Part b-movie grindhouse, part pastiche- this uneven film has more than a few thruway moments- but a few absolute stunners as well
Superb opening credit titles- grabs your attention quickly that there is a clear artistic effort
Spoofs like Airplane, Naked Gun or the Italian vignette section of Woody’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (Will Ferrell even speaks in Spanish for the entire film I believe)
The film is all over the place, a long instrumental with broken glasses, matchbox car miniatures of a small town, the mannequin sex scene
Not quite the archiveable reunion we’ve all been hoping for between Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna more than a decade after Y Tu Mama Tambien
There’s a 10 minute stretch in here of remarkable filmmaking. It starts really at the dinner- Piedmont uses the 1960’s/70’s grindhouse era western zooms, even an extreme close-up of darting eyes like Leone.
Then at 41 minutes we get a song by Will Ferrell and Genesis Rodriguez- alternating close-ups with the other character in the background. Great shots of foreground/background depth of field work in the frame
Then at 41 minutes we get a song by Will Ferrell and Genesis Rodriguez- alternating close-ups with the other character in the background. Great shots of foreground/background depth of field work in the frame
At 43 minutes we get a Spike Lee-like double-dolly shot of Rodriguez as she moves forward down the aisle on her wedding day- extremely notable cinema
At 43 minutes we get a Spike Lee-like double-dolly shot of Rodriguez as she moves forward down the aisle on her wedding day- extremely notable cinema
This launches into a slow-motion bloodbath Wild Bunch-style shootout and ends in a perfectly symmetrical shot of Rodriguez framed within the frame by the white alter around her— as I said- a 10 minute stretch of magnificent cinema
ends in a perfectly symmetrical shot of Rodriguez framed within the frame by the white alter around her— as I said- a 10 minute stretch of magnificent cinema
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