"Stolz"Rewatched Pride. With German subtitles.
Gesundheit."Stolz"
Gesundheit.
You mean Shaman. She didn't recruit an 80s indie band to turn her into a reindeer.The White Reindeer [Valkoinen Peura] early 1950s Finnish story of a newly married woman who goes to the local shamen to get a potion to help her love life but gets turned into a shape shifting vampire reindeer who starts killing off the remote village's men folk, that sounds rather silly but it's actually a rather gorgeous film full of beautiful shots of the snowy plains of Lapland.
It's way less weird than it sounds.The Lobster. Dystopian dark comedy where newly single people have 45 days to find a new partner or be changed into an animal of their choosing. Highly recommended.
Yes and no.It's way less weird than it sounds.
That's a great description of it. It's probably Chabrol's best that I've seen, really good.La Ceremonie. Claude Chabrol does a Ruth Rendell/Jean Genet mashup. Excellent.
I really like those of his I've seen. All quite dark and not very sympathetic to bourgeois France.That's a great description of it. It's probably Chabrol's best that I've seen, really good.
What Richard Did.
This one made me angry. Loosely - very loosely - based on the killing of 19 year old Brian Murphy by a gang of drunk rugger-bugger meatheads in Dublin in 2000, it's a pretty blatant attempt to whitewash the perpetrators of that crime, and the social class they sprung from.
Competently directed by Lenny Abrahamson (the guy who did the Frank Sidebottom movie, which wasn't really about FS, of course, and Adam and Paul, which I'm going to have to watch now), it also had competent acting from a young cast. But that cast are drawn from the same social swamp of unearned privilege that the killers in the original case came from, so it's not like they were being stretched.
Though more than a few of them could do with a "stretch", preferably in Mountjoy. Or maybe we could rent a gulag off Putin.
It's also based on the book "Bad Day in Blackrock" which is loosely based on the murder. I thought it was more of a supressed rage at the perps and their privileged background. I got the impression it was designed to make the viewer feel "those fucking bastards" rather than a whitewash...
I honestly don't get how you could think that. Even in the funeral scene, when the victim's mum lashes out at those hiding behind a wall of silence, the camera immediately cuts to the perpetrator and his Da sitting in the pew. That looked to me like a very conscious, deliberate effort to divert sympathy towards those two, not to make the viewer think "those fucking bastards".
If they were a D4, anything is possible. One of my cousins from the posh intellectual side of the family (really) taught the lads involved in the original case. Her comment to me was "they were such nice boys, I can't understand it".What can I say? It had the opposite effect on me. At no point did I feel any sympathy or empathy with the perps. They got away with it - how could anyone pitch for the perp?
If they were a D4, anything is possible. One of my cousins from the posh intellectual side of the family (really) taught the lads involved in the original case. Her comment to me was "they were such nice boys, I can't understand it".
I could understand it only too well. . .
At one point you see the bits of the brains of a striker on the ground never mind a machine gun.Battle of the Bogside
Lots of crazy footage and talking heads from those who were there
Harlan County USA
very strong docu about the miners and people of harlan county, history of struggle told through them and the songs. At one point theres footage of a machine gun pointing at strikers. That got me wound up more than a little. Excellent docu tho.
I've only see one Chabrol that wasn't worth watching, Inspector Lavardin. Of his late work The Colour of Lies, The Bridesmaid, The Girl Cut In Two and Bellamy all have at least something in them.I really like those of his I've seen. All quite dark and not very sympathetic to bourgeois France.
Still a few to work through but will keep in mind that IL's not up to much.I've only see one Chabrol that wasn't worth watching, Inspector Lavardin. Of his late work The Colour of Lies, The Bridesmaid, The Girl Cut In Two and Bellamy all have at least something in them.
one thing out of many that struck me- not allowed to call scab at a scab. The gun thugs allowed to murder with impunity but should a striking worker so much as raise a fist, you're nicked. Made me think about the Matewan film and how the local sherrif actually being onside must have been a rarity in places where the company had bought the judiacry a long time agoAt one point you see the bits of the brains of a striker on the ground never mind a machine gun.
The Gift - Fairly standard yuppies in peril genre piece....fairly well put together, nicely played out, passed the time.
See also: The Invitationyuppies in peril