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• Cineaste De Notre Temps (1:06:53)

Not sure how Gary is able to see the Criterion image as "richer and looked improved on my system" while it shares the same restoration.

I'm not the only struggling in trying to distinguish visual superiority of Criterion's release?

TMDaines wrote:I'm not the only struggling in trying to distinguish visual superiority of Criterion's release?

I don't think so.

This is certainly the best film Criterion has released of Guitry, but only in the sense it shows him having learnt some basic skills and not appearing as a character himself. This is not a good movie. It is also filled to the brim with ridiculous filler like a law conversation half an hour in that does nothing for the film except make it less interesting. The worst of these comes first. Compromising nearly a full tenth of the film it features Guitry doing the one thing he does: talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and then I died and talking and talking and talking. He essentially fellates the whole cast and crew in the form of the title credits only without whatever interest the suggests.

Like I said before this shows some basic talent as a film and has enjoyable moments (I'd even go so far as to disagree with the above and say this is a two joke film), but the pacing murders it. For example there's a theoretically very funny scene where Simon is explaining the crime to a lawyer and it is done in a matter of fact way with suggestions of how best to tell the tale. This is a very funny idea, but the execution is terrible.