IdleRich
IdleRich
Yeah two parter wasn't it?Mesrine?
Yeah two parter wasn't it?Mesrine?
that was his big hollywood break. saw it at the cinema and it was OK, but i don't think it made enough waves. A prophet is the one for me.I liked Audiard's Sisters Brothers adaptation with Phoenix and Reilly, but can't remember anything about A Prophet.
Yeah, I remember liking it, but can't remember anything about that one either.Yeah two parter wasn't it?
yeah, with vince cassell. i watched it, sort of like the long 2 part che by soderbergh that was out around the same time. these films were like the transition to series telly. they would have been better as six parters or somethingYeah two parter wasn't it?
Haha I was uncertain if that was the correct title, and I guessed wrong. Haven't seen the Campbell one, although I did like Evil Dead.I reckon a Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell version of Billy Budd would be pretty goddamn great, actually
Oh I just realized I made a double mistake there hahaYou mean Army of Shadows? Different Melville.
how? they might be intense frence women but they're pretty different filmmakers imoI always mix those two up, glad it's not just me
well looks like you got something new and exciting to get toI'm just looking at her filmography now and it turns out I've not seen a single film by Claire Denis.
Also straight people can certainly direct "queer" films, just like queer people can direct "straight" films, and they don't have to be queer to read their films queer. I mean Billy Budd is like, pretty fucking gay. Not as gay as Top Gun maybe, but close.
Oh it's not based on any similarity in the films that they make, purely on the way that people talk about them, or even, not the way they talk about them, but where. In short, both French women directors, both recognised as being distinctive and... not exactly underground but filmmakers who are idiosyncratic rather than attempting to make blockbusters.how? they might be intense frence women but they're pretty different filmmakers imo
But that's different cos they just adapt a few of the stories as separate segments.
oh word I somehow thought you mean the opposite thing by "captures", that makes more senseman all the stuff to do with the daughter's university class and they talk about the IMF and how the global south still has this debt to pay to the west and how bullshit it all is.
I remember thinking first time i saw that was like "you mean to tell me some little French woman was addressing this in 2008? what other director was doing this at the time?"
oh word I somehow thought you mean the opposite thing by "captures", that makes more sense
no other examples come to mind but I doubt she was the only director addressing the IMF/global south in 2008, tho it's usually less direct than having a class of grad students just discuss it for the audience. I experienced the heyday of antiglobalization in the early 00s - the whole scene of post-Seattle huge protests against the IMF, World Bank, G8, FTAA, etc - and tho I wasn't really paying attention to film at the time I do feel like that was definitely the moment when the basic injustice of that debt peaked in Western etc public consciousness, before it was essentially wiped out and replaced by the financial crisis. I'd bet she filmed that before the financial crisis broke, in fact.
anyway, I agree, I think she's pretty good on power dynamics. one of her more recent films that I haven't seen - White Material - sounds like almost a response to the white people having character arcs and emotional journeys to an African backdrop of something like Out of Africa (which isn't even a like, bad movie, just one that would nowadays I assume at least try to give non-white characters some kind of agency, rather than just functions of the white main characters the surround). High Material is about, among other things, indentured servitude.