A small disappointment for the weekend. I was searching for this special film a lot, finally found it, but after watch it I'm not happy at all.
At first: Why it is a special one? After this week's booooring arias sung by Sweeney Todd I wanted to prove myself there are good ones which are using a music in peculiar way. Moreover Daft Punk is one of my favorite bands so everything was given to have a nice compensation after Burton's musical. It seems I'm gonna stay with the new film of the Coen's which deliberately refuses every kind of diegetic or extra-diegetic music...
Don't misunderstand me, there is nothing wrong with the music here. But only a small remark: there isn't any DF music during the 80 minutes. The "story" (the thematic?) is more from them than the music, which sounds closer to the other French duo's, the Air's world (from Haydn to Sebastien Tellier).
A pro pos story. The first scene: We have two robot-like guys, who are getting in an oldish black cool sportcar, and start to eat the miles under the sunny Californian sky. Looks like a road movie, and it is, according that it used to be that the heroes (here are Robot Heroes as the credits say) are hiding or searching something. Here it seems the latter case: they are desperately searching the ways to be 'Human' (yes, the licence plate of their car..). Anyway, I could tell more (wouldn't last too long), but it's just not worth according to this definitely non-narrative film. Then what else? Good question.
During the sterile movie's 70 percent the two robots just walking. I bet more than Irimiás and Petrina in Béla Tarr's more than 7hrs long Sátántangó (Satan's Tango). Ok, there is nothing's wrong with this one if they arrive somewhere, ... somehow. But - sorry that I'm telling you - they aren't.
Let's look at it as a video clip. It's a bit long this time, a Daft Punk without DF music, but at least you gonna learn how a robot can destroy itself if cannot reach its self-destruction button.
If you're a Daft Punk fan maybe shouldn't watch it. If you hate those guys (Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo), it's really something for you to collect better argument against the fans. Better listen to them than watch.
5/10
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