the puppet looked like something out of a Mike Mignola comic

I like how you separate deep from powerful because yeah, it is. There is power in simplicity, in raw honesty with a hint of irony, is very strong in this film and Demy's cinema in general. He's very good at taking something very simple and enhancing it.

The rejection scene, where the men just politely ask for a goodbye kiss, get explicit consent, kiss their cheeks, admit they look silly and move on from rejection to form simple friendship, is a really cool thing to see on film (especially in 1967)

You calling Jacques Perrin ugly hurts my soul, he made me realise i like boysat like 4 years old ghfjdk

29:35 one of my favourite lines in the entire film is "if a prince charming doesn't come save me, I'll swear I'll go find him myself." If they hadn't met, she would've simply saved herself, and I really like that.

I really like how in terms of makeup and styling they (especially the princess) look way more adult at their wedding than previously.

It's really nice how you're familiar enough with both Demy and Cocqueteau to appreciate motifs and references (also just in general you provide really good analysis)

The reason why she plays both the wife and daughter, to me, is that the only person he can find beautiful is someone who looks just like his wife, because he still loves her and his mind is distorted by grief. Which doesnt make what he does justified but explains it for sure

The piano player was Noel Cowards last accompanist

Twiggy on the record is taken from the 30s British films of Jesse Matthews...if you haven't seen them...watch

The Greek sequence is "Daphnus and Chloe"... KZbin The arrangement and Google the story

Haven't seen this film since high school but I'm planning to fill in some of my Bergman blind spots soon and I want to revisit this one along with those, especially since I've seen First Reformed many times since then. From my memory, it's quite a cold but still intriguing experience, Bergman has more interesting depictions of lost faith in my view, but I also think I would engage with this film differently now than I did back then.

RIP Natasha Richardson. She fit the part so well, and she was just so genuine and warm in this version. 💕

That's the best description of this movie, ever

looove this movie; love how first reformed was inspired by it too

I really enjoy your commentary. If you're a fan of Anton Walbrook, you might want to check out "The Student from Prague." Creepy, like the "Queen of Spades" and Walbrook shows off his fencing skills. Three versions were made from over a 20-year period starting in the silent era up to the Walbrook version made in 1935. Walbrook is an amazing actor, imo. Does not get the recognition he deserves.

The 1993 version was awesome. This was an entirely different story all together.

This give me serious Barry Lyndon vibes

That’s not Marilyn Monroe that’s Linda Cristal.

After this movie Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. You never expose sick elites that run the world without consequences ;)

This is like a Greek tragedy...nobody gets out alive at the end.😂

great commentyar, had to watch this for a class and you helped me understand it :)

This could almost be seen as a sort of sequel to Russell's The Devils from a historical standpoint. The priest may have been meant to be Jean-Joseph Surin, who was sent to exorcise Sister Jeanne after the death of Grandier.

You’re talking is just too much for me

essentially the creators that you can say were inspired by this film yet took away the very purpose of it created a simulacrum of the very movie.

"Ken Russell is...a STRANGE...director[.]" As someone that had seen and enjoyed several films of his before watching The Boy Friend - particularly The Devils, The Lair of the White Worm, and Crimes of Passion - I must say that my brain started to have a total nuclear meltdown as I began to watch The Boy Friend for the first time. It's more barking mad than anything else I'd ever seen from him by far. It took me until I watched it a second time until I fully realized that I absolutely loved it, and that it was actually my favorite film of his, and one of my very favorite films period. I'm not a theatre person at all, and I usually struggle with live-action musical movies...so unabashedly loving this was a bit of a shock to me. I've watched it at least a dozen more times after the first, and that's all been just within the past year.

This is a fantastic, thoughtful review. It's a wonderful film.

The italian curly leader in "Salo" is this Art Garfunkel??

A random tik tok brought me here i had never heard of this story and that puppet creeped me out so I had to know about it this channel is pretty dope though

I only first heard of this movie a few years ago, but Donkeyskin was such a classic fairy tale when I was a kid! <3 Though Perrault wasn't the author of "Beauty and the Beast", that came about 50 years after his stories. Perrault told classics such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or little Red Riding Hood. Also, we don't exactly know how the weather-coloured dress was made! In 2013 they tried to recreate the dress following the producers' info on what they used (with projectors and a dress made of cinema screen material) but the effect just wasn't the same. There are various theories on how they might have actually done it

4:59 Dude. It's Ravel's String Quartet 😕

Very nice😄❤

Definitely one of the lesser Demy movies for me but I do love Anouk in it. Very curious what you'll think of Une Chambre en Ville, I think it has some incredibly striking elements

are you planning on watching victor/victoria (1982) sometime? :)

Starts like Total Recall (1990).

Great video.

Great video

Great video.

I need you react all of us strangers

Can you react all of us strangers please?

Glad you (or anyone...) have reviewed a Hungarian film. B. from Hungary.

I watched this movie in the theater as a freshman in college. I really enjoyed the movie.

One of my favorites and so romantic - true no one can tell a romance movie like the French!!

Totally on the money with your LaLaLand observations.

This was very informative!! Respectfully, I think you missed one (or two, depending on what's counted). In the elevator, Sue peels off her fingernail, then loses an ear. Those two lost body parts, correspond to two lost body parts (in two separate, very key moments) in "The Fly" (1986). Considering also, that ••she takes off the (index) fingernail•• and then ••her ear falls off••, that exactly describes both events in "The Fly," so I think "The Substance" is referencing THAT film, at that point, rather than something else. :)

i really appreciate your focus on the cinematography in this film. i have yet to find another film that masters so tastefully subtlety in spirituality, composition, movement and contrast as you said. the only other film that i have found to be on the same aesthetic level of this is Hagazussa by Lukas Feigelfeld. I don't know why Mother Joan of the angels gets compared to The devils so often tbh. Completely different aesthetics. "The devils" is more ridiculous than artful imo.

It appears to be an inferior allusion to Seconds. The consumerist tone could've been better if everything had been fine-tuned. The wide angles, fish-eye lenses, and sexually inserted shots properly accentuated the tone.

She’s phenomenal in this film

You should watch Robert Eggers's short film adaptation of "The Tell Tale Heart" by E A Poe, free here on KZbin. I promise you'll like it.

Of course I recommend the new cut of Napoleon. I don’t know if someone dubbed it