It looked good and all that, and at times it seemed like everyone involved knew and understood something of Kafka's life and works...but at other times it so spectucularly mis-captures Kafka's ideas it's mind boggling.
The screaming laughing chasi...(read more) ng-guy with the Roger Corman shit on his face, was ri-god-damn-diculous, and I couldnt help laughing every time this guys on screen.
Jeremy Irons brings some nervous charm to the role and at the very, very, end does look eeiriely like Kafka, and Sodergberg's direction is decent (not amazing)...a little above average at it's best moments.
The story of individuality vs. control, is a very, very simplistic look at Kafka's writing, and in this film specifically a really, really, bad sci-fi cliche, that most saturday mourning cartoons don't even use anymore.
I wanted to like this cus, I like Steven Soderberg, I like Franz Kafka, and I don't mind Jeremy Irons, but all together, at once, it's just don't add up to a hill of beans. It aspires to Naked Lunch levels of mixing, fiction and fact, but it doesn't feel like this movie had a clear sense of either. Dissapointing.
This movie is cool. It's even beter than I thought it was going to be. It's something of an amalgamation of different Kafka stories with bits of biography. Soderbergh did a rather good job of making a Kafkian feel to the film. I recommend it and as someone who's read everything Kafka has ever written, was initially opposed to Kafka related films, but this is a good one.
Well I just remembered I think I saw this when I was in high school, and remember some of it...although I seem to recall Alex Guinness being in Kafka, and I don't see him in the "cast box". So hm, I need to this this...
Le film est original. Foquer mais bon. C'est vrai que la dimension scenaristique est tres bien traiter dans ce film. Deplus que le coter technique est tout a fait justifier. Ce qui est rare .. tres rare. Mais S. Soderbergh est un grand realisateur et il c'est tres le demontrer avec ce grand film.
Anyone who has seen "The Trial" With Anthony Perkins and Orson Wells will easily see the similarities between this work and the adaptation of the famous Franz Kafka novel. It has a strangely, un-Kafka-like ending, but the story is definitely intriguing enough to warrant a rental
while he destroyed his carreer growling out "time to die" in the d and d movie, jeremy irons has been involved in some great movies, namely Kafka. based loosely on Franz Kafka's works 'the castle' and 'the trial', as well as his own life, this film noir captures something truly disgusting. something that no one should ever have to face. the mundane. the absurdly mundane. we face it every day, even welcome it as an anchoring force in our lives. but kafka obviously despised it, and that distaste is preformed greatly by jeremy irons. watch it sometime, it's one of sodenbergh's better films, yet no one seems to even know it exists.
Stylized, ultra-paranoid noir film incorporates biographical and fictional elements from Kafka's life and writings alike (kind of like Cronenberg's treatment of Willaim Burrough's Naked Lunch). Jeremy Irons is great as the lead character.
Jeremy Irons is great in this movie and the movie itself tends to be visually interesting and feels like a slow moving nightmare and while things do happen in this movie, none of it is compelling. People who enjoy David Lynch will probably enjoy this.
Jeremy Irons plays all the nuances of Kafka's timid and fragile victim of a cruel judiciary run by perverts and confidence tricksters. The jarring and unsettlingly lurid long shadows of the kafkaesque landscape, Steven Soderbergh captures effortlessly.
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