The contemplation between life and death is one I’ve always questioned myself; one I’ve personally considered, many times. I’ve always seen it as an easy escape, a quick solution to all my problems; problems I’d only really have if I remained alive (which I have and will try to).
There was always this question of wether I should take that quick route. Wether it would solve things for anyone, besides myself (quite obviously due to my non-existence if I’d gone…
Vibrant, transportive, poetic, beautiful. Very distinctly speaks as a Varda documentary in its gleaming sincerity and in the way it waxes poetically and tastefully about the beauties of the French Riviera.
I could say this is about the disillusionment of a capitalistic society and its false pretences in the propaganda of advertising... But it could just be about a cow that wants to become a hamburger.
What do you get when you take a director - who has been at the peak of his career for over a decade now, and seems to show no signs of declining or slowing down - and you give him full artistic and creative freedom to dream out his biggest ambition yet - a wholly unique, original, mind-bending twist on the concept of time? You get this epic, immaculate, globe-trotting, genre-bending, spy-inspired, insane masterclass of a film that is essentially…
