Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)

I had seen this movie before...a long time ago. I knew the general story, but couldn't remember the details.

It was a good movie. I don't have much to say other than that. Good story, good acting and it wasn't 3 hours long. :)

At the time, this was apparently a fairly controversial film. It was looked at being violent (possibly gratuitously so). It's one of the disadvantages of watching that 40 years later - today, I don't bat an eye at the violence.

It won an Oscar for cinematography - and I can see why. It is beautifully filmed.

In doing my reading on the movie, this was offered to two of the 'French New Wave' directors - Francois Truffaut and Jean Luc Goddard. And the film does have the look of one of the New Wave films - the kind of choppy, disjointed visuals.

One word to describe 'Bonnie and Clyde': Criminal

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