Overwhelming debut about the doubts of the director Nance about his relationship with a beautiful young woman. He combines personal experiences with fiction, documentary and various animation styles. A film filled with vulnerability and humour; enthusiasm leaps at you from the screen.
One evening in 2006, the young American filmmaker Terence Nance receives a phone call from the woman he had been trying to build up a relationship with for some time. She can’t come. He starts having his doubts. Why did she back out?
Open-hearted, sharp and playful, Nance tries in An Oversimplification of Her Beauty to trace all the elements of his feelings about the evening back to their true origins. Fantasies, feelings and memories roll over the screen in the form of documentary footage, live action and a wide range of animation styles. And in addition there are the inevitable questions that the maker must pose: How well does he know himself? Is he not being deceived by his own feelings?
For a phenomenon that everybody occasionally experiences, the starting point for An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is surprisingly seldom the subject of films. What goes on in your body as you experience emotions at a certain point? And how ‘sure’ is that moment really?
混合实景与多种动画形式,拼贴现实与幻想,构建起一座私人情感与思维的主题乐园,孤独自省是一台旋转木马,交错的时间线如万花筒般瑰丽。稍显可惜的是材料编排的失序与主题的单薄,令人惊叹的是导演的才气几乎要溢出屏幕。
2013/07/24 我坚持看了十分钟,然后一直睡到完场!虽然电影评论家们盛赞导演天马行空的创意和艺术创作力,我倒是觉得就是一文艺青年极度自我陶醉,充满小家子气的作品。
不一样的话痨
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