I guess For Your Consideration just didn't seem very funny to me. I remember sitting in the theater feeling awkward and disappointed. I remember liking Jennifer Coolidge in it but I've been wanting to see it again.
I thought both Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette were beautiful. I've heard all kinds of reasons about how they were bad movies but I don't buy any of it. Especially the latter. I thought it was a sort of magical transposition of the reality of youthful exuberance over the realities of history. I really thought all the color and the anachronistic music worked. I thought it was fabulous. I thought Lost in Translation summed up the Zeitgeist of my generation: the hunger and the loneliness and the sense of displacement.
As far as The Swimming Pool, I love Francois Ozon and I think I've loved everything I've ever seen that he's done, except for some of his short films, perhaps. I like mystery type movies, first of all, but I also felt that this movie did what David Lynch movies do: activate a part of your mind that you usually can't access while you're awake: that dream state, kind of. Also, Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier are wonderful.
I thought both Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette were beautiful. I've heard all kinds of reasons about how they were bad movies but I don't buy any of it. Especially the latter. I thought it was a sort of magical transposition of the reality of youthful exuberance over the realities of history. I really thought all the color and the anachronistic music worked. I thought it was fabulous. I thought Lost in Translation summed up the Zeitgeist of my generation: the hunger and the loneliness and the sense of displacement.
As far as The Swimming Pool, I love Francois Ozon and I think I've loved everything I've ever seen that he's done, except for some of his short films, perhaps. I like mystery type movies, first of all, but I also felt that this movie did what David Lynch movies do: activate a part of your mind that you usually can't access while you're awake: that dream state, kind of. Also, Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier are wonderful.
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