>>23594106There no accounting for taste, but I liked it. Granted, I'm a shut-in loser who has seen thousands of movies so my taste tend to run weird. Though I hope not "pretentious".(-_-)
Everything I've mentioned in this thread aside from 2073, which I'm not sure why I posted, I like.
"Hard to be a God" is really something. No plot that I can tell, though supposedly there's one.
Still, so so ...bizarre. and, medieval and ... You can just tell it wasn't made in the West with unions threatening ever time someone stubs their pinkie toe.
ChatGPT:
"November (2017), directed by Rainer Sarnet, is a surreal Estonian film set in a 19th-century pagan village steeped in myth and hardship. Blending folklore, black comedy, and gothic romance, it follows peasants who struggle through winter using magic, theft, and strange spirits called kratts—animated tools made from scraps and souls. Amid plague, wolves, and the Devil himself, a poor girl named Liina pines for Hans, who loves a noblewoman. The story explores love, greed, and humanity’s desperate bargains with nature and the supernatural, all shot in haunting black-and-white imagery."
Hard to be a God
"Hard to Be a God (2013), directed by Aleksei German, is a brutal, immersive epic set on a distant planet stuck in a permanent medieval age. Scientists from Earth, forbidden to interfere, observe a society drowning in filth, ignorance, and cruelty after a failed Renaissance. The central figure, Don Rumata, a supposed nobleman and secret observer, tries in vain to protect fragments of art and intellect as violence and superstition consume everything. Filmed in stark black-and-white and dense with chaos, the movie becomes a visceral, almost wordless descent into mud, decay, and moral futility—an allegory of civilization’s endless failure to rise above barbarism."
Enjoy. (-_-)
