Tonight I saw a good foreign film ... "Live Flesh" from
Pedro Almodovar, I think this is better than "All about my
mother" for which he won an Oscar actually, 3/5 is my score
...
Story of a young man who sleeps with a girl one night and
then she dumps him and never wants to see him again ... The
problem is the young man is in love and wants to be with
her, etc. She is a junkie and soon pulls out a gun being
frustrated by his annoying presence ...
Meanwhile we see 2 detectives, one is annoyed because his
wife is having an affair ... a shot is fired in the
apartment of the girl and the 2 cops show up to see what
the hell is going on ... one thing leading to the other and
one of the cops is shot in the back and paralyzed.
The young man goes to prison for 6 years, and then, well,
he wants REVENGE feeling it was the girl's fault if he got
in this huge mess in the first place ...
Pretty good although I liked the first half better, it was
getting rather unbelievable by the end, affairs,
doublescrossings, etc. ... good acting, dialogues ...
Lots of jealous people in Spain, guys treating girls like
dirt, and the opposite as well ... I mean one of the girl
has an affair and then to explain why she is not in the
mood to have sex with her husband when he comes back home
she tells him point blank ... "I'm *sore* because I was
f***ing all night with VICTOR !!" ... Geeeeesh !!
3/5, in Spanish with english subtitles.
Bye !!
=====
Marc ;-)
"I am a man of constant sorrow - I've seen *trouble* all my days - I bid farewell to ol' Kentucky - The place where I was born and raised ..... For six long years - I've been
in *trouble* - No pleasure here on Earth I find ..."
("I am a man of constant sorrow" - Song lyrics)
George Clooney - "O Brother, Where Art Thou ?" - 2000
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:30:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marc Desbiens <marcdesbiens@yahoo.com>
Subject: [MV] Clockwatchers - 1997
Ok, I saw this film, 3/5 ... good movie although I have one
major complaint ... the film's background noise is often so
loud that in certain scenes a good portion of the dialogues
can't be understood. Street noise, phones ringing, people
talking ...
I noticed this in less than 5 minutes near the beginning,
the film gives you a headache almost trying to figure out
what some people are saying.
I was just reading Ebert's review (3.5/4) and he describes
part of a scene with the dialogues, I don't even remember
hearing that in the movie, I guess the audio was easier to
understand at the movie theater?? It was a scene in the
cafeteria where a girl talks about her experience working
in a bank and with all those people talking at once behind
her I didn't understand this juicy anecdote he talks about
in his review.
It's the story of 4 office workers, temps, Parker Posey,
Toni Collette, Lisa Kudrow, I forgot the name of the 4th
girl, Ubauch ?? Something like that ... I had only seen her
once before in "Denise calls up" I think.
Fairly simple film as we follow them on their daily routine
in that huge impersonal office. Some parts are very funny
and I was reminded of "Office space" in part, Toni Collette
being asked to wait sitting on a chair in the corridor on
her first day and that someone will be here soon to tell
her what to do ... 2 hours later she is still there ...
waiting, then a lady arrives and tells her : "Why didn't
you tell me you were here ?" ;-)
It turns more serious in the 2nd half though as someone
in the office has been stealing from other workers,
investigation trying to figure out who the thief is ...
of course the temps are targeted since they are not "part
of the office family" ...
Good acting in general, especially by the lovely Toni
Collette of course, she is such a good actress, wow !
Parker Posey, another one of my favorites is doing an
excellent job here even if there are times when I couldn't
figure out what she was saying due to the background noises
as I said ...
At one point I even thought the filmmakers were doing this
on purpose, maybe indicating that what was being discussed
wasn't really important since they were "just temps" you
know, this was their point actually, that they were the
least important people in the office ... etc. Apparently,
I was wrong there, subtitles would have been required !
3/5
=====
Marc ;-)
"I am a man of constant sorrow - I've seen *trouble* all my days - I bid farewell to ol' Kentucky - The place where I was born and raised ..... For six long years - I've been
in *trouble* - No pleasure here on Earth I find ..."
("I am a man of constant sorrow" - Song lyrics)
George Clooney - "O Brother, Where Art Thou ?" - 2000
