A high-concept avant-garde comedy from Erik Løchen, who was apparently Norway's only modernist filmmaker.
The film is divided into five reels, but even though they're labelled as A, B, C, D and E, it is not neccesary to watch the movie in that order. In fact, the viewer is encouraged to randomize the "reels", or you can just pick your own order, meaning that there are 120 ways to watch this film. I've read that in 1972, it was originally…
Such a unique "action" movie. The Limits of Control takes the usual action/thriller film formula and turns it on its head.
Some of the characteristics of classic action/adventure/spy/thriller films include:
- Darwinistic power fantasy - I already write about this in detail in my review of John Woo's cult classic shoot-em-up Hard Boiled, which is still the best example of this I've found, but it's present in many other movies. The archetypal action flick features an alpha male in a…
A few days ago, I watched my favorite movie, Yoshishige "Kijū" Yoshida's Eros + Massacre for the sixth time. When it was over, I felt the urge to watch it once more; there's just something really addictive about it. This review is an attempt to try to put into words what it is about E+M that I find so compelling, why it changed the way I look at cinema, why it still feels so original 48 years after its release…
