A fascination for musicals rooted from Jacques Demy to something more recent like Christophe Honoré. I've really never imagined myself enjoying musicals because I wasn't particularly thrilled seeing Gene Kelly with his song and dance sequences in An American in Paris. I did like Kelly's participation in Demy's Les demoiselles de Rochefort though. D'ailleurs, I really haven't much adjusted my taste to liking Fred Astaire as well. I must give credit though to his dapper suits and those wonderful lace-ups he taps on the stage. In the unholy grail of musicals, Bollywood ones freak me out because of the extremely cheesy lyrics. It's like asking do you really have to put that much sugar in your coffee? Tout d'abord, there's this new film by Tsai Ming Liang called Visage which I am drawn to in an almost purely visual way.
The plot line is about a Taiwanese filmmaker (Lee Kang-sheng) re-envisioning the myth of Salome at the Louvre. It would be hard for the bit on the myth of Salome not to interest me. Salome like Medusa are those women from history that we have to re-explore because they are outside the box. Moving on, the cast is quite a handful. You have Laetitia Casta, Jeanne-Pierre Léaud, and Fanny Ardant. On top of that there's the special participation of Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Amalric, and Jeanne Moreau. En fait, I'm quite getting quite star struck with the cast. It's no surprise with that statement coming from me...
Now, here's he trailer for your enjoyment. It's
Prost!
I appreciate the way you talk about Salome
in such an English article with a so French title
and some beginnings of phrases typically French!
In "Face," Tsai Ming-Liang pays tribute
to François Truffaut in his own movie within the movie
like "La nuit américaine" [Day for Night]:
http://ondine.wsr3.net/index.php/face/26-deep-zoom-on-face.html
Tsai Ming-Liang revists the final sequence of Les 400 coups
[The 400 Blows] where Antoine discovers the beach,
in a true beginning of the cinema --picture by picture--,
in the Fanny Ardant's hands flicking through a flip book.
Posted by: Nimmzo | 03/11/2009 at 15:13