Saturday, February 13, 2010

Goodbye Dragon Inn

China

A decrepit old movie theater plays its last show (a Hong Kong period epic) and then closes...presumably forever.

I tried to watch this a few years ago but gave up because I thought it was a contender for the most boring movie ever made. It still is. Long, artfully composed takes of people doing not much...watching the movie, walking around the building, watching each other. There wasn't one word of dialogue for the first 45 minutes.

Cinema for the comatose.

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