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...

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. 

Lord Shades @ Wacken!

We are proud to announce you that our Berry special friends from Lord Shades will represent France at Wacken Open Air between the 2nd and 4th august 2012.

Extreme music for extreme people ♥

Who's going?

Knocked Up

Well, what can one say about this film? It's another turn around the theme, 'A Bachelor's life turns into something Serious' and at the same time of course a 'Bachelorette's life....' etc. 

Other examples of similar stories are of course: 'The 40 Year Old Virgin'; 'I Love You Man' and so forth.

This is Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) (more stoned sometimes), living his 'I don't want to grow up'-life (somewhat resembling Swedes) with his friends, drinking, smoking (everything) and playing around. On a club he meets Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl). She is a pretty and a (rather) sensible person, not at all likely to fall for Ben but they both fall - into bed.

After this Ben's 'status' rises among his friends but eight weeks later his spirit dips when Alison calls him to tell him - surprise, surprise!!! - that she is pregnant.

As usual the man in this kind of situation always wonders how this could happen!!!??? Well, they've all missed the biology classes, that's for sure.

What happens now is that they both try to form a couple, trying to go along with what has happened and making the best (worst?) of it.

Will they succeed? 

There are some funny moments in the film and the comedy acting is not bad but as the film is a déja vu-story with to many forseeable moments, it tends to become somewhat less interesting along the way.

Born To Be Bad

This is a film about what is sometime called (or was sometimes called) female cunningness but I think that expression is somewhat biased from a male point of view. What happens in this film between different persons - this time a woman being the instigator - could of course just as well been the work of a man.

Joan Fontaine is Christabel, a woman coming to live with her cousin Donna (Joan Leslie).

Having installed herself there, she starts to flirt with Donna's fiancée, the wealthy Curtis (Zachary Scott) but she does so in a way making her look like a innocent victim of circumstances.

She fools Curtis to believe that it's her cousin Donna who wants his money while it's the opposite, of course.

When having outmanoeuvred Donna, she marries Curtis but only for his money as she's actually in love(?) with Nick (the fine actor Robert Ryan). He also loves her but on the same time he despises her for what she has done and for what she is.

This is no masterpiece when it comes to the idea and the very cliché-filled story and plot, implying that one describes the individuals as either being 'this way or that way'. The acting is mostly good but sometimes the American 'over-explicitness' tends to annoy us, gazes, blinks etc. in order to make the American audience fully understand the different twists of the story. The main actors - Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan and Joan Leslie - lifts the story above the mediocre.