No Rest for the Brave (2004)

Overrated

Just so...so bad

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I'm looking forward to Stranger by the Lake. Saw the preview, looks like Guiraudie learned something in the last 10 years. Focus, focus! Doesn't matter what you focus on so much. Just focus. Lots of propositions in this movie. Some of them are sexy. Some (not many) of them are funny. Some are yummy - the Golden Hour seemed to show up a lot, and the lighting in general was pretty cool. But to talk about Magical Realism or Surrealism in terms of this film seems to overstate the case. It's more like an active but unruly imagination in love with cinema, and all of its coolest moments - can we make the frogs rain down like they did in Magnolia?He thinks he's making Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but he's really making The President's Analyst.

It seems that Jean-Luc Godard still has a lot to answer for. Some 60 years after his Brainless got the Pseuds into such a lather young filmmakers are still finding that off-the-wall, outre, call it what you will remains as good a substitute for talent for them as it did for him. This time around one Alain Guiraudie has come up with a scenario in which a guy named Basile - or it COULD be Hector - gets it into his head that if he falls asleep he will never wake up and - I'm guessing here and your guess is as good as mine - in the throes of sleep deprivation appears to undergo the type of hallucinations he could just as easily acquire via substance abuse. Whether he did actually massacre an entire small village, have an affair with a 60 year-old man, fly a red plane abortively, etc is really academic because like Godard before him Guiraudie has either not learned or has chosen to deliberately ignore Rule #1. Entertain the audience. Academics will cream in their pants over this one because it's open to so many interpretations it'll keep them writing papers and lecturing for years. On the other hand the non-academic film-goer will take one look and say merde.

I just bought the DVD of "No Rest for the Brave", and I got to say it's quite unique. Director Alain Guiraudie likes to create surrealism with every day settings and situations and slightly distort them. His focus on colors grabs the viewers attention. The film starts off kind of slow, because their is a lot of dialog. The main character is afraid to go to sleep, because he is convinced he will never wake up and is afraid he will die. Then strange things start to happen, a whole village is killed and he could be responsible, but are the events happening a dream? He's sexually obsessed with an older man, has discussions on life with a folk singer farmer and many other odd characters. Then it gets to a point where the viewer can't tell what's happening in the the main character's life or in his dreams. It seems nothing much exciting is happening in his life, so his adventures take place mostly in his dreams. So the film is kind of like a french existential Donnie Darko as filmed by Godard. It's definitely a film you have to think about. I personally enjoyed it.

This movie is about a boy who thinks he will never wake up if he fall asleep again. And this makes him for some reason shoot down the population of a small village and then go on the run. Then the movie just doesn't makes any sense anymore and after a hour i walked out, realizing i didn't care at all how it ended. It wasn't worth it.Although the story seems interesting there was nothing in this movie that kept any standard. I could have stayed to the end if it had been beautiful shot or something similar, but no. A huge disappointment!