I think the seemingly impenetrable status this has of "3+ hour long absurdist comedy about 2 French lady magicians doing whatever" made me imagine a much different film than what I got, and it takes a good long while before the final third gets to the actual good stuff, but after both the finale and sleeping on the film as a whole I think I've been won over. For as many gripes as I have with Rivette's lingering on the… more
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Still too overwhelmed and fucked up by this thing to write a coherent analysis on how far Fred's irreversibly internalized misogynistic desires go but I will make note of one particular scene: the blinding car sex at the end before Pete turns back into Fred. For most of Pete's segment his sole focus is sex, effortlessly being able to seduce Alice on his own terms all the way until the break-in and murder where he's now forced to live with… more
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“September” is now my trauma song and that’s not a sentence I ever expected to utter
