Thursday, October 18, 2012
LOST GENERATION
Today's film was Alan Rudolph's
Rudolph is the guy who made one of my favorites Choose Me.
This one is quite different although it does star Keith Carradine and Genevieve Bujold.
It is a wandering tour of Twenties ex-pat Paris including Hemingway as a sort of Greek Chorus. Other notable names as well. A bit like Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris without the time machine.
Outsider artist Carradine rubs elbows with some serious people and gets into a spot of trouble with fake paintings. Also finds and loses and finds his ex who has hooked up with a rich gangster type.
The main thing here is atmosphere. Underlined. Full of it. Art and music. It has great incidental music and an in plot musician to play the tunes. It is all here. Everything you have read about. Very nicely done.
There is also some magical realism which plays out in some nice scenes in a cab where the passing view is modern art pieces.
In ways, it is, itself, a masterpiece that has somehow been messed with. Not executed as well as it deserves.
But it deserves watching particularly Carradine in soap suds. Very good.
I enjoyed it and would actually not mind seeing it again.
That would make it a 4 out of Netflix5.
This is a short film that Mickey Rourke did using scenes from the main film. Hard to figure why he did this but it shows neat scenes and the music. The trailer is "lost".
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