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Aug. 24th, 2006 07:15 pmSo, I just watched the last episode of Spooks series 4. And oh, god, am I glad Series 5 starts some time in September because I need to know now those guys know how to make serious cliffhangers. I was "OHGOD"ing out loud at the screen. Somebody cuddle me please?
We've gone and seen The Science of Sleep - it was... a Gondry movie, no doubt about that. I'm not head over heels with it, but if you like Gondry, by all means, go see it. You won't be disappointed. All the actors are great, too. The fact that I've had a crush on the two leads for a whiiiile (Gael Garcia Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg) but that it's Alan Chabat I want to give props to tells you how good he was in there. But then again I have a soft spot for Chabat. In the end, I think that film is just a little bit too much. Too much everything that it is.
We've also seen The Wind that Shakes the Barley and hell does it deserve its Palme d'Or. I have yet to see a Ken Loach I didn't like, so give me Loach on Ireland, with Cillian Murphy on top of that, and I'm bound to enjoy it, right? But it was, indeed, brilliant. It's a tragedy, and yet not in the classicist sense of the word, because where Neil Jordan gave us Michael Collins, about the great figures of the time, Ken Loach, fidèle à lui-même, attaches himself to the story of some of the small people. Two brothers, both extremely sympathetic, Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney, and the way they fight together before finding themselves on opposite sides of the fight. Tragedy. Kudos also to Liam Cunningham, whose Dan was extremely engaging.
Ken Loach is extremely talented at a lot of things, and it's all in this movie. The social aspect of things, the absence of manicheanism, shades of grey and filming real people, making us feel for them and with them, laugh with them and cry with them, making us cringe, taking us on a journey with them where he lets us able to choose where we stand, if anywhere at all, and also, maybe mostly, making us think with them, and after the movie is over. About revolt and rebellion and what we're willing to do and to accept for our freedom, and what we take for granted, and I could keep ranting for hours so I'll stop.
My point? Go see this movie. Go see this movie.
We've gone and seen The Science of Sleep - it was... a Gondry movie, no doubt about that. I'm not head over heels with it, but if you like Gondry, by all means, go see it. You won't be disappointed. All the actors are great, too. The fact that I've had a crush on the two leads for a whiiiile (Gael Garcia Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg) but that it's Alan Chabat I want to give props to tells you how good he was in there. But then again I have a soft spot for Chabat. In the end, I think that film is just a little bit too much. Too much everything that it is.
We've also seen The Wind that Shakes the Barley and hell does it deserve its Palme d'Or. I have yet to see a Ken Loach I didn't like, so give me Loach on Ireland, with Cillian Murphy on top of that, and I'm bound to enjoy it, right? But it was, indeed, brilliant. It's a tragedy, and yet not in the classicist sense of the word, because where Neil Jordan gave us Michael Collins, about the great figures of the time, Ken Loach, fidèle à lui-même, attaches himself to the story of some of the small people. Two brothers, both extremely sympathetic, Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney, and the way they fight together before finding themselves on opposite sides of the fight. Tragedy. Kudos also to Liam Cunningham, whose Dan was extremely engaging.
Ken Loach is extremely talented at a lot of things, and it's all in this movie. The social aspect of things, the absence of manicheanism, shades of grey and filming real people, making us feel for them and with them, laugh with them and cry with them, making us cringe, taking us on a journey with them where he lets us able to choose where we stand, if anywhere at all, and also, maybe mostly, making us think with them, and after the movie is over. About revolt and rebellion and what we're willing to do and to accept for our freedom, and what we take for granted, and I could keep ranting for hours so I'll stop.
My point? Go see this movie. Go see this movie.
