Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Darker Sugar
Thomas' blog features a my picture today, taken during our wonderful gallery hop on Saturday morning.
"A Very Long Engagement," seen last night w Bart & Ashley, is a visual stunner. Sugary at times, but much darker than Amelie. Unlike that cinematic candy cane, this is a mystery and your mind is working putting the pieces of the puzzle together. It concerns lovers separated by World War I, and five soldiers sentenced to death for trying to escape the army by mutilating their hands. Audrey Tatou plays a farm girl hoping against hope and reason that her boyfriend actally survived this death sentence. The cinematography is amazing. Director Jeunet (pictured with Tautou, left) creates two immense and overpowering landscapes: one is the hell of war, in relentless grimy grey mud, and the other consists of bucolic country landscapes flushed with color.
Highly recommended.
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