Daily Archives: November 14, 2019

Wavelength (1967)

Wavelength
Directed by Michael Snow
Written by Michael Snow
1967/Canada/USA
First viewing/YouTube
One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

 

[box] Woman in fur coat: I just got here, and there’s a man lying on the floor, and I think he’s dead.[/box]

Neither cinema nor art in my opinion.  How many more of these things do I have to see before I die?

The above quote might lead you to believe there is a plot.  Not so.  This is 45 minutes of a camera zooming in on a window in a mostly empty room.  Occasionally people walk through.  One fell down.

Concept art does not entertain me.  Soundtrack starts out promisingly enough with John Lennon singing “Strawberry Fields”,  But no such luck.  Thereafter we are treated to at least half an hour of electronic noise.  You have been warned.