreta a un hedonista que gusta de verstirse de tigre como perversión. Hace años que la vi y no la encuentro por ningun lado :( , si tienen oportunidad de verla, no la desperdicien.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/05/23
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Polanski stops his suspenseful genius; he needed solid material either to adapt or to create in order to solidify his genre talents. However, like few directors dare to do in their lifetime, he throws the towel and decides to embark on a journey of the perverted and surreal. "What if I decide to challenge people to enter into my mind realm?" And so, he begins to dig the rabbit's hole as deep as he felt the pleasure to! Mocking himself, laughing at clichés, revealing Mastroianni's campiness, <i>Che?</i> is born and it is an absolute freaking blast! Like a hard slap on your viewing and moral habits!
98/100
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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eric b
If you wonder why a film Roman Polanski directed during his prime is so forgotten, you obviously haven't seen "What?" Alternately known as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams" (ugh), this voyeuristic romp seems descended from Terry Southern's "Candy" and Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" comic. Except it's not funny. It's barely even sexy.
Curly-haired beauty Synde Rome stars as Nancy, an American hitchhiker who flees a poorly chosen ride in Italy and stumbles into a luxurious, beachfront getaway. Like Candy and Annie, she's a naive, manipulable blonde who somehow keeps losing her clothes. Aww, how embarrassing for the poor dear. During most of the film, she has one leg painted blue and wears only a borrowed pajama top. It's not worth explaining.
The idyllic home is owned by an old invalid (character actor Hugh Griffith, Britain's answer to Jack Elam). But he has multiple guests and caretakers, including the ubiquitous Marcello Mastroianni. Marcello takes a shine to sweet Nancy and soon has her indulging his favorite fantasy, which involves being playfully whipped as he crawls around in a tiger skin. Grrr. In a later scene, Marcello talks to a tree. This was not his proudest role.
Other visitors include a woman who casually walks around nude, a Mozart-loving pianist (his duets with Nancy are quite enjoyable as music), two ping-pong addicts and a hip priest who eventually gets kicked in the groin. Most of them have some sort of lurid interest in Nancy. Polanski himself appears as a trivial imp nicknamed "Mosquito." It's easy to see why women found him so adorable.
Rome is not a bad actress, and indeed is still working today. But even Mastroianni can't salvage this tired, aimless script.
Following this disaster, Polanski's next project was a little noir tale called "Chinatown."
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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