review of "Eight Beauties"
Francois Ozon, a new French director, his films always have their own timeless, critical themes, homosexuality, middle class, dark style. From "The Last Days" to "Eight Beauties" to "Into the House", the middle class has always been the stage for François Ozon to play infinitely, which has a lot to do with the director's childhood environment. The wealthy family , graduated from the film academy, and his films always focus on the stories happening in the current middle-class family. This approach has also been criticized by some orthodox film schools. The director said that he wanted to eliminate the influence of social factors and hoped that the film's Emphasis is placed on the expression of human emotions.
"Eight Beauties", the Chinese translation really gave this film a too dreamy name, 8 women, in an emergency, you sang and I came on stage, in a big family that seems to be harmonious and warm , everyone is misguided and unleashed their desires. In an indoor play like this, the main characters' stories are concentrated in a closed environment. This form of setting is not new. It has long been used in classic films such as "Murder on the Orient Express" and "This Man From Earth". The innovation of this film is that the director set the story among 8 female characters, interspersed in the form of musical and dance, and a bizarre and surprising story. The man of the house was found dead in the bedroom on Christmas morning. Eight people, including family members and servants, suspected each other and shied the responsibility. During the confrontation, everyone's secrets were gradually exposed. The hostess, the greedy mother-in-law, the incestuous eldest daughter who was pregnant out of wedlock, the talkative aunt and the gay servant, etc., the director's depiction of the middle class is by no means as good as it seems, and it seems that every appearance in François ·Families in Ou Rong's films are faced with the fate of a thousand-mile embankment collapsing into an ant's nest. Any intrusion by a stranger will have a huge impact on a harmonious family. In "Into the House", the director boldly tried "human Influence on people" is a huge game, therefore, in Ou Rong's films, there is always a strange and terrifying atmosphere, the inner desire of human beings, dissatisfaction, desire, possession, the director can capture the filthiest of human nature Dirty side, and showing it, O Rong's films are full of the irony of realist literature.
I have been thinking about why Ou Rong added elements of singing and dancing to this film. My answer is that this is a good story, but it is not a good story suitable for a movie. In comparison, this story is more suitable for drama, and the story is completely In line with the three unity, time, place and events, the whole story is developed around this point, and the story of "Beautiful Picture" is too dramatic, with incest, concentrated conflict, and various coincidences, which are rarely seen in the real world. Happened, the director clearly understood this, so he combined the movie with elements of singing and dancing, which looked more like a gorgeous stage play than a movie. How could there be actors standing in a row to greet you in the movie? But it is precisely because of this that the film has become unique and has a unique artistic style. It has also attracted a lot of attention at major film festivals. Of course, the acting skills of the 8 powerful actors cannot be ignored. At the Cannes Film Festival Or the best group performance award, a director's control over 8 actresses is not something ordinary people can do.
French films have always been filled with a literary atmosphere of literature and art. Just like "Love", which swept across major film festivals this year, the simple words hide huge murderous intentions.
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