Silent films kind of all have the same thing going on. There’s always a very unnecessarily forceful kiss, a guy who looks kinda weird, and otherwise extremely exaggerated movements instead of dialogue. Don Juan is no different. Frankly, I think this movie is the most basically-deconstructed these movies could be. I mean, the classic Byron poem about a guy who hates women so much that he’ll sleep with hundreds of them? It’s a very strange tale to tell, especially for what is evidently a romance movie. It’s like if Joseph Gordon-Levitt made Don Jon a century earli-ohhhhhh. Overall, it’s pretty okay. 6/10
Silent films kind of all have the same thing going on. There’s always a very unnecessarily forceful kiss, a guy who looks kinda weird, and otherwise extremely exaggerated movements instead of dialogue. Don Juan is no different. Frankly, I think this movie is the most basically-deconstructed these movies could be. I mean, the classic Byron poem about a guy who hates women so much that he’ll sleep with hundreds of them? It’s a very strange tale to tell, especially for what is evidently a romance movie. It’s like if Joseph Gordon-Levitt made Don Jon a century earli-ohhhhhh. Overall, it’s pretty okay. 6/10