Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Sunday and shitloads of paperwork on the treadmill

I know. Long time no read. So here is a quick one before I go back to work.
I am spending Sunday at home for I have to prepare some fundraising documents for a project. I haven't done this in years and I am quite excited about it.

It's been a crazy week. I had a conversation with Emilie, one of my father's former girlfriend. The simple thought of my dad having a sexual life is so surpringly healing. But that's not all. Guess what? I might be working on a film set soon and get paid for that. Isn't great? Also, I just met an incredible man called Bo. I hired him for a little job and I just can't wait to become his friend.

Life is beautiful and furious, and feels like a fast hotrod I am being dragged by.
In the mood for :


Sunday, October 12, 2014

My first purchase on Google Play is Automotive

Just saw Automotive (directed by Tom Glynn and starring Will Estes and Emily Baldoni) on Google Play and I really liked it. Among other things, I was intrigued by the selling point of the movie: action is shown entirely around the perspective of a car. The film is independent to the bone and definitely not for everyone given its minimalist and near experimental streak.

Emily Baldoni in Automotive
Here is one of my takes on the puzzle story (watch out if you haven't seen it because I am giving away hints which might spoil your pleasure of being driven by the plot) :

Someone who betrays his/her significant other is a cheater. Someone who betrays his/her dream boy/girl, fantasy or real is a complete loser. Someone who betrays his/her father/mother figure, fantasy or real is cursed. Now what chances do he/she have to escape when this authority figure itself is a corrupt?

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Gros plan sur...

Vie d'ermite et cure intensive de cinéma depuis dix jours.
J'ai l'impression de rattraper du temps perdu, c'est très étrange.

Delphine SeyrigSerge Daney, mes amours, mais aussi Michael Fassbender sont mes vénérables guides. J'ai enchainé en moins d'une semaine trois des films de ce dernier que je n'avais pas encore vus (par dédain), à savoir Prometheus, X-Men : First Class et Shame de Steve McQueen.

On dit Fassbender enclin à jouer des rôles sombres, or je le préfère quand il exprime une certaine malice et joie de vivre, aussi je dirais (un peu par provocation) que c'est la prestation de l'irlandais en tant que machine-à-tout-faire dans le Ridley Scott qui a ma préférence. Avec lui, le mot jouer prend vraiment tous ses sens. "Rien n'est en trop, rien ne manque, rien ne s'impose", comme le susurre la voix off de la réalisatrice Laetitia Masson sur un plan de dos dans la vidéo produite par Arte que voici.




Mmh. Je regarde une seconde fois et surtout réécoute la vidéo. Voix off ponctuant un montage d'extraits de films avec beaucoup de plans de Fassbender à poil.
Narrant sa rencontre cinématographique avec l'acteur et les désirs de filmer qu'elle a provoquée, la réalisatrice Masson s'épanche et assouvit, j'avoue, mes propres fantasmes. Mais quand même. Les mots insistants dès qu'il y a nudité, je ne sais pas… ça me fait me sentir voyeuse, indigne, et ça me gêne. Dire que Shame est supposé faire connaître l'addiction à la pornographie en tant que vrai maladie. Ha ! Ben merde alors.

Masson dit ne rien vouloir connaître de la vie de l'acteur, pour préserver le mystère dans la perspective d'une future collaboration. Moi j'ai envie d'en savoir plus et me demande ce qu'il pense des mille et un fantasmes que nous plaquons sur lui comme des mains baladeuses sur un cul...

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Once We Were Queens and Kings

As I updated my profile and list of favorite films yesterday, I bumped into this picture on the web.

Say hello to "Apu the King", lead character of Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, a movie I heart deeply.

I've been trying to come up with words to describe what I felt when I first watched it.
Some motion pictures just work in mysterious ways and lift you to very high levels of consciousness. I remember a friend telling me one day that most of us had dormant memories of humanity's glorious past, when we all were queens and kings regardless of our age or origins. Whatever that means, Pather Panchali definitely triggered off some weird nostalgic feeling of déjà vu in me...