Timecode (2000)
Country: US
Technical: col/DeLuxe 97m
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Danny Huston, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Mann, Julian Sands, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Synopsis:
The lives of a number of inter-connected characters at and around a film production company's offices are shadowed by four separate cameras simultaneously in four continuous takes.
Review:
...Not one, as has sometimes been claimed. This is an audacious attempt to make the viewer a more active participant in the filmmaking process, an editor as it were, having to decide at any given point which of the threads to follow, which box to watch. Sometimes one cannot help but try and glue oneself to two simultaneously, and the results are energising, if frustrating; the director helps by fading soundtracks in and out, but that rather negates the whole enterprise (his music, and Mahler's, are somewhat intrusive too). Aesthetically it's a bit like watching a set of surveillance cameras in the building, the pictures at times irritatingly small, though it does make a facile point about the voyeurism inherent in the medium. In summary it's a film best viewed on the big screen, then again on DVD with the subtitles on.
Country: US
Technical: col/DeLuxe 97m
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Danny Huston, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Mann, Julian Sands, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Synopsis:
The lives of a number of inter-connected characters at and around a film production company's offices are shadowed by four separate cameras simultaneously in four continuous takes.
Review:
...Not one, as has sometimes been claimed. This is an audacious attempt to make the viewer a more active participant in the filmmaking process, an editor as it were, having to decide at any given point which of the threads to follow, which box to watch. Sometimes one cannot help but try and glue oneself to two simultaneously, and the results are energising, if frustrating; the director helps by fading soundtracks in and out, but that rather negates the whole enterprise (his music, and Mahler's, are somewhat intrusive too). Aesthetically it's a bit like watching a set of surveillance cameras in the building, the pictures at times irritatingly small, though it does make a facile point about the voyeurism inherent in the medium. In summary it's a film best viewed on the big screen, then again on DVD with the subtitles on.
Country: US
Technical: col/DeLuxe 97m
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Danny Huston, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Mann, Julian Sands, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Synopsis:
The lives of a number of inter-connected characters at and around a film production company's offices are shadowed by four separate cameras simultaneously in four continuous takes.
Review:
...Not one, as has sometimes been claimed. This is an audacious attempt to make the viewer a more active participant in the filmmaking process, an editor as it were, having to decide at any given point which of the threads to follow, which box to watch. Sometimes one cannot help but try and glue oneself to two simultaneously, and the results are energising, if frustrating; the director helps by fading soundtracks in and out, but that rather negates the whole enterprise (his music, and Mahler's, are somewhat intrusive too). Aesthetically it's a bit like watching a set of surveillance cameras in the building, the pictures at times irritatingly small, though it does make a facile point about the voyeurism inherent in the medium. In summary it's a film best viewed on the big screen, then again on DVD with the subtitles on.