This movie is 30 years old. Most of the people who have seen it, did it 30 years ago. This movie is quite difficult to find those days, so that's why few young person have seen it.
I saw this movie minutes ago. I haven't been much impressed by this movie. It is a slow, silent (i mean no dialogue) movie. This is not a wrong thing, but it is not really well exploited. No dialog means that actors must be really expressives : They must be able to communicate their emotions through their faces, their look... Unfortunatly, the children are quite poor actors : They just don't express anything. They look a bit like automatons. The women expresses happiness, sadness, and suffering. She's by far, the best actor of the film. The father isn't showing much emotion. He seems to watch and thinking about what he's watching or doing.
The movie seems to deal with human condition : hard work, hard life, sadness,... The vision of this movie is very special. The family is a simple family who lives alone on an island seperated from the civilization. They live on the plants they're making grow by themselves. That kind of family looks much more like a farmer family or a working family (like in the 19th century). That type of family isn't a family of the 20th century, or of the 21th century. The film is dealing with this subject as if it was some kind of universal fact for the humans. Luckily times are changing, and this movie will be forgotten with those times. Only a few people works as farmers, or workers. This movie don't have no more the strengh it could have had a few years ago.
The film is very simple, and quite original (no dialog,...). I guess this movie is much more better in memory than when you see it : Two persons commented it, and said "a perfect movie". Those two persons saw it 30 years ago. I'm almost convinced that if those persons see it one more time, they would be really desappointed. I saw this movie because mature persons have recommended it to me (it was a famous movie in 1962 in France). This movie is quite over-rated in my humble opinion, because it is badly growing old, but it's still an interesting movie.
I saw this movie minutes ago. I haven't been much impressed by this movie. It is a slow, silent (i mean no dialogue) movie. This is not a wrong thing, but it is not really well exploited. No dialog means that actors must be really expressives : They must be able to communicate their emotions through their faces, their look... Unfortunatly, the children are quite poor actors : They just don't express anything. They look a bit like automatons. The women expresses happiness, sadness, and suffering. She's by far, the best actor of the film. The father isn't showing much emotion. He seems to watch and thinking about what he's watching or doing.
The movie seems to deal with human condition : hard work, hard life, sadness,... The vision of this movie is very special. The family is a simple family who lives alone on an island seperated from the civilization. They live on the plants they're making grow by themselves. That kind of family looks much more like a farmer family or a working family (like in the 19th century). That type of family isn't a family of the 20th century, or of the 21th century. The film is dealing with this subject as if it was some kind of universal fact for the humans. Luckily times are changing, and this movie will be forgotten with those times. Only a few people works as farmers, or workers. This movie don't have no more the strengh it could have had a few years ago.
The film is very simple, and quite original (no dialog,...). I guess this movie is much more better in memory than when you see it : Two persons commented it, and said "a perfect movie". Those two persons saw it 30 years ago. I'm almost convinced that if those persons see it one more time, they would be really desappointed. I saw this movie because mature persons have recommended it to me (it was a famous movie in 1962 in France). This movie is quite over-rated in my humble opinion, because it is badly growing old, but it's still an interesting movie.