Opening Night Reviews

Linnea 2022-12-02 08:38:58

Lots and lots of close-ups and close-ups, myrtle's frowns, smiles, and even tongue licks, all shrouded in grey anxiety. The director recklessly placed the camera in a "dangerous distance", as if tying the audience and the actors in an elevator, making people feel insecure. I believe that the actors...

Erna 2022-11-30 03:44:34

"It's not your fault that you were there."

This scene is a symbol of her whole life, and it exists as a form of expression. A while ago, I thought that Hattie's "Salesman" also had such an intertext, but the reference here is more obvious: her role in this scene is The character is tragic, and the...

Ali 2022-10-22 17:40:50

It is said that the close relationship between director John Cassavetes and actress Gina Rowlands onstage and behind the scenes adds a more blurred color to the film itself, which is a better interpretation of the film or theater world. Facing the stage, fame and aging, Gina Rowlands, a famous...

Rodger 2022-09-28 20:25:29

Cassavetes asks that question: Does a story belong to the person who creates it spiritually (the screenwriter), or does it belong to the person who gives it physical form (the actor)? We see how Myrtle is invaded, tortured, and ultimately killed by the logic of the story while selling his body. She...

Eryn 2022-09-13 23:55:08

"Boundless Night" was nominated for Best Actress at the 1978 Golden Globe Award and won the Silver Berlin Bear Award at the 1978 Berlin Film Festival. John Cassavetes is one of America's leading independent producers. The word repeatedly mentioned in the film is get old. What does aging mean to an...

Agustina 2022-09-13 23:44:36

I think this is a love letter from John Cassavetes to his wife, Gina Rowlands. No matter how old you are, no matter how anxious you are, we can still have a tacit understanding, we can still trust each other, and we can still create the most attractive movies. , like their debut night.

The drama...

Sidney 2022-09-13 22:46:21

The whole film is more than 2 hours, and I don’t know how people who say in the short comment section that when a film talks about the unconscious, they are affirming its modernity. Part, what kind of plot is an unconscious description? Also, what is modernity? What kind of modernity does it...

Antwan 2022-09-13 21:23:49

"I've seen a lot of alcoholics, but I've never seen someone who can walk like you!"

This sentence is said to a woman who is about to take the stage.

Delaney 2022-09-13 15:53:09

We already know that life is a tragedy, and what is even more tragic is that the protagonist of this tragedy is not you, but fate. Everyone is destined to be lonely in the wilderness, destined to face the loneliness of life itself, and even the inherent evil in human...