Three Day Delay

I watched this movie a couple of days ago, and it has occupied a lot of brain-time since.

I think I understand the greater POV of the movie, and certainly appreciate the uniqueness of the film-making. I genuinely liked it, and thought it put a directorial power over the viewer (me).

There are some practical details that have gotten to me. What was it that the drunk did that was so bad that he was repeatedly called a "murderer: and a "leech"? Did the police have a specific crime that they called him and Gerard forward for to have them fingerprinted? Or was it supposed to be just a general accepted sense of criminality that we were supposed to accept?

This was a heart-breaking film, and one to be absorbed more than watched. Gerard is one of the most hateful movie villains I have ever seen.

Solid Snake

Probably should post a synopsis and a trailer cuz... you're coming in cold here and some of us may want to see it based on your post but know nothing about it.

Three Day Delay

It's a 1966 movie, and considered one of the greats by most in-the-know. I dont know if there is an on-line trailer available.

Three Day Delay

A quick youtube search...my bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXB3xN35p8

Trevor

One of the greatest films of all time. That's about as deep as my film criticism goes.

wendersfan

I've never been so emotionally affected by a movie as I was the first time I saw it. After it was over I sat in my seat and wept for several minutes.

Three Day Delay

I'd like to hear some more of your thoughts on the movie.

inri222

And probably IMO Robert Bresson's best film and I like a bunch of them. I agree with wendersfan about the impact of the film. I watched it my wife about 10 years ago and when it was over we looked like a couple of grown babies. It's been a while and I need to watch it again.

rocket1312

This is exactly why I've avoided seeing it all these years. I'll see it someday, but going on what I already know about it, I'm 100% certain it will destroy me.

Three Day Delay

Obviously, I don't know your depth in movies. I wouldn't recommend it to a college freshman

But for a film fan, I would put it alongside "The Bicycle Thief" as far as narrative quality.

It is an emotionally exhausting film, yet completely worth seeing.

I liked "The Force Awakens", but I was't contemplating it two days later.

Norm de Plume

As I've said before, it's one of those whose exhaltation among cineastes simply leaves me nonplussed, like most of Bresson's oeuvre (though I find his visual minimalism inimitably exemplary). The climactic scene is indeed touching, but everything that comes before it is just a sparsely written and carelessly edited mess of haphazard, unconnected scenes and characters. With a better script it could have been something really special.

Mondo Kane

I'm in the same boat as Norm. For me, Mouchette is the one to beat.

Norm de Plume

^I find Mouchette better-made and more coherent than Balthazar, but my fave Bresson by far, of those I have seen, is the magnificent A Man Escaped.

inri222

IMO just about all of his films starting from A Man Escaped all the way up to his last film L'Argent are masterpieces. I still haven't seen Four Nights of a Dreamer & A Gentle Woman. A Man Escaped was my first exposure to Bresson and then I was hooked. I still think Au Hasard Balthazar is his best film. One of his highly regarded films that I did not get all the praise for was Diary of a Country Priest.

Norm de Plume

Une Femme Douce is par-for-the-course Bresson. If you love the rest of his work, you will love it. I have Four Nights, but haven't seen it yet. One of the only other Bressons I think I would be partial to, and regrettably haven't yet watched, is Pickpocket.
The worst film of his I have seen is Le Diable Probablement. Just dreadful.

Three Day Delay

Oooooh. That is a friggin' fantastic movie. Please watch it soon.

inri222

Pickpocket is excellent. I actually like Le Diable Probablement but can understand why someone would dislike it.

Norm de Plume

Thanks for the recommendations. I think Pickpocket is one I will love because, as with A Man Escaped, I can see the premise being well-complemented (or at least not hurt) by Bresson's contextual parsimony, but I have stacks and stacks of other films to watch and write about. And I'm not like some you guys, who manage to somehow watch a couple of movies a day. Maybe I'll place it towards the front of my French section.