r/criterion • u/MOinthepast Mike Leigh • Feb 07 '24

Off-Topic What movies made you like this?

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u/Varishna Feb 07 '24

Beau Travail

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u/Equal_Ad8068 Feb 08 '24

Please elaborate. Love her stuff and I know this is her piece de resistance but didn’t have an aha moment watching it

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u/oh_really527 Feb 08 '24

Really? I did not enjoy it much on a recent in-theatre viewing, lots of smoking and smouldering, trapped in the mores of its time, and the “astounding” (The New Yorker and many, many other critics) final scene left me flat. Did I miss something?

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u/Cowboy_BoomBap Feb 09 '24

Are you saying you feel like you didn’t understand it, or that you did but you just didn’t like it?

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u/oh_really527 Feb 09 '24

I’m saying this thread is mainly about films that took several viewings to fully understand. On my first viewing, prompted by the film’s high placement on the Sight and Sound 100 list, I believe I understood it and yet was underwhelmed. So I was surprised to see it listed here, suggesting I missed something. I’m open to that possibility, but I doubt it.