tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521264355802891201.post6050606686034984083..comments2023-09-22T10:43:18.826-07:00Comments on ...this pig's alley: Late Style in TRIPLE AGENTArthur S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07563254207473213494noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521264355802891201.post-68488503486684942282010-12-17T11:51:36.145-08:002010-12-17T11:51:36.145-08:00Good work Arthur! It's a lovely and very surpr...Good work Arthur! It's a lovely and very surprising film. Rohmer is fascianted by the intrigue of espionage, but his heart belongs to the hideously mistreated wife -- an innocent crushed beneath the wheel of history.DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521264355802891201.post-48576137136383992692010-12-17T11:50:12.113-08:002010-12-17T11:50:12.113-08:00Excellent piece. This film, like all of Rohmer'...Excellent piece. This film, like all of Rohmer's period works, provides problems in reconciling it to the more familiar "modern" films he made. And yet it's distinctly Rohmerian, in its dialogue, and in its seeming directness, which masks all the complicated thoughts and emotions going on beneath the characters' seemingly idle talk. The deeper currents of these characters are glimpsed only sporadically and tangentially, and Fyodor in particular is a mystery because we're always forced to ask, like his wife, how much of what he says is bullshit and how much is justified bragging. It's a remarkable portrait of how manipulative one can be with what one says and doesn't say - which is of course the overriding theme of Rohmer's entire oeuvre, although usually the deceit and manipulation is in a romantic rather than a political context.Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.com