antcol8 I'm looking forward to Stranger by the Lake. Saw the preview, looks like Guiraudie learned something in the last 10 years. Focus, focus! Doesn't matter what you focus on so much. Just focus. Lots of propositions in this movie. Some of them are sexy. Some (not many) of them are funny. Some are yummy - the Golden Hour seemed to show up a lot, and the lighting in general was pretty cool. But to talk about Magical Realism or Surrealism in terms of this film seems to overstate the case. It's more like an active but unruly imagination in love with cinema, and all of its coolest moments - can we make the frogs rain down like they did in Magnolia?He thinks he's making Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but he's really making The President's Analyst.

gpadillo One of the hardest things for humans to do is to explain a dream and make it interesting. Herein lies the biggest problem of "No Rest for the Brave." Rare is the viewer who will make it to the end of this oddly beautiful but frustrating film. First, for the non-native French speaker, this is a film heavy on the dialog – lots of it and it comes at you machine gun fast which translates into being forced to read constantly and as fast as you can.In a nutshell "No Rest" tells the story of a boy – Basille (also with an alter-ego called Hector) a 16 year old who believes he's approaching the penultimate sleep – one more night with his eyes closed and he will die. So, sleep deprived, he is forever in a state of semi-consciousness living more in a dream state than the real world. It becomes increasingly difficult (if not downright impossible) to figure out what is real and what isn't. Does Basille really kill an entire village? Is he having an affair with a 60 year old man? Does he really drive around in an airplane he can't get off the ground? What is the significance of "little red balls?" Is there really an improper "season" for eating foie gras? If one allows themselves to fall into this world, the difference between reality and dreaming ultimately doesn't matter.Director Alain Guiraudie creates a beautiful, surreal existential plane wherein the Bassile and those who populate his life (and dreams) reside. There are images that are breathtakingly beautiful – such as Basille's red plane's attempted take off, or the image of him wildly, violently dancing 70's punk style to an acoustic guitar song in a brightly lit pool hall.I thought I would gouge my eyes out after 20 minutes or so, but once I "let go" and just watched it on its own terms and fell in love with this oddball, beautiful picture.

NateManD I just bought the DVD of "No Rest for the Brave", and I got to say it's quite unique. Director Alain Guiraudie likes to create surrealism with every day settings and situations and slightly distort them. His focus on colors grabs the viewers attention. The film starts off kind of slow, because their is a lot of dialog. The main character is afraid to go to sleep, because he is convinced he will never wake up and is afraid he will die. Then strange things start to happen, a whole village is killed and he could be responsible, but are the events happening a dream? He's sexually obsessed with an older man, has discussions on life with a folk singer farmer and many other odd characters. Then it gets to a point where the viewer can't tell what's happening in the the main character's life or in his dreams. It seems nothing much exciting is happening in his life, so his adventures take place mostly in his dreams. So the film is kind of like a french existential Donnie Darko as filmed by Godard. It's definitely a film you have to think about. I personally enjoyed it.

spendabel This movie is about a boy who thinks he will never wake up if he fall asleep again. And this makes him for some reason shoot down the population of a small village and then go on the run. Then the movie just doesn't makes any sense anymore and after a hour i walked out, realizing i didn't care at all how it ended. It wasn't worth it.Although the story seems interesting there was nothing in this movie that kept any standard. I could have stayed to the end if it had been beautiful shot or something similar, but no. A huge disappointment!