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Frere de Lupe. Or something like that. Super Duper Loopy is more like it. Bien sur, I am talking about the smash, martial arts film from France, Brotherhood of the Wolf. I went to see this film at a 10:50 show at the Metreon with my movie pal, Sal. Someone should have warned us it was a two and a half hour movie.
Yes I was praising long movies after seeing Lord of the Rings, but that movie made sense. My mind was spinning by the second half of this movie. I can only describe it as The Last Mohican meets Dances with Wolves meets Crouching Tiger meets Eyes Wide Shut IN FRENCH!!
Arghhh.
It's the Eyes Wide Shut part that was really annoying. I mean does it have to be cult with masks?
No. The answer is no, party people.
And the wolf? Well...you think it's gonna be some metaphorical wolf. Some high minded representation of the French Spirit of Revolution - but in fact it more accurately resembles a homework assignment assemblage by some angry first year art school student. I mean come on - just like in Final Fantasy - computerized crap looks amazingly crap like. Merde!
And when the 300 pound guy behind me starting yelling "Kill the bitch!" when a surprisingly resilient epileptic gypsy woman kept getting up from knife wounds to inflict her crazy eyes on the native american "savage", we all felt his pain.
In short I would say - sneak into the first half hour of this movie - cause it looks great. But like a lot of french foods, it's a little overdone and kinda fatty.
-Yours,
Bewley
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