81.500

Irritating. I stopped watching after 40 minutes.

Perhaps the most politically bleak film I've seen. A precursor to Salo in that respect.

Excellent. You won't forget this one anytime soon. The actors seem to be breathing down your neck

Amazing. Comrades, experience the chaos.

Seemed promisingly nutty at first, but as it progressed I realized I was being had. It is knowingly confusing, deliberately obscure in its references to Marat's supposed biography, and above all jarringly pretentious in its cacophonous mix of pseudu-intellectual babble about politics with random slogan-shouting. By the second reel I thought I would go insane myself if I heard "Long live Marat!!" one more time. Even the musical bits which first seemed enjoyably off-kilter, got grating later.

Unique and fascinating form. The chaos of the performance is captured beautifully by the photography, which is marvelously composed but always off-kilter. There is a seething intensity with a playful undercurrent, and the songs are quite good as well. However, I didn't care much for the content. Too talky and preachy, too political and philosophical, like the worst of Godard. And the acting is entirely too "ACTING!". I'm glad I saw such an original work, but I can't say I enjoyed it very much.