So Long, Silver Screen

author: Blutch
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2018/07/07
date added: 2018/07/07
shelves: graphic-novels, non-fiction
review:
'So Long, Silver Screen' with script and art by Blutch is more of an essay in graphic novel form, but that seems to suit it just fine.

At times, this felt a bit stream of consciousness in nature, with odd bits flying in from nowhere, but it's an essay about our love of film. How we sometimes fetishize it, and really, it's just another industry at it's heart. With references to Tarzan, Burt Lancaster, Luchino Visconti, and more, the author shows how film has informed his life, sometimes to an obsessive level.

It's pretty original in nature, but I felt like it meandered a bit at times. The artwork is good, and there is definite shock value of sorts along the way. I like the page of gleaming teeth of Burt Lancaster at various stages of his life. I liked it.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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