Life, Cinema and Mylène
The year didn't started as well as I was expecting. Stress and anxiety left their fingerprints all over the past two weeks. I've been to the movies though, while spending some quality time with friends, and that was nice.
Broken Flowers takes us to travel with Bill Murray into the lives of four women from his past. A great movie with beautiful photography, good humor and an addicting Jamaican soundtrack.
Finally got to watch Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. I find quite amazing that this movie was captured with stills. Quite an impressive work, and probably the main reason for leaving that feeling of being a too short movie.
The third, and last one, was Odete; and how much I regret having watched it... Opinions may differ but, as far as I'm concerned, it's an illogical, untasteful and sickening movie. It's presented as a love story, a love that crosses the boundaries of life and death. While aspiring to be an artistic production through vain dialogs and out of context situations it fails by those same reasons. Like in "O Fantasma," the last movie by this Portuguese author, love is presented as an obsession and a dependency that leads the main characters to insanity. Throughout the story line morbid and unfit attitudes as well as rough and cruel language strips love from any profound meaning, only leaving space for the negatively stereotyped gay lifestyle this author so much enjoys to show.
On to some other news, Mylène Farmer has started her "Avant Que L'Ombre..." tour. All the concerts will be on the Bercy Stadium (Paris), from 13th to 29th of January. The tour will not tour because the concert is built as a theatrical presentation, using the whole Bercy stadium as the set. The pictures and little video captures that are arriving are quite breath taking. Here's a picture from the cross-shaped second stage and another one of Mylène singing "Ange Parle Moi" on a candelabrum suspended over the audience. (I'm using these photos without permission, and willing to remove them at request.)
A nice week to you all! :)
3 comments:
Le delire! *joy joy* =D
E sim, o Odete é péssimo... aiai, mas ao menos viu-se e já se pode opinar com fundamento. :)
I liked 'The Corpse Bride' and I'll keep in mind to stay away from 'Odete'. In fact, I rarely watch portuguese movies... they're usually either boring or 'look! sex! boobs! drugs! we're very alternative! watch!'. ;) Form the few I've seen, I recommend 'Alice', though be warned it's a slow-paced movie.
I've been quite curious about Alice, but didn't got to watch it.. Guess I'll wait for the TV window. :)
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