Saturday 7 August 2010

Who will take my dreams away?

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5 comments:

Doodlestreet said...

i love this...very intense and emotional...tell me more of the film because i didn't know of it... :)

8 August 2010 at 01:33
valerie walsh said...

this is a pretty great review of the movie, because even though the plot is good, it is shot in the most beautiful of ways :)


La fille sur le pont
For years I was asking myself: the beauty of the early French films, the poetic realism, the simplicity and magic of the early Italian neorealists - where have they gone? I was missing that moment of pure cinema magic, the feel of people, the love for life in the movies. The unforgettable pictures of our childhood created by people like Carne and Vigo, Rene Clair, de Sica and Fellini. Now they are back. Patrick Leconte has created a very original, highly enjoyable little masterpiece that has it all in a modern movie. This beautiful black and white love story is a great moment of contemporary cinema that leaves you with that deeply happy feeling, that cinema sometimes seem to have forgotten about. As a producer and director myself, I was searching for a long time for any modern piece of film that picks up on that wonderful poetic movie tradition that combines reality with a flowing, surreal dream-like storytelling that your heart directly understands. Leconte's gentle and lighthearted, yet perfect command of visual language and editing makes this simple little story about a knife-thrower and cabaret artist and his "victim" and partner, a suicidal young woman, one of my happiest cinema experiences in the last 20 years. That people do this kind of movies these days, gives you hope. We need more movies like this. This is a film that nobody should miss that loves poetry, love, life and circus as major elements of cinema and human existence. Congratulations to Patrice Leconte and his inspired DP Jean Marie Dreujou.

The plot centres around knifethrower Gabor (Auteuil) and a girl called Adèle (Paradis), who intends to kill herself by jumping from a bridge. Gabor, who may also be about to jump from the bridge, intervenes to prevent the suicide and persuades Adèle to become the target girl in his knifethrowing act. The film then follows their relationship as they travel around Europe with the act, ending in Istanbul when they get separated and their lives once again becomes luckless.

8 August 2010 at 01:53
valerie walsh said...

sorry about that :-/ blogger blew a gasket... it said it did not publish!

8 August 2010 at 01:57
Doodlestreet said...

It sounds so beautiful and dark...I like that...and the ending sounds very sad, but those are the good ones since they pull out our feelings.

I need to see this. Is it subtitle?

8 August 2010 at 03:25
asperezas said...

In the edge of madness and death I could say... I saw this movie 2 times, I think. Loved it. And of course I love this song about this total surrender.

8 August 2010 at 04:40

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