Life is a Bed of Roses

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Alain E @AlainE Nov 27 I had never heard of that work before and now I understand why. This is an incoherent heap of crap that Mr Resnais imagined that it represented high art. I watched the first 30 minutes and my recommendation is to skip it completely. The period of the action moves from 1914 to 1982 without any good reason. There are many elements that supposedly carry deep symbolism like the painting being carried in a heavy crate. See more 03/09/2011 good inter-connecting storylines See more 04/11/2010 A tad exaggerated in the hands of Resais but I understand what he is trying to give credit to. Lovely to watch if slightly over done. See more 02/20/2010 Im beginning to think that while Godard is the more historically important film maker, he was always been foremost a "critic", whose main aim was to create webs of references and change our ways of veiwing cinema as an art, andd though I have allot of respect and admiration for his work and the role of criticism in general, the poetry, politcs, and philosophy his characters often talk about second-hand is fully embodied in the films of Alian Resnais, who managed to absob Godard's self-awarness, but also to transcend it. Godard was always taking notes, while Resnais was writing essays(or so Ive come to feel of late). This is a strange, but brilliant multi-storied, pseudo-musical, about the role of fantasy and imagination. A wealthy Utopian group in the early 1900's builds an elaborate castle called "The City Of Happiness", where they can try to be "reborn" through a series of esoteric rituals like Jodorwosky's "Holy Mountain", while years later when the structure has become a boarding school a group of educators have a conference on the role of imagiantion in education. Several children who have remained at the school during the conference run around and imagine a world of knights and dragons and monsters. The three stories are edited together sublimely bouncing and contrasting their themes of off one another, in funny, insightful, and emotionally engaging ways. See more 01/11/2009 So I thought I Want to Go Home was just an aberration for Resnais, but unfortunately I was wrong. This is every bit as over the top, but at least here the cartoon-like characterizations fit better into the children's fairytale-musical context. The humor works pretty well at first but it eventually gets tiresome and plain silly. The three parallel narratives are well juxtaposed together and thematically consistent. In the end the whole farcical arguing and fighting and seducing bullshit didn't do anything for me. See more 06/02/2008 Pseudo-musical de trasfondo filosófico. Demasido friki hasta para mi. See more Read all reviews

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