[mike777]

child 44

wonderful=book, wonderful movie.

imagine a paradise where murder cannot exist.
If you suggest such, then think of your family, your loved ones must be tainted and condemned for paradise cannot create such.
think of the children.

[y66]

From A.O. Scott's review of Blue Is the Warmest Color

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When “Blue Is the Warmest Color” was shown at Cannes in May — where the jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, took the unusual step of awarding the festival’s highest prize jointly to Mr. Kechiche, Ms. Exarchopoulos and Ms. Seydoux — much attention was paid to its explicit sex scenes. Not without reason. One sequence in particular is longer and more literal than anything you are likely to encounter outside of pornography. Ms. Maroh (among others) objected that Mr. Kechiche’s rendering of her work was indeed pornographic, reflecting a prurient male fantasy rather than the truth of lesbian sex.

A conversation late in the movie (after most of the on-screen sex has taken place) seems to anticipate this criticism, as does an earlier scene in which Adèle and Emma visit a museum and gaze at paintings and sculptures of naked women, almost all of them produced by men. The conversation features a male gallery owner who rambles on breathlessly about the power and mystery of female sexuality, which has fascinated male artists for centuries.

A parallel argument between Emma and another woman about the relative merits of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt — tireless painters of the female form, as is Emma herself — underlines the theme. All this talk may be an attempt by Mr. Kechiche to cover his own backside while Ms. Exarchopoulos’s and Ms. Seydoux’s are on full, undraped display. Like Titian or Degas or Flaubert, he just can’t help it.

But “Blue Is the Warmest Color” is ardently and sincerely committed to capturing the fullness of Adèle’s experience — sensory, cerebral and emotional. The sex is essential to that intention, even though Mr. Kechiche’s way of filming does not quite succeed in fulfilling it. Trying to push the boundaries of empathy, to communicate physical rapture by visual means, he bumps into the limits of the medium and lapses into voyeurism, turning erotic sensation into a spectacle of flesh.

That is a small failure, given the scale of this movie’s achievement, which belongs equally (as the Cannes jury recognized) to the director and the actresses. The film is at times as sloppy as its heroine, with her runny nose and unruly hair, but it is never dull, lazy or predictable. Mr. Kechiche’s style is dizzy, obsessive, inspired and relentless, words that also describe Adèle and Emma and the fearless women who embody them. Many more words can — and will — be spent on “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” but for now I’ll settle for just one: glorious.

Never dull, lazy or predictable? Indeed. A little long perhaps for watching all at once.

[kenberg]

I took a look at the Wikipedia entry. The "Plot" part begins

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Adèle is an introverted 15-year-old^[18] high-school student whose classmates gossip constantly about boys. While crossing the street one day, she passes by a woman with short blue hair and is instantly attracted.

For me, the "15-year old" aspect of this would be far more of an issue than the lesbianism or the explicitness of the sex. Especially if her guide into this sexuality is significantly older. Fifteen isn't twelve, but it isn't eighteen either.

I'll have to think about it. I accept, from the reviews and from your view, that it is a solidly done movie.

[helene_t]

kenberg, on 2015-June-11, 06:43, said:

For me, the "15-year old" aspect of this would be far more of an issue than the lesbianism or the explicitness of the sex. Especially if her guide into this sexuality is significantly older. Fifteen isn't twelve, but it isn't eighteen either.

It is a French film. The age of conscent varies from 14 to 16 across Europe (except for Ireland where it is 17 and Spain where it is 13), in France it is 15. I don't think many people over here find a film about a romance between a 15 year old and an adult controversial.

I know it is different in the US.

[kenberg]

helene_t, on 2015-June-11, 06:55, said:

It is a French film. The age of conscent varies from 14 to 16 across Europe (except for Ireland where it is 17 and Spain where it is 13), in France it is 15. I don't think many people over here find a film about a romance between a 15 year old and an adult controversial.

I know it is different in the US.

This occurred to me as well. Of course the law is only part of it. I was at a bat mitzvah sometime back when as part of the ceremony, the father explained that in Jewish law she was now at an age where she could marry. He also explained that her father had a different view of the matter.

At any rate, what someone cannot be put in jail for doing and what I am ok with someone doing are not always the same thing. Otoh, I fully understand that the director and all were not making the film to please me. So I will think about it. Probably I won't see it.

