[Here] Pollet made a work that is the very definition of what French critics like to call an ovni or ufo (as in 'unidentified filmic object'). [It] has been described as being 'like a comet in the sky of French cinema,' an 'unknown masterpiece,' and an 'unprecedented' work that refuses interpretation even as it has provoked reams of critical writing. Its rhythmic collage of images – a girl on a gurney, a fisherman, Greek ruins, a Sicilian garden, a Spanish corrida – is accompanied by an abstract commentary written by Sollers, and only the somber lyricism of Antoine Duhamel's score holds the film's elements together. At first viewing, you fear that [it] might fly apart into incoherent fragments. Instead, over the course of its 45 minutes it invents its own rules, and you realize you're watching something like the filmic channeling of an ancient ritual.
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Méditerranée was released in 1963 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 1 reviews, giving Méditerranée (1963) an average rating of 61%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 100%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Méditerranée a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 61%, Méditerranée is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1963, which stands at 61%.
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