After the dissapointing Duelist, where Lee's visuals outweighed the story was happy to see M is his most fantastic film yet. M is a mystery, but no murder mystery, it's a love mystery in a dreamlike world. Lee uses his artistic style perfectly, capturing those bizarre, surreal m...( read more)
Absolutely beautiful! Brilliantly assembled simple story of a writer in search of his muse, told with rich colors and lots of black, dream logic, humor, inspired editing, and a soundtrack that matches it beat for beat. I wanted to applaud almost every scene. Arty without pretensi...( read more)
It felt like a two-hour music video in terms of the sophistication of its themes, the coherence of the narrative and the lushness of the visuals. The director clearly has a good eye for colour and light, and draws a lot of inspiration from manga. Unfortunately, he crosses the lin...( read more)
I expected something completely different going in and it was a little tough to follow in the beginning. Once it kicked in tho, it was an enjoyable story. Not too sure the highly stylized look was necessary, but I guess it worked out okay.
I think the cinematography was pretty cool, but the story was pretty bland. At a Q & A after a screening of this movie the only question the director really answered for me was that he was making a movie completely opened to the viewer's interpretation. Which would be fine except...( read more)