[bobsolow]

kenberg, on 2015-June-11, 06:43, said:

I took a look at the Wikipedia entry. The "Plot" part begins


For me, the "15-year old" aspect of this would be far more of an issue than the lesbianism or the explicitness of the sex. Especially if her guide into this sexuality is significantly older. Fifteen isn't twelve, but it isn't eighteen either.

I'll have to think about it. I accept, from the reviews and from your view, that it is a solidly done movie.

If I had known the protagonist was 15, I might not have watched this either. I thought the sex scenes were well done and about twice as long as needed to make this part of their relationship credible which is necessary to make the other parts credible. Adele and Emma are beautiful young women. I think it is a credit to the actresses and the director that their physical beauty is not their most attractive quality and that the sex scenes are not even close to being what makes this such a memorable movie.

[jjbrr]

I thought it was totally forgettable fwiw. It was like sex and the city met angsty high school teenager, while constantly shouting ART and ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE at you like a vegan brings up their lifestyle at a dinner party.

[bobsolow]

jjbrr, on 2015-June-12, 13:03, said:

I thought it was totally forgettable fwiw. It was like sex and the city met angsty high school teenager, while constantly shouting ART and ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE at you like a vegan brings up their lifestyle at a dinner party.

I thought Sex and the City was entertaining for a few episodes because it was somewhat novel at the time and it starred SJP and NYC which is quite a pairing. You could wring all the emotional impact out of all the scenes in SATC and not come close to the impact of the restaurant scene near the end of Blue. That was such an incredible, heart breaking scene (I have such a weak heart). There was definitely some of the ill mannered vegan lifestyle flaunting thing you mention, for example, when the gallery owner held forth at the spaghetti dinner party, but I thought that was done intentionally to make the point that Emma's world was not asshole free either. The painting of Adele with the cigarette dangling from her lips did not shout. But it did blow me away. Wow. James Dean reincarnated as a confused young French woman. "If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?"

[hrothgar]

Ex Machina was quite good

[mike777]

Agree.

I also enjoyed SPY the comedy with Melissa McCarthy, very funny and fun.

[mike777]

Just saw the movie "The Wrecking Crew"

The movie is about the studio musicians who played on so many hit records from the late 50's to early 70's.

A terrific movie.

[gwnn]

I don't know if I should put this here or in the GMO thread but I definitely enjoyed Jurassic World. The final part is a bit silly but OK it's hard to expect realism from a full on dino fight.

[y66]

Not a movie, a series: True Detective with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson on HBO. The dialog / action ratio may be too high for some. It is also on the dark side. But McConaughey is such an incredible actor he makes even the overly wordy scenes fun to watch. And his character and Harrelson's, who have little in common, just click.

Edit: Season 2 is a bust.

[Winstonm]

I really enjoyed "The Imitation Game" from Netflix DVDs.

[barmar]

I've moved all the recent posts about TV shows to the TV Shows - old & new thread.

[Mbodell]

gwnn, on 2015-June-28, 14:36, said:

I don't know if I should put this here or in the GMO thread but I definitely enjoyed Jurassic World. The final part is a bit silly but OK it's hard to expect realism from a full on dino fight.

I agree that it was really well done, for the genre. Did a good job of homage and nostalgia from the first Jurassic Park movie. It isn't a best picture contender, nor a serious exploration of our society, but it doesn't try to be and is a lot of fun.

[Elianna]

Adam and I just saw the Minions movie. It was rather cute if you are in the mood for that kind of thing (we were planning on seeing "Inside Out" but it was sold out). If you enjoyed the movie, stay through the end of the credits.

[mike777]

Elianna, on 2015-August-02, 20:22, said:

Adam and I just saw the Minions movie. It was rather cute if you are in the mood for that kind of thing (we were planning on seeing "Inside Out" but it was sold out). If you enjoyed the movie, stay through the end of the credits.

See Inside out....one of the better movies of the year

This is a big movie week for me, planning on seeing 7 or 8 movies. first up antman

[mike777]

ok have seen 6 movies so far the last few days.

Mission Impossible is the best movie I have seen this year. Just terrific fun and action

Antman was better than I expected.

Pixels, Vacation, Fantastic4( ilove the comic) and Irrational Man the Woody A. movie were duds. I note I was the only person in the theater to see Woody's newest movie.


will see a couple more sunday and Monday to finish them off.

[y66]

Just watched Get Low. So-so+ movie with a typically amazing Robert Duvall performance.