Comments on: It Was Only A Christmas Tale

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:44:43 +0000

I don’t think that would have helped. And fireworks kind of count as explosions.

By: xyzzzz__

xyzzzz__ — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:22:33 +0000

“But two and a half hours later (TWO AND A HALF HOURS LATER) you are left with an overwhelming sense of Why?”

They couldn’t afford choreographed car crashes and explosions that’s why…

By: pete

pete — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:12:40 +0000

Did I say it was bad? In what universe does hilarrious translate as bad??? (or properly spelt?)

By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît

a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:56:52 +0000

there is no bad french hiphop

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:47:12 +0000

Wheras I have liked previous Desplechin films (Kings And Queen was terrific). And I do appreciate the stabs at experimentalism in this film (good puppet based opening, some bizarre use in music to change tone etc). But the length of the film lunges towards some sort of significance that it does not really earn.

Oh, hilarrious French hip-hop scenes in it too.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:56:07 +0000

I had much the same response to Mr Desplechin’s earlier film Comment je me suis disputé (ma vie sexuelle), which is ALMOST THREE HOURS LONG. I should have been tipped off by the unending title, but it was by far my least favourite film of that particular Film Festival.