There’s a certain challenge that comes with watching epic movies, as even the ones that don’t intentionally serve as endurance tests demand a great deal of one’s time. There’s no cut-off runtime for something to qualify as an epic, but these larger-than-life films tend to hover around the three-hour-mark, or sometimes go even higher.
It’s probably a drama first and a fantasy movie second, but the blend of genres proves interesting, and Fanny and Alexander certainly has enough by way of runtime to do multiple things at once. The theatrical cut of the film flies by rather quickly for something just over three hours in length, but the extended miniseries version is surprisingly just as absorbing, and naturally gets to flesh out many of the side characters who are less well-defined in the theatrical cut.
It's a puzzle of a film, but an engaging and sometimes darkly funny one, which are things that can be said about many movies directed by Peter Greenaway. The filmmaker doesn’t usually tackle science fiction, though, which makes The Falls extra novel and valuable, with Greenaway putting a very different spin on what could, at least on the surface, be considered a post-apocalyptic disaster movie.
That’s all to say that A Brighter Summer Day works as a bit of a crime epic, and a fairly tragic one at that, all the while also shedding light on what it was like living in Taiwan during the early 1960s. Director Edward Yang drew from some personal experiences for the film, and it ranks as one of his best efforts overall .
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