22 January 2013
Old, old, old
2012 has been a great musical year for me. I fell in love with Horseback, was delighted about Scott Walker's latest album and was a bit afraid that 2013 might be a dull year.
And then on the 8th January, our fantastic David Bowie released a single and announced a new album.
The day after, Scott Walker celebrated his 70.
I realized my "old" idols were still kicking ass and felt relieved.
Then came the Oscar nominations. Well, if you know me, you know I don't care much about the Academy except when the prizes help foreign films to sell better. So let's sum it up like this:
Amour + Kon-Tiki = bingo!
(ok, mainly because Amour was one of my favourite films of 2012 and Kon-Tiki is named in my free guide "66 films qui ont fait l'histoire du cinéma norvégien").
2013 began well.
Then I signed a piece of paper saying that, I as an expert - oh yeah - would talk about Norwegian comedies on the 25th January.
Being paid to talk about Kong Curling when people annoyed me so much at Haugesund film festival is a really great pied-de-nez :)
All that bragging to announce that today I turn 35 and take this opportunity to wish you a prosperous year 2013!
And then on the 8th January, our fantastic David Bowie released a single and announced a new album.
The day after, Scott Walker celebrated his 70.
I realized my "old" idols were still kicking ass and felt relieved.
Then came the Oscar nominations. Well, if you know me, you know I don't care much about the Academy except when the prizes help foreign films to sell better. So let's sum it up like this:
Amour + Kon-Tiki = bingo!
(ok, mainly because Amour was one of my favourite films of 2012 and Kon-Tiki is named in my free guide "66 films qui ont fait l'histoire du cinéma norvégien").
2013 began well.
Then I signed a piece of paper saying that, I as an expert - oh yeah - would talk about Norwegian comedies on the 25th January.
All that bragging to announce that today I turn 35 and take this opportunity to wish you a prosperous year 2013!
21 October 2012
Why we did not write for Stockholm Film Festival this year
If you are lucky, you read my text about Oslo, 31 August in Stockholm Film Festival 2011 catalogue. Or perhaps Gunnar's text about Of Gods and Men in the 2010 catalogue. Or even our other texts about Film Socialism, Another Year, Le Havre or Tyrannosaur.
Let's face it : Gunnar and I wrote among the best texts of these catalogues two years in a row.
In 2011, it got even worse. We didn't go to Stockholm and gave our 3 - THREE - vouchers to friends living in Sweden.
This year, the whole thing became a huge joke.
Stockholm Film Festival contacted us. We demanded to be granted to get seats during the day - i.e before 6pm - for the screenings we wanted to attend in exchange for our gorgeous texts. After some lousy negotiation, the deal looked this way : each of us would write about 10 films - TEN - and would get in exchange...
(dramatic pause)
5 vouchers - FIVE ! - as a reward/wage/joke.
5X110 sek = 550 sek for 10 excellent texts.
Yeah you counted right. It means we should spend less than 30 minutes for a minimum wage to make a research and write a text about films.
We thought they were joking. We were wrong. And so we decided that we wouldn't work for this rich international film festival that doesn't even grant seats for its editorializers.
Let's face it : Gunnar and I wrote among the best texts of these catalogues two years in a row.
What for ?
In 2010, we got 2 "volunteer passports". Coming from France, it felt a bit awkward since we couldn't see half the films we had planned. Not even Sound of Noise in which we were credited.In 2011, it got even worse. We didn't go to Stockholm and gave our 3 - THREE - vouchers to friends living in Sweden.
This year, the whole thing became a huge joke.
Stockholm Film Festival contacted us. We demanded to be granted to get seats during the day - i.e before 6pm - for the screenings we wanted to attend in exchange for our gorgeous texts. After some lousy negotiation, the deal looked this way : each of us would write about 10 films - TEN - and would get in exchange...
(dramatic pause)
5 vouchers - FIVE ! - as a reward/wage/joke.
5X110 sek = 550 sek for 10 excellent texts.
Yeah you counted right. It means we should spend less than 30 minutes for a minimum wage to make a research and write a text about films.
We thought they were joking. We were wrong. And so we decided that we wouldn't work for this rich international film festival that doesn't even grant seats for its editorializers.
02 September 2012
September 2012
Yeah, we are still alive
If you wondered why we were so mute, here are three explanations:
1) Gunnar stills works in "his" museum and has a vernissage every fortnight.
2) I work for some clients and can't update this blog as often as I should.
3) I am writing a book about Norwegian Film.
Which means we don't manage doing much more than visiting exhibitions and watch movies made up north.
Once upon a time in Norway...
23 June 2012
Une nuit
English:
This is a police thriller building its story aruond the theme, corrupt polices, friendship between the 'law enforcing units' and the criminal world, the very seldom straight line between what the law says and what one should or can do.
One can always ask oneself if it's the best thing to follow the law and if the people representing the law are morally better than the criminals.
The answer to this last question is often no.
Français:
Simon Weiss est un policier de la brigade mondaine, qui entreprend chaque soir une visite nocturne dans les établissements de nuit, mais se retrouvant dans le collimateur de l'IGS suite à une dénonciation, il tente de découvrir qui l'a piégé.
C'est l'histoire des policiers corruptibles et l'amitié entre les gendarmes/policiers et le monde criminel ou il y a jamais des frontières fixes entre ce que dit la loi et ce qu'il faut faire.
Qui sont les plus honnêtes, les gendarmes et juristes ou les 'truands'? Pas facile à dire.
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