Love & Pop

[Jasper Sharp]

> We can argue about the merits of that film, but frankly there are too many

> directors out there who use this style simply because it is the fashion,
because 
> it  works well with foreign film festival directors, or because of certain

> ideologies (the "Japaneseness" of Maborosi or Sleeping Man). 

And because it saves a lot of time and money in the editing room!

> That's why I found _Timeless Melodies_, for instance, a completely
uninteresting 
>film.  

This film represented, for me,  the lowest point in Amsterdam's recent 'No
Cherry Blossoms' season and probably the most tedious film I've seen all
year.
Actually, a lot of the films in this season used this faux-verite approach.
In some cases it works well, but its always useful to have a story first. 

Jasper Sharp