I mean, the director knows that he made a grueling film to watch, and in fact this perfectly summarizes my experience, I barely made it to the end of the viewing without falling asleep. This concept could best be rendered with an exhausting length.Įxhausting. The film contains a subtext on the fatigue of living experienced by certain individuals whose existence is devoid of planning. And it’s probably intentional! Let me quote Mr. Actually, it would be easy to do since the film is a series of random scenes one after the other with no real order, no story arc, and no characters’ development whatsoever. Despite that, I found that the movie dragged a lot, so much so that I would have gladly cut at least 40 minutes. I saw the theatrical cut which is just two hours and 20 minutes long. Let me explain.įirst of all, let me specify that I haven’t seen the director’s cut lasting two hours and 52 minutes. Now that I’ve seen it, well… I don’t know if I can write it, being Italian and a cinema lover, but I didn’t like it very much. Until yesterday, I could only respond with an embarrassed smile, as I hadn’t seen that 2013 movie. I’m Italian but I live abroad and every time somebody starts talking about cinema, people look at me and says something about Paolo Sorrentino and The Great Beauty.
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