After this, my second Hal Hartley venture, i'm quite impressed at how Hartley has crafted a unique style for himself, but start to think that that style is perhaps too eccentric and therefore gimmicky, and could begin to wear thin very quickly.
Hartley's style combines larger than life dialogue and performances, philosophising for comical purposes, a postmodern feeling of meaninglessness and random scenes of violence/disgust for shock purposes. All set to a synthesised piano score, which creates the same "can this be serious?" feeling in the viewer as the dialogue and performances.
Ambition is a succession of incredible scenes with a set of rules for reality all its own, as in many postmodern works like Lynch's Mulholland Dr.
In the end, though, its really just a sketch, a short story - but a fairly evocative one. Worth catching, if you can catch it for free, but i certainly wouldn't pay money to see it.
Hartley's style combines larger than life dialogue and performances, philosophising for comical purposes, a postmodern feeling of meaninglessness and random scenes of violence/disgust for shock purposes. All set to a synthesised piano score, which creates the same "can this be serious?" feeling in the viewer as the dialogue and performances.
Ambition is a succession of incredible scenes with a set of rules for reality all its own, as in many postmodern works like Lynch's Mulholland Dr.
In the end, though, its really just a sketch, a short story - but a fairly evocative one. Worth catching, if you can catch it for free, but i certainly wouldn't pay money to see it.