Marat/Sade

Unique and fascinating form. The chaos of the performance is captured beautifully by the photography, which is marvelously composed but always off-kilter. There is a seething intensity with a playful undercurrent, and the songs are quite good as well. However, I didn't care much for the content. Too talky and preachy, too political and philosophical, like the worst of Godard. And the acting is entirely too "ACTING!". I'm glad I saw such an original work, but I can't say I enjoyed it very much.

Can be seen as the seed from which grew films including Dogville, The Baby of Macon, and La Commune. Like those works, it's intriguing and impressive if also a bit difficult to get through (less so than the Von Trier or Watkins films though). If you can handle Godard in his Marxist phase you should be able to get at least some enjoyment out of this.

Perhaps the most politically bleak film I've seen. A precursor to Salo in that respect.

Seemed promisingly nutty at first, but as it progressed I realized I was being had. It is knowingly confusing, deliberately obscure in its references to Marat's supposed biography, and above all jarringly pretentious in its cacophonous mix of pseudu-intellectual babble about politics with random slogan-shouting. By the second reel I thought I would go insane myself if I heard "Long live Marat!!" one more time. Even the musical bits which first seemed enjoyably off-kilter, got grating later.

Amazing. Comrades, experience the chaos.

Excellent. You won't forget this one anytime soon. The actors seem to be breathing down your neck

Title indeed says it all, as does the plot outline. One for the "Lost in translation" box. Surely must work better as a play, if anybody cares.

Very similar to Salo yet adds layers to narration reflexively. German word "Geschichte" stems from "to happen" but it also includes "Schicht", layer. We have a theater where people watch a prison (history, determination?) in which gentry directs Sade who directs mad people. Marat seems to be the most naive where he believes he can break the cyclical violence and domination of history. Very very pessimistic and somewhat unnecessarily long yet a very good example of 'analytical'-reflexive cinema.

88.000

Incredible. The final shot is perfect. Very like a play but with incredible choice of shots and amazing acting. Yeah it's political but it's not all political and idk it's amazing

81.500