Re: What Have You Watched Recently?
I caught the last half of a movie called "Strings" a couple hours ago. It's entirely acted by wooden marionettes, with basically no facial expression; in fact, in a battle scene at the end a lot of the attacking soldiers had very stylized, almost "faceless" heads.
This was one of the most emotionally charged and masterfully directed movies I've seen in years, and the emotions could be conveyed only in the voices of the actors and the musical score. It had love, tragedy, conflict, treachery and loyalty, all the good stuff, and none of the Hollywood shyness about real emotion by defusing it with comedy.
I'm going to try to track this one down on DVD.