Bonnie & Clyde is one of the very few films that I consider to be essentially perfect, maintaining both our emotional connection to Bonnie and Clyde as well as our emotional distance from what they do. It would’ve been much easier to either make them unlikable villains or give us some reason that explains their actions but Bonnie & Clyde doesn’t let us off so easily.
The end lost me a little, but up until then, it was enjoyable watching Godard synthesize objects, ideas, and styles from his earlier films. And virtuoso tracking shots make me happy.
Wow. I was expecting to like this, because of the Audrey Hepburn factor, but I really wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it is. I may have to revise my opinion of director Stanley Donen after this. Hepburn and Albert Finney play a couple whose marriage is on the verge of collapsing. As [...]
Sidney Poitier plays a young man from Africa who takes the rather undesirable position of a teacher at an inner-city London school to make a little money before he continues his studies to be an engineer. His class of high school seniors is full of hoodlums and smart-alecks who can’t see the point of finishing [...]
