25 Comments

stunning use of bare boobies.
Andy
2010-05-12 13:04:48

Ugh. Not very good at all.
Chazy
2010-05-12 14:58:14

Wow. Shocking. Not.
Really boring actually....
Andy
2010-05-12 17:08:04

like der - no video?
nixy
2010-05-12 17:22:04

I agree!
Andrea
2010-05-12 23:44:29

good start, quite ok, one in two
Konrad
2010-05-12 23:56:42

Amazing, very painterly and beautiful, pure art without obvious digital trickery, I love it.
Angie Taylor
2010-05-13 09:31:14

Wow. Tits. Rad. Or, you know, not.

Call me when they do a willy-filled follow-up.
Katy McDevitt
2010-05-13 14:02:50

take me back to the eighties... actually really please don't. Rabbit in your headlight was released in 1998 and still looks fresher than this.
poopki
2010-05-14 12:45:48

Opening scene, must be the most over used location in London. Rest of the video is repetitive, jump in there love and have a right old writhe about. Have they just discovered solarisation?
oneoffphoto
2010-05-14 12:48:33

More beautifully-filmed woman-as-sex-object. Nothing changes...
michael
2010-05-14 12:57:01

How can you make tit's boring? Oh....
JD
2010-05-14 13:18:15

I guess it's always difficult to come up with something original especially when it comes down to a music video.
The visuals are absolutely stunning, the camerawork is great,it's technically awesome.
I guess what I'm missing here is a connection to the song itself. The tension that they're trying to build in the beginning is a bit thin and I personally think that it could have been stronger if they didn't give the boobs away in the first two minutes. But having said that, there's tonnes of videos out there that lack that, do worse or make nude look sleazier than what it could be. It's def worth a few views but nowhere near as stunning as it could be and it's nowhere near as exciting as the videos it reminds me off. This being two videos by Chris Cunningham ; Flex and the one he did for Portishead.
Josje
2010-05-14 13:25:11

Great cinematography, otherwise a bit meh. Reminds me of old 007 intro credits.

wonder if he'll be doing some kind of 'live show' with the new album launch...
Crackles
2010-05-14 13:47:11

Bob Carlos Clarke meets Man Ray photoshop option.



What I don't understand is Creative Reviews use of superlatives all the time to describe actually quite ordinary work, it's as if by critically engaging properly you are worried about offending people who give you good attractive editorial like Warren&Nick. This is weakness and should be addressed . The British Design world can take it and it will only be stronger for such debate.



As far as the video goes it's obviously great if you are twenty year old male Unkle fan, and the budgets these days are so tiny that to do anything which looks half decent is a feat in itself, but the narrative is appalling and the effects become wearisome after a few minutes and having a famous model in it is no reason for it to be labeled 'stunning'. James Bond Opening credits are usually more compelling than this.
Pete
2010-05-14 15:17:00

Each individual frame is gorgeous (which I suppose is what photographers should be best at), but there's not quite enough to carry it as a video - or not to watch on a monitor or TV, at least; perhaps projected huge in a more atmospheric venue - some cavernous club during fashion week? - it would be suitably mood-creating, but then the clichéd narrative beginning, and the dreadful non-event of an ending, would seem even more incongruous, unnecessarily tacked-on and jarringly mundane. I wonder if the directors perhaps didn't have time to supervise the editing?
Thomas
2010-05-14 15:50:01

Nice.
Reserves
2010-05-14 15:53:33

Quite agree with Pete's comments re Bob Carlos Clarke / Man Ray... spot on, old son!

I wouldn't say the video is particularly 'worthy' and it probably could have connected more with the song (but, then it would have been criticised for being 'obvious'!!!), but there is no doubting the craftsmanship.

I, for one, did not find it boring... I am male and I do quite like previous Unkle material, but I'm far from being a "20 year old", by about 30-something years! Is it me, or is there something vaguely reminiscent of Cocteau Twins material about this track?

I digress... back to the video. Revolutionary? No.... Pushing boundaries? No... Complete rubbish? No... Gratuitous use of flesh? Maybe... Eye-candy? Defo!
Fat Typo
2010-05-14 16:47:48

not really that stunning. pretty boring. but hey! its made by "cool" london people so little old creative review wants to feel "cool" and part of their gang.
and i agree katy's comment. when the willy version coming out. its all a bit sad frustrated middle aged men
dadif
2010-05-14 21:03:48

completely agree with pete's comments.
for me its not so much the video that urks so much, its the fawning editorial... you need to straighten the tone of these posts out patrick burgoyne, your doing yourself, the magazine and the work you feature a major disservice. no-one assume any journalist ( i use the term loosely with trade mags) is impartial or immune from prejudice, but as a consumer, the trust you have in your magazine is weakened by boys-club mentality demonstrated in posts like this.
tom
2010-05-15 23:10:15

Did these guys go to the Jasper Goodall school of originality?
James
2010-05-16 15:11:57

More women objectification masquerading as 'art'. Someone watched (the appalling) 300 and thought
Rob
2010-05-17 10:30:18

Beautifully done.
Whether it's "original" or not is besides the point; very little is original in even the best work. This is simple and well done, aesthetically.
St Mark
2010-05-18 17:37:41

The whole effect with the solarization would have been more interesting if the woman's body wasn't in the scene all the time.
The intro scene with the two females at the door entrance intrigured my interest in the beginning but apart from that the rest of the video was just a twistin and turning and nothing more.
krina
2010-05-19 15:01:58

Looks like a not-so-good version of the "300 - Oracle" scene...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJT-nS4t_gE

My 2 cents...
Patrick
2010-07-23 05:05:06

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