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redfiona99I really ought to thank Film 4 and More 4 for showing three foreign films in a row. It's nice to see something from outside of the four corners of this isle.
Film Four are/were having a Bergman season so I finally got to see 'The Seventh Seal' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal). I can see why it's a classic. It's so stark and beguiling. Totally worth a watch, even if it does move quite slowly.
Then I saw 'The Dreamers' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309987/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamers_%28film%29). I don't tend to jive very well with Bernardo Bertolucci's films, I always feel like I've very distant from what's going on, and sometimes distance can work (see also my love of Ridley Scott's films) but it never seems to in Bertolucci's (honorary exception for Besieged, where it works because of the characters).
Beyond that, it's probably the best performance I've seen Michael Pitt give, given that he resembles a human being in this rather than an object that's been told to pout intensely in the corner. Even if you want to shake the character he plays for not noticing sooner that Theo is obsessed by his sister and politics (and films because his sister is obsessed with them) and Isabelle is obsessed with her brother and films. There is nowhere for him to fit in, no matter how much all three of them realise that would be better.
Also, it falls into the too much nudity trap. I am a fan of the human body, it is awesome, but there's a point where it just becomes a bit blasé in the course of a film. This point is about 4 scenes into The Dreamers, which takes some doing given who is naked.
The last film was 'C.R.A.Z.Y.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.R.A.Z.Y. or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401085/) which is so good I will forgive it the typography especially because of the thing that happens.
But should you want to know how wonky my logic gets, I did wonder why I was having so much difficulty with the French in this. Of course, it takes until the end credits where all the funding bodies are from Quebec for me to get that the reason I understood nothing was not that this was set in Strasbourg or somewhere else where I'd never been but because they were speaking Quebec French.
Other than that, oh really good movie. Disturbingly realistic (I was not surprised that this was partly based [possibly in the my life as told by a drunk sense] on one of the writers's teenage years) and just yes, ever so slightly wonderful.
All three films had pretty amazing scores too.
Film Four are/were having a Bergman season so I finally got to see 'The Seventh Seal' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal). I can see why it's a classic. It's so stark and beguiling. Totally worth a watch, even if it does move quite slowly.
Then I saw 'The Dreamers' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309987/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamers_%28film%29). I don't tend to jive very well with Bernardo Bertolucci's films, I always feel like I've very distant from what's going on, and sometimes distance can work (see also my love of Ridley Scott's films) but it never seems to in Bertolucci's (honorary exception for Besieged, where it works because of the characters).
Beyond that, it's probably the best performance I've seen Michael Pitt give, given that he resembles a human being in this rather than an object that's been told to pout intensely in the corner. Even if you want to shake the character he plays for not noticing sooner that Theo is obsessed by his sister and politics (and films because his sister is obsessed with them) and Isabelle is obsessed with her brother and films. There is nowhere for him to fit in, no matter how much all three of them realise that would be better.
Also, it falls into the too much nudity trap. I am a fan of the human body, it is awesome, but there's a point where it just becomes a bit blasé in the course of a film. This point is about 4 scenes into The Dreamers, which takes some doing given who is naked.
The last film was 'C.R.A.Z.Y.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.R.A.Z.Y. or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401085/) which is so good I will forgive it the typography especially because of the thing that happens.
But should you want to know how wonky my logic gets, I did wonder why I was having so much difficulty with the French in this. Of course, it takes until the end credits where all the funding bodies are from Quebec for me to get that the reason I understood nothing was not that this was set in Strasbourg or somewhere else where I'd never been but because they were speaking Quebec French.
Other than that, oh really good movie. Disturbingly realistic (I was not surprised that this was partly based [possibly in the my life as told by a drunk sense] on one of the writers's teenage years) and just yes, ever so slightly wonderful.
All three films had pretty amazing scores too.
