Her!

Spike Jonze's Her has breathtaking cinematic, beautiful colour play, fantastic styling; basically it is one beautiful scene taking over by another. Cute as hell, but conversation wise I though it played a lot on overly romantic - trying to be profound - clichés, which in the end dragged the overall plot down for me. 

Though the film does raise important questions about where we as society and individuals are headed.

How to cure loneliness in modern days? It is simple. Rather than spending time with real people in anxiety of another emotional letdown, I rather hang out with my virtual significant other, who pleases me in every way. My confident, the intimate one, who I share all the major and insignificant moments with; my best friend, who I don't have to fear walks away, because unlike real people, it isn't connected to a physical body. But then what happens when this "person" all of a sudden develops a mind of it's own, an idea of who it want's to be and attempt to be something that it is not?

All in all I really enjoyed watching this film, and would definitely recommend go seeing it, for nothing else, then at least for the beautiful imagery.

Nymphomaniac!

Yesterday I went to see Nymphomaniac for the second time. 

Some people may think that I am a maniac for using another four hours in the cinema on this movie, but I still really love it. If you have not yet been to see it, I can only tell you to hurry up and go. 

Many has said to me that they feel they need to be in a special mood to endure Triers melodramatic films, but unlike the last couple (Antichrist and Melancholia) this one is still thought-provoking yet contains a lot of this absurd humor that we know from Riget (Kingdom Hospital), The Idiots and The Boss of It All, that gives it a lightness. The mix with short chapters in an overall narrated story keeps a constantly interesting dynamic, and I have to say that I was for the second time never bored throughout the whole film.

I feel I could easily go and see it again as there is so much information, so much to think about and so many great scenes with beautiful cinematic. Funny enough I can't wait to, at one point, see the uncut five and a half hour version.

Django!

Yesterday I went to the cinema to see the latest Tarantino film "Django" before it would only be available on DVD. To be honest I always had a bit of an issue with Tarantino, mostly because I think his films contains to much meaningless violence and lack of plot. But I have to admit that lately I have become a bit of a fan and "Inglorious Bastards" definitely made me want to go and see what "Django" was about despite my previous hesitations regarding him. The violence is no doubt still there but in his last two films he gives it a purpose in his mix of historical fact and fiction, so instead of violence just for the sake of violence it somehow becomes productive.
I don't really know too much about the American Civil war or what was before, and I ask myself if all slave owners were as unsympathetic as portrayed, if there were people who dared to say that they didn't agree with this system of treating people as goods and if there were slaves who rebelled. I can't know what could be true and what is merely schemed in Tarantino's mind but in the end I don't care what is true or not cause I am very entertained. 
It ends up being the ultimate feel good film, because the villains get what they deserve and I left the cinema feeling that justice has been served. On top of that I had a nice reunion with Samuel L. Jackson, who I haven't seen for a while and Christopher Waltz played every bit as brilliant as in Inglorious Bastards.

Home Alone A Late Night!

Last night we went to The Screen On The Green to see the late night screening of Home Alone. Yes That Home Alone. The one from 1990.
The Screen on The Green always have a late night screening of an old movie on Saturdays and when I saw they were showing Home Alone I knew I wanted to go and see it. To be honest I was surprised by the turn-up for this as the cinema was almost full. However I see the appeal of going there on a Saturday before going out maybe, as you can have drinks, wine, beer etc for the screening
I can't remember the first time I saw this film, however I remember that being around the same age as Macaulay Culkin it made a huge impression, especially on the invention part.
Browsing through Google today to find some images I asked to myself if the casted him because he is so good at looking terrified.

Working Day!

It feels like there are so many things to do at the moment. I am constantly up to something, and even though I enjoy my self, a little part of me can't wait for the Christmas break.
Today I meet up with Ansy to shoot some footage for a film I am working on. We went for a walk in the park and she showed me a lovely cafe there. We got stranded in there for an hour or so, because the weather had a sudden change from light rainy to stormy. In the end we had to go out in the cold because we were running out of time.
I didn't bring my normal camera but I took a couple of photos from the day on Instagram.
Last night I had trouble sleeping. I usually get nervous the day before I have to film something and can't fully relax until it is done. Now everything is recorded and I now need to edit it. 
I am really exited about working on this project and can't wait to see the result.

Paris Je T'aime!

As part of learning French I am trying to find time to watch at least one French film a week in order to get some new vocabulary and just getting use to listening to the language. I feel like I have never been so dedicated to leaning another language as I am now.
This weekend I watched "Paris Je t'aime" for the first time. It is a bit weird to watch a movie containing many small movies cause the level of engagement varies from scene to scene. There were of cause some I liked better than others but I think my favorite was Gus Van Sant's contribution from Le Marais.
I imagine soon being in a similar situation when I in less than 3 months will be living in Nantes and go to a french university. Maybe without the soul mate part but for sure me being totally oblivious to what is going on around me.