When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade

The subtitles, which make the most muffled speeches comprehensible, are an interference, though the raggedness of the sound makes Pialat's point: this isn't rhetorical dialogue, addressed to the audience to make dramatic and character points, but speech considered as a sound effect, part of the natural content of the image.

Space, as well as time, disappears in the black hole between two shots. And the editing even devours different levels of reality:

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By choosing melodrama over realism, Chabrol is able to make use of the genre's outrageous coincidences, extreme emotions, and sudden psychological reversals, giving his film the texture of a distorted, subjective experience-the

In Rowlands's work and his own, you can see Method acting brought to a new level, extended to the point where it becomes something else: it's no longer the externalization of interior feelings, but the complete possession of the body by those feelings; the actor is almost inseparable from his expression.

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He has gained his art, but he has lost his life.

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