Les Couleurs de l'Eau
Click to view"Les Couleurs de l'Eau" ("The Colors of Water")
I entered this into the 72-Hour Film Competition, put on by the Grand Cinema, this year.
A little while back in French class, while we were watching "Les Quatres Cents Coups" ("The 400 Blows"), we watched brief snippets of "Sit and Be Fit" while the video was turned on and then switched from cable over to DVD. So Joe Doherty, a classmate of mine, and myself thought it would be really funny if the class made a French work-out video. We kept talking about doing this, as a class final or something like that, but it did not seem like anything was going to happen.
So, along comes the 72-Hour Film Competition. I think: Hey - what if... and so it was. I tried to write in as much to make it pretty "French," including a lot of references to New Wave films from the 60's (plus, some other, more obvious stuff). All of the 30-ish teams showed their five-minute or less films for the competition on Thursday at this theater, The Rialto, and after all is said and done, I'm pretty content with it.
Hope it isn't boring or incomprehensible!