Saturday, September 22, 2012
NIGHT LIFE
Today's film was Alan Rudolph's masterpiece
with Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren and Genevieve Bujold. Music throughout by Teddy Pendergrass.
This is a "kind of boozy La Ronde" as it shows the rounds of a guy named Mickey as he re-enters the world from a shadowy past. A congenital liar who, it turns out, is probably telling the truth. Mickey disrupts the lives of the women in the small circle of friends.
The story and dialogue are spellbinding and the atmosphere is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
I am drawn to this film also by my own experiences in the night life when I first came out in Boston and lived in the bars for several years. This is really, really, the way it seemed to me. I was going to say that it is the way that it really is but I don't think that so much as that it is really the atmosphere. I think that sentence makes sense. The talk, the background noise, the music, the jivey talk, the dreams and the realities.
The colors of this film are neon at night and tastefully bright shades during the days.
Carradine is so overwhelmingly handsome. He is almost godlike as he glides from lady to lady here.
What else? I am ready to see it again "soon".
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