Movies Like More. In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pan Movie Reviews Cyrano. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Spider-Man: No Way Home. Jungle Cruise. Space Jam: A New Legacy. Snake Eyes: G. Joe Origins. The drug experience is basically internal, and no movie has really succeeded in reproducing it visually. Some, like " The Trip " and " Easy Rider ," try to reproduce acid trips by messing around with the camera.
That doesn't work and gets boring after a while. It watches the trips from outside. That's a relief but not a solution. The movie comes to us provincials, by the way, bearing a heavy weight of praise from New York critics who are apparently hard to bore.
Perhaps Schroeder's reputation preceded him; he's an influential young critic for Cahlers du Cinema, and produced the anthology film "Six in Paris.
Several passages are destroyed by nervous editing; the love scenes, in particular, seem truncated and uncertain. That is not the fault, however, of Mimsy Farmer , who doesn't miss a one of them or allow us to miss much of her. Miss Farmer has previously been seen in cheap motorcycle pictures; it is a surprise to discover how well she can act.
Instead of playing the love scenes in the conventional American voluptuous and gasping style, she remains very freaky, brittle, and almost neurotically repressed during them. Her scenes are the best in the film.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of other scenes that go nowhere, and we quickly get bored with the untalented Klaus Grunberg as her German boyfriend. Even in the love scenes, he's only following orders. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Mimsy Farmer as Estelle. Before leaving the hotel, Estelle steals some money and a pack from Wolf. Soon, Stefan learns that Estelle had stolen doses of heroin and he decides to try one fix with her, in the beginning of his trip to hell.
When two people love, one always loves more. Did you know Edit. Trivia The soundtrack was composed by Pink Floyd. Goofs David Gilmour's last name is misspelled "Gilmore" in the opening credits. Connections Featured in Electric Slide User reviews 44 Review. Top review. I would be interested to hear from the director, Barbet Schroeder, as to why he decided to make More his first film, and more specifically what his interest in hippies- or rather this form of the Euro-hippie paradise- and about their demise.
The film is, at least, true enough to keep one interested, but in its own kind of truth it's strange, biased. It's a given heroin aka, "Horse" is awful stuff, rotten, the conclusion for many a dumb-headed drug user that sees that as the be-all-end-all, because it basically is: after that everything else stops, that becomes the life, and it's either a continuous run for more of the same or death.
More starts off as something concerning a romance between a New York girl and a German man, but it becomes something else, for better or worse sometimes both in the same scene. It's basically about two "young" people, Estelle and Stefan, who meet in a city where Stefan has come as a sort of wanderer away from his home country.
She's wandering too, sort of, and is maybe too friendly with a big-time pusher named Wolf. They end up on a remote island somewhere nearby and, after a somewhat daring grab for some "horse" by Estelle, they also find a pad in the form of a seemingly remoter house along the seashore.
Schroeder's comment on youth and sex and drugs isn't too simplistic, which makes the film actually lucid and intelligent so many years later. It's both direct and subtle, more about the characters and then about the fact that what he's depicting could in other hands just be a propagandistic hippie-exploitation picture. Perhaps most pleasantly, and this is just a guess, Schroeder uses as inspiration the sort of long sequence from Bergman's Summer with Monika: two kids in an inexorable connection, some good some definitely not so good, set against too?
On the one hand, I should mention that there are problems, some big ones in fact. The performances aren't very convincing throughout; a few scenes strike some power or have the actors in a good connection with one another, but Klaus Grumberg overplays himself even if he is an ornery German by nature in that case I would've preferred Klaus Kinski in the part to make it crazier but deep enough for the subject matter as does Farmer to her own degree. On the other hand, there are two big things going for it: Nestor Almendros, the great cinematographer i.
Days of Heaven is DP and is a big boost for a first time director like Schroeder. Nearly every image is seen with an awesome purpose or artistry, be it a shot of the cliffs by the sea or sun or something as simple as the seemingly natural light of a room. The other thing is Pink Floyd, probably the main reason I and many others have heard of the film in the first place years before I knew really who Schroeder was I saw the "More" soundtrack whenever I looked up Pink Floyd albums.
It's very good music throughout, occasionally the mind-blowing variety that gives them the reputation they deserve. Some of it, too, is a little tedious, even as it is a movie that concerns free love and lots of drugs and sometimes both at the same time.
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