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Coming back to Paris almost always goes hand in hand with going to the cinema. It's relative absence elsewhere makes me crave for it. The films that I did see on coming back since Wednesday were :
- Frederick Wiseman's beautiful but a tad bit too long documentary "La Danse, le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris" - a behind the scenes look at the Paris Opera ballet dance school.
- Haneke's White Ribbon, which was great.
- "Casanegra", a Moroccan drama about two young friends trying to make it in the mean streets of Casablanca. It tried to be a sort of Guy Richte style comedy while highlighting the plight of Casablancan society. Unfortunately the comic relief was too contrived as was the love interest, and the intrigue came only in the 3rd act. All we we had to chew on for the first two acts was the long moan which got rather boring.
Otherwise, I saw Shakespeare's Julius Cesar directed by Arthur Nauzyciel. An interpretation that was interesting and ambitious, but not entirely successful. I didn't come out with a sense of high conspiracy or intrigue. The Brechtian mise en scène, and 1920s gangster/art-deco/jazz thing should have worked to that effect, but didn't.
On Sunday afternoon I popped into the Cité de l'Architecture to have a look at the 10 propositions on the greater Paris region to make it a great "post-Kyoto" metropolis. But too many people pushing in all directions and too little time. I only got to see two of the propositions, but have decided to go back there on a weekday..
- Frederick Wiseman's beautiful but a tad bit too long documentary "La Danse, le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris" - a behind the scenes look at the Paris Opera ballet dance school.
- Haneke's White Ribbon, which was great.
- "Casanegra", a Moroccan drama about two young friends trying to make it in the mean streets of Casablanca. It tried to be a sort of Guy Richte style comedy while highlighting the plight of Casablancan society. Unfortunately the comic relief was too contrived as was the love interest, and the intrigue came only in the 3rd act. All we we had to chew on for the first two acts was the long moan which got rather boring.
Otherwise, I saw Shakespeare's Julius Cesar directed by Arthur Nauzyciel. An interpretation that was interesting and ambitious, but not entirely successful. I didn't come out with a sense of high conspiracy or intrigue. The Brechtian mise en scène, and 1920s gangster/art-deco/jazz thing should have worked to that effect, but didn't.
On Sunday afternoon I popped into the Cité de l'Architecture to have a look at the 10 propositions on the greater Paris region to make it a great "post-Kyoto" metropolis. But too many people pushing in all directions and too little time. I only got to see two of the propositions, but have decided to go back there on a weekday..