mrdonleone Review of Les mille et une mains

Les mille et une mains (1973)

Hitchcock, Tarantino and Kenneth Anger meet with Bruce Conner in this down to earth new wave realism flick

[4/10 · 7 September 2022]

All movie long you're waiting for a promise which was given at the very beginning of this flick, which happens sometimes in movies going slow at first and then ending up in a culmination of violence and gore underlined with shock as are for instance Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill vol 1; yet this movie here which seems to have borrowed many of its effects from great avant-garde masters such as Kenneth Anger and Bruce Conner before its being really does not deliver in its ending. As with a good Alfred Hitchcock-movie like Vertigo and Saboteur you expect these random events to lead somewhere; here, however, there is no such thing as the so-called 'twist' seems to take place out of image and quite some people appear without major function to the story such as a mad person who ultimately adds nothing to the film but humor -which one would accept if not only that his ultimate demise was unasked for-. In total, a disappointing film that has nothing to offer but the beautiful images of the wonders of Morocco -but a plane ticket to the country is worth its money whereas the entrance price to see this movie does not-.