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Yesterday afternoon I watched OPENIGHTMARE and I found it well done (technically speaking), a big movie in the old style:
Excellent performance by the actors
The story is beautiful
The dialogues are beautiful, profound, and witty
Great direction and cinematography
BUT...
- Music always obsessive and too loud
- Endless duration (about 3 hours, of which 2 and a half hours of shot/reverse shot dialogues)
In the end, I left exhausted and worn out. Perhaps that was the sensation one was supposed to leave the cinema with? With balls shattered as if an H-bomb had exploded in your pants? Mmmhhhh, veeeery likely.
Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.
I had a "nightmare open up", so to speak...
But my rating is: 7 ...tending to 8.
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