本来的小说denis johnson是用中美洲的大背景as an allegory for hell;indiewire有个评论介绍这个“ two white foreigners who fall in love (or at least fuck a lot) against the ... political tensions is a cryptic & carnal search for a way out of purgatory”哈哈正如the cop asks“you think all this is exotic, huh?” 感觉把背景改成covid不是很有意义…… 不如不改不过穿border那里想到了一些疫情间比如一对老年情侣一人带一把椅子在border两侧坐着聊天这样的新闻音乐太好听了我觉得德尼x denis johnson这个组合真是非常妙… 叙事的感觉还是很johnson电影的render去掉了一些johnson的masculinity… 又是导演擅长的题材但总觉得看得不太舒畅 可能是有些镜头怪怪的 倒是让我非常想去再读一些johnson 或许这次电影输了
Coexistence of romanticism with Visconti's realism in a most natural & authentic blend. A fairly eventless dialogue-driven story takes two lonely hearts around a wonderful walk through the explicit reconstitution of a small Italian town by the sea, full of tiny bridges and narrow streets. A few uninspired dialogues contributed to a couple of bland moments, quickly eclipsed by a memorable & invirogorating dance scene to shake some waists up before an exceptional finale. In it the emotional outburst & heart-breaking separation are symbolized by the positioning of the characters in deep field and the travelled distance of the Eternal Woman from one man to the other. Deceit & Self-deceit...