Our household has had a long-standing movie rule, thanks to TLV-TLV'sLB-TLVLS's father. This rule stems from the era when movie-rental "houses" had mostly video and game-disk rentals, all neatly lined up against the walls and on racks crossing the entirety of the store. It took a while, but I finally subscribed to the rule - only rent movies that 1: have more than one copy available to rent 2: feature actors/actresses whose names are recognizable or both 1 and 2. This rule was established after a pattern emerged of bringing home odd movies that everyone groaned through. Actually, the only odd thing, to me, is that we would usually watch the movie in its totality, even though the groaning may have been louder than the movie itself. ,
Yesterday, Capt. SO picked out a movie from the Big Red Rectangle. The movie was billed as the "Best Movie of the Year", albeit with a cast listing of nary a recognizable name. Oops, big rule violation right there, but it was a thoughtful gesture and I did not want to cast immediate aspersions on this spontaneous act. The one identifiable surname associated with it was Coppola and, knowing the reputation from Francis Ford and his progeny, we thought we'd give it a try.
Strange, indeed. Strange but brilliant in this bizarre sort of way. Opening scenes, perhaps the first eight to ten minutes, were wordless and devoid of music background. In fact, the film had zero background music, other than music that was playing as part of a scene. It was immediately evident that this was not your usual movie. Cinematographically speaking, it was highly creative, not in the standard sort of vista-view way, but more in the vein of how NBC's "The Office" is shot.
I'm not recommending this movie but I will say that I'd be very interested in the opinion of others who have watched it. When the movie ended last night, Capt SO and I simply looked at each other and wordlessly went about preparing for sleep. I guess the movie inspired us in that respect. By the way, the title of the film is "Somewhere".
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