The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
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Directed by | Wim Wenders |
Screenplay by | Wim Wenders |
Based on | Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez by Peter Handke |
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Cinematography | Benoît Debie |
Edited by | Beatrice Babin |
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Running time | 97 minutes[1] |
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Language | French |
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (
Plot
A man (Reda Kateb) and a woman (Sophie Semin) are sitting on chairs in a garden outside of Paris on a bright summer day. All day long they talk about life and love.
Cast
- Reda Kateb as the man
- Sophie Semin as the woman
- Nick Cave as himself
- Peter Handke as the gardener
- Jens Harzer as the writer
Reception
The film garnered a 14% approval rating from 7 critics, with an average rating of 3.2 out of 10, on Rotten Tomatoes.[3] Metacritic provides a score of 32 out of 100 from 6 critics, which indicates "generally unfavorable" reviews.[4]
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 2 stars out of 5, calling it "an inert and exasperatingly supercilious two-hander: self-conscious, tedious, with a dated and cumbersome theatricality, tricked out in a 3D presentation that adds nothing to its dull stereoscopic tableaux of an idealised French garden outside Paris."[5] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter praised Virginie Hernvann's production design.[6]
Ben Croll of IndieWire gave the film a grade of D, saying, "I think it could live on as a curiosity, as an answer to the question, 'What is the most uniquely spoiler-impervious film since Andy Warhol aimed his camera at the Empire State Building and let it roll for eight hours?'"[7] Guy Lodge of Variety said, "Even for Wenders completists, the film is of mostly academic interest: an intermediate entry in the filmmaker's ongoing investigation into the possibilities of stereoscopic imagery, thus far deployed to far more vibrant effect in his documentaries than in his narrative work."[8]
References
- ^ "Venezia 73". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- ^ "Venice Film Festival 2016". Deadline. 28 July 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ^ "The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- CBS Interactive. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (1 September 2016). "The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez review – not Wim Wenders' finest hour". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Young, Deborah (1 September 2016). "'The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez' ('Les beaux jours d'Aranjuez'): Venice Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Croll, Ben (2 September 2016). "'The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez' Review: Wim Wenders Delivers the Ultimate Movie About Nothing". IndieWire. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Lodge, Guy (1 September 2016). "Film Review: 'The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez'". Variety. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
External links
- The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez at IMDb