Great talk. Love the insights into cinematography. . Examples: - The camera is "always moving", a few times in film, *as if* it's looking for something. - Use of *still shots,* to generate tension ... at a time when teacher is worried about her safety, and she is out of shot: the camera - which has been moving a lot - is suddenly still. - Phantom POV. After 23:45 *"the Phantom POV Shot" is* a shot that *looks like* it's someone's point of view. Phantom POV Shot is a more detailed version of what I used to think of as "the paranoia shot", a shot that hints someone is watching. A long view, sometimes. But in this film, he says it's more than just a point of view without anyone shown having rhe POV; the camera may *also* be wobbling *as if* someone is walking!
I watched this for the first time last Tuesday. Wonderful film, and it took me a mintue to realize they did a single shot on that walk from the reception hall.
Phenomenal review. I saw this film many years ago and you have articulated everything I felt. Please review more French films. I remember seeing Les Diabolique when I was a teenager and fell in love with French cinema - can you review this please?
I'd love to do more French films, and I definitely will in the future. Got some other areas in the immediate future, but I'll be back and will definitely keep Les Diaboliques in mind - great idea!
Bravo i'm a big fan Chabrol's movies. Your analysis is right and deep. Tour analysis helped me to see Le Boucher with more acuity. THaNks a kot. I recommand to you ! "Le scandale" with Anthony Perkins and Maurice Ronet ( a beautiful technicolor movie wth the best score of Pierre Jansen) and more recently " Une affaire de femmmes" with Isabelle Huppert about abortion and "Betty" a wonderful Simenon novel adaptation with Marie Trintignant. And of cours his last big success " La Ceremonie" with Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire.
De rien! But it is me who should thank you really. I've been seriously enjoying your French cinema series, especially the one I'm familiar with: Cléo from 5 to 7. I also watched your discussions of 'Diary of my Children' and a few more, which were all engaging and entertaining to say the least. I say discussions not reviews because one of the most admiral qualities of your content is that you're not a reviewer, rather an analyst who expands our perspective about a film, or hell even a film period! Chabrol engages in subtle ways to entertain and deepen an intelligent psychological study. He's always unpredictable. I have not completed his filmography including the one you're analysing, but I find that he created what is called "The Chabrollians", which are characters who wear psychological masks, say what they don't do, and do what they don't say. Not only he created them, but he also made us detect and understand them. Thank you. Nice shirt BTW :")
Hey there, thanks for the comment - and the initial suggestions. I'm happy to hear you saw the video. Was just talking with a friend about Chabrol a couple days ago - completely coincidentally, he's been making his way through the filmography this spring. Hope to discuss more of his work in future vids.
Great talk. Love the insights into cinematography.
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Examples:
- The camera is "always moving", a few times in film, *as if* it's looking for something.
- Use of *still shots,* to generate tension ... at a time when teacher is worried about her safety, and she is out of shot: the camera - which has been moving a lot - is suddenly still.
- Phantom POV.
After 23:45 *"the Phantom POV Shot" is* a shot that *looks like* it's someone's point of view.
Phantom POV Shot is a more detailed version of what I used to think of as "the paranoia shot", a shot that hints someone is watching. A long view, sometimes.
But in this film, he says it's more than just a point of view without anyone shown having rhe POV; the camera may *also* be wobbling *as if* someone is walking!
I watched this for the first time last Tuesday. Wonderful film, and it took me a mintue to realize they did a single shot on that walk from the reception hall.
Phenomenal review. I saw this film many years ago and you have articulated everything I felt. Please review more French films. I remember seeing Les Diabolique when I was a teenager and fell in love with French cinema - can you review this please?
I'd love to do more French films, and I definitely will in the future. Got some other areas in the immediate future, but I'll be back and will definitely keep Les Diaboliques in mind - great idea!
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Bravo i'm a big fan Chabrol's movies. Your analysis is right and deep. Tour analysis helped me to see Le Boucher with more acuity. THaNks a kot. I recommand to you ! "Le scandale" with Anthony Perkins and Maurice Ronet ( a beautiful technicolor movie wth the best score of Pierre Jansen) and more recently " Une affaire de femmmes" with Isabelle Huppert about abortion and "Betty" a wonderful Simenon novel adaptation with Marie Trintignant. And of cours his last big success " La Ceremonie" with Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire.
De rien! But it is me who should thank you really. I've been seriously enjoying your French cinema series, especially the one I'm familiar with: Cléo from 5 to 7. I also watched your discussions of 'Diary of my Children' and a few more, which were all engaging and entertaining to say the least. I say discussions not reviews because one of the most admiral qualities of your content is that you're not a reviewer, rather an analyst who expands our perspective about a film, or hell even a film period!
Chabrol engages in subtle ways to entertain and deepen an intelligent psychological study. He's always unpredictable. I have not completed his filmography including the one you're analysing, but I find that he created what is called "The Chabrollians", which are characters who wear psychological masks, say what they don't do, and do what they don't say. Not only he created them, but he also made us detect and understand them. Thank you.
Nice shirt BTW :")
Hey there, thanks for the comment - and the initial suggestions. I'm happy to hear you saw the video. Was just talking with a friend about Chabrol a couple days ago - completely coincidentally, he's been making his way through the filmography this spring. Hope to discuss more of his work in future vids.