Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:17 am
L'Inhumaine just didnt work in narrative terms for me, fascinating though it is visually.
Well.. this is a better place to say it away from the Roue controversy (the recent moronic assault upon me by a certain, uh, label-ambassador, which riccocheted back upon them to my total vindication by the always excellent La Cle du..)--
La Roue restored felt totally overwrought, filled with wretchedly turgid acting. By the time of the end of disc two I felt I'd been importuned all the way home for spare change by a homeless teller of tales. WOnderful innovations in spots, but way too long, too little story, and atomically melodramatic, and not on a par with the swedes, murnau, dreyer, griffith, and certainly not Epstein.
I just couldnt stir up more muck on that thread so close in to last week.
