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4.0 out of 5 stars
arty, clever, but still cinema, January 26, 2007
This review is from: Hal Hartley - Possible Films (DVD)
Rather an art exhibition thant usual movie product, this collection perfectly reflects Hal Hartley'work ; brilliant framing, excellent actors, philosophical or political stories... it will definitely suit best those that dont mind a bit of thinking
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Essential for Hartley fans, July 3, 2005
This review is from: Hal Hartley - Possible Films (DVD)
Hal Hartley is smart enough to use the short-film form to experiment and express his least commercial ideas (not that his features have set box-office records, but whatever) -- instead of to just make short stories.
Because of this experimentation, some of the shorts are abstracted to the point of incomprehensibility... and not in a good way.
The highlights are the martial arts-modern dance fugue thriller THE NEW MATH(S); THE SISTERS OF MERCY, a kind of making-of of an otherwise nonexistant movie (which begs the question whether the outtakes seemed more interesting than the intended footage, or whether SISTERS OF MERCY was always intended as a deconstructionist piece); and the excerpted play SOON, which -- unlike many of the shorts -- has some of Hartley's fine wordplay and some intriguing acting.
Quite different from most of his features, but also with an innate familiar quality that could belong to only one filmmaker.
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