This is exactly what happened in "Climax". Actors scream and panic for the whole time, and while this at first is effective because it creates a sense of discomfort, if does not evolve into something else, it is annoying. I don't even know what I watched in the last 20 minutes, because it was impossible to understand what was going on. I understand that the director wanted to give a sense of confusion and he manages to do it at the beginning, by rotating the camera, or with unusual shootings, but then he decided to randomly panning and zooming, and I was completely lost.
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There are a few scenes that are really uncomfortable, especially when drugs start to kick in, but then the movie becomes crazy. In the other half finally things start to move: we see characters tripping and while we go on, the situation gets worse and worse. I was almost giving up after 35 minutes of absolute nothing, just a bunch of people dancing and speaking about dirty and trivial stuff. First of all, it is too long and the buildup is too slow. I often search for strange and different movies that separate from the most "conventional" and commercial cinema, but unfortunately not all experiment are good and "Climax" is the perfect example of a failed trial. Superb music! This movie should be watched several times to be fully appreciated.I love when directors experiment and try to push boundaries. I agree completely with another commentator who said that the ending of the movie is perhaps one of the most genuinely melancholic moments in modern cinematography. She becomes his muse, his courage, his sense of honor, his whole rationale for confronting difficult and disruptive life of the war-torn Italy. Renato (the teenage boy) wins his audience by his incredibly pure and valiant love for Malena (this affection he carries in his heart for several years). Malena's stunningly beautiful eyes remain constantly downcast, and her face - tense and pierced through by psychic pain (she rarely raises her face, let alone speaks words). Apart from her truly majestic elegance, Monica Bellucci invests her character (Malena) with an aura of tragedy, of some profound and unrelenting emotional trauma and pain which remains unspoken throughout the film and reaches its climax at the very end. The two leading actors (Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro) are simply excellent at what they are supposed to convey in this movie. It is a masterful combination of sites, sounds and colors.
Malena is a beautiful and deeply touching film. Reviewed by lkil 9 /10 Cinematographic Symphony (My dream sequence, I guess) My favorite character was Renato's father, hilariously played by Luciano Federico. The title role, played well by a dazzling Monica Bellucci, could have been written for a young Sophia Loren. The male lead, an adolescent boy, is portrayed with great empathy by Giuseppe Sulfaro without schmaltz or sanitizing, so typical in American films about puberty. Tornatore brilliantly uses silent stares, pairs of eyes and silly dream sequences with amazing effect. There is a sequence with airplanes overhead that is absolutely dizzying without any fancy 3-D or pyrotechnic effects. The film made me wake up to the fact that so much American film, perhaps all contemporary film, is composed mainly of close ups with two or a few people. Just like walking down a busy urban street anywhere with your ears and eyes open. The film brought me into the bustling street life of the Sicilian village by eye-level camera work and the comments of the people in crowded scenes, through which I was taken with the characters. I was also impressed with the film maker's story telling technique.
I found the film to be visually hypnotic and very moving. Reviewed by paulcreeden N/A Viva Tornatore!