Out to own today:
Blue is the Warmest Colour
“I feel like I’m faking, faking everything,” Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos)
A young woman just misses her bus to high school. Adèle has a wide-eyed, almost spaced out look to her, that actually belies her intelligence and quick wit. We don’t get to see that side of her yet. In her favourite class, French literature, they are studying LA VIE DE MARIANNE (The Life of Marianne), the unfinished novel of Pierre Marivaux (1688-1763). It appears director Abdellatif Kechiche has a fascination with this dramatist and novelist. His earlier film L'ESQUIVE (2003) concerns a school production of Marivaux’s play LE JEU DE L'AMOUR ET DU HAZARD (The Game of Love and Chance). As the teacher guides the discussion of MARIANNE, the theme of romantic regret emerges from the class analysis. The idea of which will haunt you after BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR concludes. The alternative title to the film is LA VIE D’ADÈLE – CHAPTERS 1 AND 2. There is talk of novelistic work in the television medium, namely THE WIRE, but cinema struggles to compete with its literary cousin. However, with BLUE, we may have a contender. [To read more, click here.]
A young woman just misses her bus to high school. Adèle has a wide-eyed, almost spaced out look to her, that actually belies her intelligence and quick wit. We don’t get to see that side of her yet. In her favourite class, French literature, they are studying LA VIE DE MARIANNE (The Life of Marianne), the unfinished novel of Pierre Marivaux (1688-1763). It appears director Abdellatif Kechiche has a fascination with this dramatist and novelist. His earlier film L'ESQUIVE (2003) concerns a school production of Marivaux’s play LE JEU DE L'AMOUR ET DU HAZARD (The Game of Love and Chance). As the teacher guides the discussion of MARIANNE, the theme of romantic regret emerges from the class analysis. The idea of which will haunt you after BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR concludes. The alternative title to the film is LA VIE D’ADÈLE – CHAPTERS 1 AND 2. There is talk of novelistic work in the television medium, namely THE WIRE, but cinema struggles to compete with its literary cousin. However, with BLUE, we may have a contender. [To read more, click here.]
The Counsellor
“I knew, but I was scared anyway,” Counsellor (Michael Fassbender) to Laura (Penélope Cruz)
Director Ridley Scott. Author Cormac McCarthy writing his first original screenplay. Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Cruz. A cast and crew that movie dreams are made of. Surely THE COUNSELLOR, even with its worryingly John Grisham-esque moniker, should be a project cutting a swathe through the senses? The fug of disappointment surrounds the final credits. [To read more, click here.]
Director Ridley Scott. Author Cormac McCarthy writing his first original screenplay. Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Cruz. A cast and crew that movie dreams are made of. Surely THE COUNSELLOR, even with its worryingly John Grisham-esque moniker, should be a project cutting a swathe through the senses? The fug of disappointment surrounds the final credits. [To read more, click here.]
RSS Feed