<PERSON> on the Beach
And what sort of story shall we hear? Ah, it will be a familiar story...
Crazy how 90% of this is “just” people/objects/shapes/phrases both semantic and musical moving through space and time very precisely/slowly (there’s a reason the cast is sporting wristwatches - I can’t imagine any other productions make the performers this much of a cog in an elaborate machine) and 20% of it is somehow the most beautiful, lucid and emotional art ever made by anyone. No, no, that’s not 110% (although at this length it might as well be), it adds up to 100, it’s just that 10 percent of it is both! When the line goes __\|... oh man! Would love to see this staged one day, of course, but I also think there’s something to be said for a proper film adaptation rather than just filming a performance - it’s gonna be a fundamentally different experience all the same, why not actually try to meaningfully translate it? 306