Pretty predictable plot. 25 years of the life of the main character in the record. Shooting in the style of recording on a videotape in motion, everything shakes the whole movie. Not so bad, but I don’t want to review it a second time. The picture is always twitching and by the end of the film you get tired.
Would you like to be able to go back to any period of your life and relive your first party, a warm family evening, a historic victory for your football team, a vibrant journey, or ordinary school or work routines? The main character of the film Max can do this, since from the age of 13 he has been filming his entire life on camera for a quarter of a century.
A little-known movie (less than 2,000 IMDB ratings) outside of France, Life on Fast-forward could have been shot anywhere in the world. The main characters live the stories faced by most people on this planet. The main feature and artistic find is that the film is a mounted cut of videos shot by the main character during 25 years of life. Through the eyes of the operator, we see aging parents, growing friends, having children and all the other events that inevitably happen over time. Separately, I want to note the soundtrack, which was spent a million euros (a quarter of the budget). It fits perfectly into history, refers to a specific time and reinforces the parallels you unwittingly draw with your life.
If you look at it, there is nothing outstanding in the film, neither in terms of acting, nor in terms of the plot, but it takes sincerity, soulfulness and warmth. I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie where my smile would barely come off my face. Probably, I’m a little biased, because also from a certain age I try to capture all the important moments in the photo, and many scenes are extremely recognizable, but I’m sure that everyone will recognize themselves in the story of Max and his friends, remember the carefree past and plunge into pleasant nostalgia.
8.5 out of 10
Colorful shots with foreign inclusions of interference of different tailoring. Looking into the past through the prism of the present. Rewinding life is sometimes easy. But seeing yourself as a different person is not so easy. After all, thoughts come along, passing memories. For some, this “rewinding” is not easy.
The film is positive, nostalgic, immature, humorous, teenage, adult. It is interesting to appreciate what a person is really interesting and memorable. After all, all these weekdays from 8 to 5 or shifts of 12 - all this monotony is immediately forgotten. Probably, for this purpose, employers arrange miniature photo shoots for employees at least a couple of times a year, so that they remember that they existed in the interval from 8 to 5 somewhere. But in the dry remnant of life, which remains in the memories, when the "water" of the text of life is removed, it will dry out. What is your Sahara?
Someone remembers the first love, another first sex, someone the first major victory of the national football team, experienced firsthand. Someone used something in a circle of friends. Such first moments are many in each at different moments of life, at different ages.
And your camera was on. Did your chamber eyes work? Did the brain record what was happening? Speech recorder of disasters, fiasco, joys, reproaches, births, loss, etc. worked?
Do you remember your first car trip after getting your driver’s license? Did you remember the first hurricane? Or maybe you’ve been to a rock band for the first time? And not one, but with a loved one? not one, but with a loved one?
Or you did something stupid, which at first was to your joy, then sharply broke your life, but after that you still settled down.
A film about a beautiful life where a lot of things happen. But it is harmful to watch our man. Where is Stalin looking? It is impossible to watch this, otherwise our man immediately rushes with his brain and then his body to the west into the enemy’s lair. Therefore, I decree: "Prohibit!" Then I turn around, kneel and plead with the KP: ‘Take me, take me back, take me back, take me back, the west, rotten and rotten, take me completely.’
It's a lovely movie. I'd like a movie cake for breakfast.
I wonder why there are so few reviews for this wonderful film. I can't even remember when I saw such a true but not black movie. You don't feel like you're watching the actors play. Everything is so close, as if you were there and this or your life or the lives of your close friends. I think every teenager who's about 30 or 40 years old has experienced all of this. The soundtrack just kills Brit-pop fans, and I'm shocked. What the characters listen to in the beginning, and then as they grow up, absolutely coincides with what I listened to, not a single joint did not find a single discrepancy. In general, if your youth fell at the beginning of zero, then you will be delighted.
At the very beginning, the film seemed very boring: hackneyed techniques - the main character behind the scenes, filming his life.
But the film takes its humanity and sincerity.
There are two main themes: love and dreams, what we wanted to become and what we have become.
Throughout the film, the main character shoots his friends, beloved girl and other important highlights.
Events happen within the framework of reality. And the main artistic technique is shooting on camera.
This is so naturally filmed that you involuntarily remember your life, your teenage period, first love, spent time with friends, parties, dreams, funny moments, disappointments.
I especially liked humor, just like in life, it feels like watching your own life rewind.
And also scenes from the life of the hero do not look far-fetched, but as if this is a slicing of stories from Instagram.
The fact that the film with such easy and direct techniques reflects our lives - it bribes. What we did not want to be, we became ourselves.
There is, as you know, a brilliant film (1999) by Vitaly Mansky - "Private Chronicles". Monologue. Out of a dozen or more private family newsreels from the days of advanced socialism, the filmmakers made, edited, glued together one story - the story of one average Soviet person.
History piercing and recognizable, born in the early 60s of the last century.
Today I wanted to watch some light French comedy and I ran into a clever and subtle, brilliantly made French film (2019) ' Life on Rewind' which is made about the same as the Mansky film.
Approximately, but not at all! Yes, the authors of the film are viewing ' rewind ' newsreel of the life of one, individual French man - Anthony Marciano, who is now, by the way, only 40 years old.
Only the viewer should not buy it. The film is not a documentary at all! He is cheerful and sometimes sad, sometimes funny and, of course, about love too, but - most importantly! - this is such a brilliant stylization for a private family newsreel that breathtaking!
And you know that the great French cinema is alive and never died!
Comparison with the film Mansky - comes when watching the film, and on the tips of the fingers, knocking now on the keyboard, of course: still understand that the cheerful Soviet newsreels carried with them and stuffy and gloomy aroma of that era, and in the film Marciano also enough subtle notes of drama, but this subtle drama of a completely different kind.
It comes from the fact that life moves naturally, that people grow up, fall in love and break up, start families, get old, make mistakes. . .
Everyone has had a huge number of memorable moments in life, but, unfortunately, our brain tends to forget about both the bad and the good - that is why our parents have a bunch of photo albums in which reminders of memorable events are collected. Of course, with the advent of the number, it all migrated to computers and faceless folders called "Disassemble (27)". But these are still memories.
The protagonist of the film “Life on rewind” spent his entire conscious life with a video camera, recording almost everything that happens to him: happiness, sadness, sadness, joy – it’s like a huge library with all the memories that you just need to arrange in the right order, if you want to plunge into the past.
A very similar idea was in the movie Click. With a remote for life, where Adam Sandler’s hero could rewind his life back to look at what happened with a different, more mature look. Here and here the main character begins from the very beginning to analyze his life on the shelves, reliving a couple of decades, noting where, how and why he acted one way or another.
It's a very good idea, because when we know our past, we know ourselves, and we don't even need a psychologist. We are simply witnessing the formation of an ordinary person who makes mistakes, lives, seeks himself and his meaning in life. Perhaps someone even recognizes himself in his face, or among his friends.
The pitch is great! Slicing from the events of the past, which are familiar even to the inexperienced viewer, please with their lives. Humor was very pleasant – high-quality and moderate. And even though the actors are unfamiliar to me, but they fit perfectly into this narrative.
After watching it, I immediately wanted to open my archive, walk along the corridors of my memory and be a little sad about the past. Finally, something good and without too much vanilla!