Not sure how well known this movie is, but I really cannot recommend it highly enough. From the same director as the film Delicatessen which I can also highly commend, it has a feel of Dune about it in terms of visual style. As an aside – I watched the movie Dune with my pal Ivo Stourton in this basement when he was living with his Ma in Parsons Green. It odd the way certain moments have such strong connections with certain places. In my mind Dune and Ivo will always be linked. Just thought it was a mildly interesting aside. Dune by the way is an underrated movie. No masterpiece for sure – but non the less a decent attempt at reducing a opus length book into movie form (no I haven’t read it – but it looks massive).
Anyway – the film has a kind of 1970’s Vietnam war palette if you know what I mean – kind of grainy and subdued. This is a perfect match for the actual tone of the Film. The central storyline itself is so poetic and in a Brothers Grimm kind of way charming. The characters are for me well drawn and engaging, especially the ‘baddy’, whom we feel both revulsion and a sympathy for – a hard trick to pull off.
In all in this Film makes it into my top 10 (probably). My recent posts have been in praise of our Gallic neighbours – and for that I appologise. It wont happen again.
Children of The Lost City
Not sure how well known this movie is, but I really cannot recommend it highly enough. From the same director as the film Delicatessen which I can also highly commend, it has a feel of Dune about it in terms of visual style. As an aside – I watched the movie Dune with my pal Ivo Stourton in this basement when he was living with his Ma in Parsons Green. It odd the way certain moments have such strong connections with certain places. In my mind Dune and Ivo will always be linked. Just thought it was a mildly interesting aside. Dune by the way is an underrated movie. No masterpiece for sure – but non the less a decent attempt at reducing a opus length book into movie form (no I haven’t read it – but it looks massive).
Anyway – the film has a kind of 1970’s Vietnam war palette if you know what I mean – kind of grainy and subdued. This is a perfect match for the actual tone of the Film. The central storyline itself is so poetic and in a Brothers Grimm kind of way charming. The characters are for me well drawn and engaging, especially the ‘baddy’, whom we feel both revulsion and a sympathy for – a hard trick to pull off.
In all in this Film makes it into my top 10 (probably). My recent posts have been in praise of our Gallic neighbours – and for that I appologise. It wont happen again.
Adieu