Vincent Cassel, directed by Kim Chapiron
Excellent French language short film, directed by Kim Chapiron. Vincent Cassel and two brothers are bored and when their mother calls fo a favour, and the younger brothers disobeys the big brother, they use this game to sort out who's the dominant one.
Barbichette is a game for kids - hold each others chins and the first one to break into a grin gets a slap. Great office game!
I wish Vincent Cassel would hold my chin and slap me.
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
The Eagle, 2011
Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell & Donald Sutherland
What can I say? This film is Brokeback set in 2nd Century Roman Britain.
Ah - I should have guessed. Romans. Men. Fighting.
I couldn't figure out whether there's gay subtext, or that it's completely unintentional. I just don't care. Don't get me wrong, it's a watchable film - we watched right to the end. (That doesn't qualify a film as good I know). Good fighting scenes, and the atmosphere and costumes were impressive.
The plot: Centurion who is extra specially brave and skilled wants to re-capture the Eagle standard that his father lost in Scotland. He navigates through the Highlands with the help of a slave who owes him (Jamie Bell). The plot just seemed about trying to regain a totem of his masculinity that was lost with his father's failure. This film just didn't know what it wanted to be or what it wanted to say.
What we couldn't figure out - and eventually why the homoeroticism became more interesting - was why the allegiances of the two main characters seemed so hard to believe. Their motivation just didn't ring true.
Plus PLUS... Why in the name of buggery f*ck was Mark Strong speaking in a really heavy New York Accent? It was really bizarre and jarring.
It could and should have been a better film - it had the potential for greater things and finer feelings.
Instead, we kept wondering when Tatum grab Jamie's more slender frame and give him a nice kiss.
There were moments...
What can I say? This film is Brokeback set in 2nd Century Roman Britain.
Ah - I should have guessed. Romans. Men. Fighting.
I couldn't figure out whether there's gay subtext, or that it's completely unintentional. I just don't care. Don't get me wrong, it's a watchable film - we watched right to the end. (That doesn't qualify a film as good I know). Good fighting scenes, and the atmosphere and costumes were impressive.
The plot: Centurion who is extra specially brave and skilled wants to re-capture the Eagle standard that his father lost in Scotland. He navigates through the Highlands with the help of a slave who owes him (Jamie Bell). The plot just seemed about trying to regain a totem of his masculinity that was lost with his father's failure. This film just didn't know what it wanted to be or what it wanted to say.
What we couldn't figure out - and eventually why the homoeroticism became more interesting - was why the allegiances of the two main characters seemed so hard to believe. Their motivation just didn't ring true.
Plus PLUS... Why in the name of buggery f*ck was Mark Strong speaking in a really heavy New York Accent? It was really bizarre and jarring.
It could and should have been a better film - it had the potential for greater things and finer feelings.
Instead, we kept wondering when Tatum grab Jamie's more slender frame and give him a nice kiss.
There were moments...
Beautiful and Dangerous, 1954
Robert Mitchum & Jean Simmons
I started watching this film this morning while having my morning cuppa. I'd gotten out of bed late - I'd been poorly for days. I don't usually watch daytime telly, and I certainly hadn't expected to get completely sucked in by this - delightful - movie.
The story briefly is that Jean Simmons' character Corby Lane comes to stay in this small town, she's not short of cash and starts dealing out gifts and money anonymously. From the outset, there's chemistry with the town doctor, 'Doc' Robert Mitchum. Except her good intentions backfire, when the barter-based economy and equilibrium in the town is upset by the sudden influx of wealth. Turns out she had a debt to pay since when she was a baby, the town had a whipround for an operation that saved her life.
It's highly sentimental, full of cliches and the acting is suspect. However, it's really laugh-out-loud funny and it's genuinely charming in it's simple message about community and small town economics. The town drunk, the sherriff, the general store, the vet, the doc, the farmer, the kid on the porch - it's all there. (Yep, it's Bedford Falls)
Okay, it's a 50s allegory about upsetting the equilibrium of the social and economic order by an irrational distribution of wealth, but had they replaced actors with animated animals, I bet it would have been taken more seriously.
Hell, it's just a nice romantic comedy. It even made me find Robert Mitchum attractive, and name my first born 'Digger'.
I started watching this film this morning while having my morning cuppa. I'd gotten out of bed late - I'd been poorly for days. I don't usually watch daytime telly, and I certainly hadn't expected to get completely sucked in by this - delightful - movie.
It's highly sentimental, full of cliches and the acting is suspect. However, it's really laugh-out-loud funny and it's genuinely charming in it's simple message about community and small town economics. The town drunk, the sherriff, the general store, the vet, the doc, the farmer, the kid on the porch - it's all there. (Yep, it's Bedford Falls)
Okay, it's a 50s allegory about upsetting the equilibrium of the social and economic order by an irrational distribution of wealth, but had they replaced actors with animated animals, I bet it would have been taken more seriously.
Hell, it's just a nice romantic comedy. It even made me find Robert Mitchum attractive, and name my first born 'Digger'.
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