I don't know why - but the first two scenes. The first has a sort of eerie, melancholic beauty to it - and the second is just pure genius.
Does anyone else think that they were better scenes within the film?
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The apartment sequence is sheer perfection. Everything from the lighting, the contrast in color with the white furniture and walls with the setting outside, the way everything slowly builds. It's like Godard took all that was good about the apartment scene in Breathless and kicked it up a notch.
shareI heard there's a mermaid fantasy scene. Since I've heard this film is a sort of satire-drama, I'm wondering what the purpose of that scene is. Could anyone elaborate?
shareI remember the scene in the projection room where Fritz Lang shows a naked girl swimming, representing a mermaid... The producer reacts with glee and thinks it's great because of the nudity.
Later in the film Bardot swims in the sea (also naked) so she became the mermaid, the sell out aspect of the film within the film. This is the moment when all is lost for the script doctor Paul.
for me, the car accident.
shareNevermind the scenes, but out of its 3 acts - it does seem to lend itself to such classical division - the last third was by far the best. Not only due the natural gorgeousity of the isle of Capri, but also the effective, precise and imaginative camerawork & compositions as well as the story that finally starts gaining some dramatic weight. The first act held some promise despite meandering badly, but the part that almost manages to kill and burie the whole goddamn enterprise is the exruciating and seemingly everlasting middle part in Piccoli´s and Bardot´s apartment where the couple stagger around and babble banalities mixed with awkwardly poetic verbiage about their f-cking feelings for almost 40 minutes. It´s such an awful dramatic void and cinematic non-event that it´s actually a miracle the picture somehow manages to survive at all; it´s almost as if Godard was daring his audience to sit out that dramatic dizzy spell. And they just talk and they talk and they say things like "what is it that makes me think you´ve stopped loving me" or "you seem to be searching my expression to decide"... oh bugger. Anyway, the final third saves the day and even manages to build some emotional resonance by the end of it. Just wish the entire film woulda been as focused as this. 6,5/10.
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I loved the scene where Paul climbs the stairs on the roof of the Capri villa to see Camille who is sunbathing nude. Behind her is a stone wall that initially looked like it had classical scenes carved onto it, such was its distinct colouration. I loved that so much!
Never test the depth of the water with both feetshare