What a chore and a bore this 'film' is.
I've watched it a few times now (among friends) , and it gets worse every time I see it.
It another Emperors New Clothes project, for all its posing, there's very little substance beneath its sulky pouting and fastidious hair cuts.
The soundtrack is turgid- most of the songs used were boring at the time- though now escalated as cultural classics, they are all safe bets in a soundtrack, while far more exciting groups were about at the time- CAN , FAUST, AMON DUUL, DUB, Funk & uplifting Disco).
The story is turgid and affected. Too many Jean Luc Goddard films and storyless art-house indulges seem to have influenced the director, he doesn't seem to have any ideas, or ability to entertain his audience.
If you can't relate to any of the characters in the film, why would anyone care what occurs to them. What was the point of the story here ? .. to show us how boring, affected people can effect and bore a film audience?
It's not even beautiful in a melancholy way such as in films like Stalker & Solaris, or futuristic and 'alienated' in intriguing ways like LaJetee or Alphaville (Godard again, but with ideas)
79 was a colourful time, so this is just more affected bland, withdrawn, alienated personalities superimposing their tedium and blandness upon the viewers.
Everyone has sat in the back of a car and been bored or intrigued by the passing landscape - this is exactly what this film is, with some occasional layby & bedsit incidents between horrible characters...
A genuine British Cult Classic ?!
More like a job for the poseur club of UK arts funding, and food for fanciful critics .
I've watched it a few times now (among friends) , and it gets worse every time I see it.
It another Emperors New Clothes project, for all its posing, there's very little substance beneath its sulky pouting and fastidious hair cuts.
The soundtrack is turgid- most of the songs used were boring at the time- though now escalated as cultural classics, they are all safe bets in a soundtrack, while far more exciting groups were about at the time- CAN , FAUST, AMON DUUL, DUB, Funk & uplifting Disco).
The story is turgid and affected. Too many Jean Luc Goddard films and storyless art-house indulges seem to have influenced the director, he doesn't seem to have any ideas, or ability to entertain his audience.
If you can't relate to any of the characters in the film, why would anyone care what occurs to them. What was the point of the story here ? .. to show us how boring, affected people can effect and bore a film audience?
It's not even beautiful in a melancholy way such as in films like Stalker & Solaris, or futuristic and 'alienated' in intriguing ways like LaJetee or Alphaville (Godard again, but with ideas)
79 was a colourful time, so this is just more affected bland, withdrawn, alienated personalities superimposing their tedium and blandness upon the viewers.
Everyone has sat in the back of a car and been bored or intrigued by the passing landscape - this is exactly what this film is, with some occasional layby & bedsit incidents between horrible characters...
A genuine British Cult Classic ?!
More like a job for the poseur club of UK arts funding, and food for fanciful critics .