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Cinema has been in existence now for more than the length of a very long human lifetime- and everything that can be done in it has been done- or pretty much so. Knowing a bit about film history spoils one for most of what is being produced these days.
I watched the first episode of Netflix's Ripley. I like Patricia Highsmith, I like Andrew Scott, I like luminous black and white cinematography; I even like a story that unrolls very, very slowly (I'm reading Balzac, ain't I?)....
But....
By the end I was thinking, "I've seen all this before, and it was 50 years ago, only then it said Antonioni on the label."
I watched the first episode of Netflix's Ripley. I like Patricia Highsmith, I like Andrew Scott, I like luminous black and white cinematography; I even like a story that unrolls very, very slowly (I'm reading Balzac, ain't I?)....
But....
By the end I was thinking, "I've seen all this before, and it was 50 years ago, only then it said Antonioni on the label."
