Monday, March 31, 2008

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I've always dreamed of being a gangster


J'ai toujours rêve d'être a gangster is a bit 'Coffee and Cigarettes French. Film in black and white episodes in part related to one another, with characters staring, surreal dialogues harsh environments at the bar. Indeed, in an anonymous "cafeteria" by ring and a large parking area. In fact, despite the obvious stylistic debt, against & Jim Jarmusch co, the 35 year-old author and stage director Samuel Benchetrit has been able to give this its second original feature film a nice touch, as well as a comic a bit 'less minimal than in the American model. The characters are simple, but all very soft and human. There are those who, bored by this, look for a future adventure, those who are forced to embark on extravagant to make ends meet, or who, instead, he lived in an era that is no longer and which is now part of the myth. A heartfelt tribute to the movies yesterday, one of the gangsters and adventurers, or perhaps more like the movies in general, as the projection of desires that have no place in life.
It 'really a funny movie, entertaining and very enjoyable, on Saturday afternoon, the hall of the Majestic Bastille was full of laughter and rieccheggiante. It almost seemed a projection of the past. I hope to come out in Italy, but I doubt it, even if it is passed to Locarno Film Festival last year.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Marge Simpson Costume

Rewind!


Be Kind Rewind is a light comedy and surreal Michel Gondry, the French director who has conquered Hollywood after having made videos for Bjork, Rolling Stones, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Kylie Minogue , Daft Punk, Lenny Kravitz and Radiohead. If the remainder after Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep (with Che Guevara and Gainsbourg), he is known in Italy. Less "mental" and much more visual, his latest film is about two tattered that due demagnetize all the tapes of the video store that one of them in temporary management, they start re-make the film most requested by Ghost Busters Robocop in style ... in a wonderfully trashy. Nice idea and well done the film, thanks to the exuberance of Jack Black . A moving tribute to the era of VHS. In Italy
out? Who knows. Here in France it is collecting far less than expected, as has happened in the U.S. and this will certainly help its spread.
A curiosity: both in Italy and France at the moment is the national product and practically inesportabile to big box office successes. In Italy is Verdone, here is Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis , comedy vaguely fantozziana he plays the stereotypical image that the French have inhospitable lands of the far north of the country and spoken typical of their inhabitants. Pare is earning more than the last Asterix (and do not like Alain Delon).

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

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blood will flow?


There Will Be Blood There Will Be Blood or rather, as stated in the inevitable distortion of our national title, is the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson , to Magnolia (the film where it rained frogs) and Boogie Nights (Rise and fall of a porn actor gifted). Despite the quality and success of the first two films, which also launched international actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mark Wahlberg, Anderson has only worked in television for a while 'for years before returning to the movies with this There Will Be Blood . Here again the visual quality is excellent. The initial sequences are powerful: images without words (and sounds!) Blackened and brutalization of men say a lot about human greed and how it can turn a person into a war machine insensitive. Seekers of oil in the mud and crawling along the wells have something delle scimmie di 2001: Odissea nello spazio e della loro lotta per la sopravvivenza ed il dominio. There will be blood è ambientato in California agli inizi del '900 e parla, per l'appunto, di un uomo che ha venduto l'anima al petrolio, nonchè, di conseguenza, del rapporto tra potere e la religione, ovvero della necessità di farsi amici i preti per fregare veramente tutti. Pressochè posseduto dalla sua smania di ricchezza, Daniel Plainview ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), lavora come un matto tirandosi dietro il figlioletto. La sorte premia i suoi sforzi con il successo economico, ma punisce la sua cupidigia colpendo suo figlio, come nella nella migliore tradizione biblica. Nella seconda parte il film elaborates a bit 'lingering on the relationship between the entrepreneur and the preacher possessed Saving Silverman, who had offered the opportunity of an alliance between God and oil (not for nothing they say "anointed by the Lord"). The psychological analysis of character is still very high standards and high complexity, there is also a mention of Moliere's Don Giovanni. Criticism quotes rightly Citizen Kane and Giant well Kubrick and Altman .

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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Theatre ephemeral


Sometimes it is worth spending a few words like theater. In Paris there is overtime. The Theatre de Bouffes du Nord è un posto da sogno. Restaurato in maniera da conservare il fascino fatiscente che aveva negli anni '70 quando Peter Brook lo scoprì, ricorda la pittura Moreau, ma anche quella di Dubuffet da quanto è materico e, apparentemente, lì lì di dissolversi.
Altro posto magico è la Cartoucherie, sede del Théàtre du Soleil , compagnia fondata e tutt'ora diretta Ariane Mnouchkine . In questi giorni presentano l'opera Les Ephémères , che dopo aver debuttato a Parigi a fine 2006 ha fatto il giro del mondo riscuotendo grandi consensi. Si tratta di uno spettacolo che nella sua versione integrale - che io ho visto con sommo piacere sabato scorso - dura circa 7 ore ed è composto da una serie di episodi di vita familiare che abbracciano le generazioni del dopoguerra fino ai giorni nostri (che sono poi anche quelle che compongono la compagnia di attori!). Sono piccole storie raccontate in estrema sintesi e scomposte in vari frammenti; si svolgono su piattaforme circolari spinte sulla scena, dove, in tempi brevissimi, sviluppano intrecci ora commoventi, ora drammatici e sempre appassionanti, per poi scorrere via lasciando il posto ad altre storie. E' uno spettacolo bellissimo e si può vedere anche diviso in Recueil 1 e Recueil 2. Bellissimo è anche il luogo, fa venir voglia di credere nell'utopia (?) della Comune.