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Note that there are several movies coming to DVD on Friday (The House Bunny, Traitor, and The Women) and several more on Sunday (American Teen, Burn After Reading, Death Race, and Hamlet 2).
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After having written such interesting endeavors as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation, Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which is just now in theaters here, and yet to be released on DVD, is two monologues and Hollywood’s influence away from being brilliant. I have a feeling that he’s been trying to appease executives at some distribution house or an audience with a tad more education than the masses, but it’s still worth seeing, especially for the sublime acting.
WHAT YOU, THE VIEWER, MIGHT WANT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU SEE IT: The noun SYNECDOCHE is a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
WHAT I NOW WANT TO SAY TO CHARLIE: 1. Stay away from Hollywood. You have become a victim of benign censorship, or compromising your ideas to make money. 2. Get over yourself. We know you have a brain, don’t get lazy and think the presentation of your ideas doesn’t matter, let’s be honest, it got a little sloppy. 3. Do not underestimate your audience to the point of becoming pedantic. End your movie after Hazel and Caden are in bed with each other in Hazel’s burning house. 4. Our culture has a codependent relationship with having to understand art, and that’s stupid. This affected your movie too much.
This may be one of the better documentaries I have seen in the last year. Actually understanding the staggering feat of balancing on a wire strung 1350 feet in the air between the twin towers (not to mention the fact that this was definitely not cleared with the Twin Tower’s security detail) might take more than the interviews, discreet reenactments, and crisp archive footage to achieve. However, the film comes close to this in that it induces an hour and a half of marveling at the conception, training, planning, execution, and aftermath of a performance art piece that is unmatched by any example I have yet been made aware of.
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Imagine Singin’ In the Rain… except without rain, and less singin’… and really attractive French actors… and they all sleep together.
I guess that’s the best way for me to describe one our new releases Love Songs (Les chansons d’amour) by French director Christophe Honoré (Dans Paris). This new musical set in Paris is advertised as a musical, which I guess it is, but the musical performances aren’t anything flashy, and insane like Funny Face.
Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire won’t take you on a tour de musical madness around the entirety of Paris in a 5 minute musical number in this film.
If I haven’t lost your interest yet, then what you will see when you watch this film is a modern day Paris through the eyes of Honoré, with spectacular songs with even more spectacular lyrics, sung by a cast of characters tangled together in a love story that simultaneously carries moments of sophisticated humor and deep sadness. Here’s a quick breakdown…
Ismaël is dating Alice.
But Alice also likes Ismaël’s co-worker Julie.
But then Ismaël falls for someone else… Erwann.
Oh dear.
If you wanted to move to Paris after watching Paris, je t’aime or 2 Days in Paris then this movie is for you. Just don’t be fooled by the ugly jacket cover. The French version of the jacket is rad, but the American version looks like a 2-year-old took a crayon to it. Bummer.
bon appétit!
John Waters has officially listed his favorite films of this year. I’m suddenly interested in Cassandra’s Dream…oh Waters, you devil you!
What were you watching last month? Here are November’s best-renting movies at Film is Truth!
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