Thursday, March 10, 2016
Down memory lane
Today, a favorite and NYTime Best Film.
Much to appreciate in this fine film. Three rich and privileged kids ride out the Paris student riots in a posh apartment. The decline of the bourgeoisie.
Michael Pitt is an American who is with French twins Louis Garrel and Eva Green.
Ebert says it is near perfect. I would say the same.
I have seen it a few times and still get all caught up in it.
The sound track includes rock classics, Jimmy Hendrix and so on.
I think that there is irony here. Rich kids, revolution against themselves actually.
The observing American Pitt gets caught up in it for awhile then sees through it. Sort of.
There is a lot of nice sex in this film. Gay and straight. Threesome. Not for the prude more for the prurient. The reason we went to French and Italian films in the first place.
Well, I did.
So did you, fess up.
One other thing. The most fun. These people are film buffs. They meet at the Cinematheque. Spellbound with a film which I still can't identify exactly. So Bertolucci intersperses; matches some of his scenes with famous scenes from old films, mostly silent. Very nice touch. It keeps the artifice of these kids' lives front and center. They are playing out a film script!
Labels: best films, films, gay films
