31 January 2010

An almost black and white afternoon

We spent the afternoon watching a grey/white/brown horror film and a black/white/golden biography.




Esther or in English, Orphan was a classical story about a child who is not as nice as she seems.
This Dark Castle production was nice but much too long.
Very much resembling similar stories about 'evil' children or maybe totally normal children(?).
This might be the result of the experiences different directors has concerning children, making them creating movies about children with a certain manipulative gift, excercising their dark sides.
Not at all to different from children in this age.
Come to think of it, quite a truthful description of children, although their abilitiy to work out vicious plans like this might differ from child to child.
There are no such thing as 'innocent', angelic children, although some of us would like to think so. (Gunnar)



Coco & Igor was a very beautiful film but we didn't manage to get the point or understood the end of the (love) story.
Neither did we understand what the film wanted to tell us, apart from the fact that sex can be great ?
Coco and Igor was made into two very superficial figures and maybe this correspond to the 'real' persons but I wonder? (Gunnar)

2 comments:

GS said...

I saw the movie 'Coco & Igor' and it did not convinced me!

But, to understand a bit more this movie, you must see 'Coco avant Chanel'! Much better this one! Don't miss it!

Coco was deeply in love with someone else that killed himself in an accident car, before knowing Igor!
Do you remember the scenes in her room, all in black, as her house when the Stravinsky family arrived?

'Coco & Igor' is more like a sex attraction?! May be...
But I didn´t liked the movie!

The music of Stravinsky, yes! Wonderful, when he compose and plays piano!
And the 'ouverture' of the movie with 'The Rite of Spring', coreography by Diaghilev!

Greetings

Gunnar Bjursell said...

I agree with you 'Fragmentos Culturais'. I didn't understand what the movie aimed at. Sex yes but these two persons must have had other interests and preoccupations in life but sex.
Not much of their struggle and efforts to become the persons they became are depicted in the film.

I'll try to see 'Coco avant Chanel'!

Greetings back!