Two Monks

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S R @ScottR Apr 1 Brilliant and original for its day. I saw it since I borrowed DVDs from SLC and this one was in the collection. Although it was dated and slow at times, it had an excellent narrative that kept my interest. It was one of Scorsese's restoration films. See more 11/04/2021 The eternal theme is the love triangle, and although the film is very similar to a theatrical production, it is shot well. See more 09/06/2021 Though it may be a melodramatic love plot, it is told with such startling music, visuals, and camerawork that it leaves one to get roiled up with similar emotions as the characters and those summoned emotions are then washed away with a wave of goosebumps by the film's symbolic bookend. The decision to tell this tale under two truths was both a wise and innovative one. See more 02/11/2021 Dos monjes is noteworthy beyond its crooked atmosphere and oneiric black and white cinematography. Narratively, the film commits to the very unique decision of telling its core flashback story in full twice, once from the perspective of each of the two male protagonists (Juan and Javier, played by Víctor Urruchúa and Carlos Villatoro). They are each, of course, the hero of their own version, though neither is without truths in his perspective. Indeed, as it's pointed out at every option, before there was Kurosawa's Rashomon, there was the enigmatic and alluring Dos monjes. See more Read all reviews

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