Les Destinees
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Summary: 2 Stars
What happens when Europeans apply their methods of closet drama to make an "epic"?
You have the usual main characters whom you don't like at first sight and want to get away from as quickly as possible once you get to know them better.
You have no action whatever on screen for the entire 165 minutes (not three hours).
You have brief glimpses rather than scenes. For instance, WWI is three glimpses, none of which involve battles or anything as vulgar as that.
You have a lot of talk, which is believed by the characters and by the filmmaker to be profound and insightful, but which is merely stupid.
You have people who are able to manufacture misery out of thin air. Even when they're living in an idyllic Swiss villa with no need to work, they manage to be miserable.
You have the work of a factory lovingly portrayed with many, many glimpses.
It is sad that people have been made to regard such posturing as art, and even sadder that some people take such sick observations about life seriously. The only profound remark in the entire film is that love is what matters. True, it is; but this film does not illustrate that. Still less does it make the audience feel that.
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