Short films are the best (part 2)

This post is the direct continuation of my last entry. For some reason WordPress or the database are being inexplicably weird.

Le Batteur du Bolero by Patrice Leconte
I like the Bolero a lot, and so simply listening to the music would have been enough for me, and at some point I also understood what the film is about – ahahaha! I wouldn’t say it was funny – rather that the idea of just showing one person from the orchestra is very original, and watching this face trying to motivate himself to continue playing is simply great XD I definitely am the kind of person who needs motivation too, harr.

Charlotte, Veronique ou Tous les garcons s’appellent Patrick by Jean-Luc Godard
So the screenplay is by Éric Rohmer, huh XD This story is such a Godard really, it even plays in Paris (of course!), shows the Jardin de Luxembourg (why always this one? Why not the Parc George Brassens? XD) and is from 1957. Beautiful.
I’m so bad at classical music, this one was… Rondo alla ingharese quasi un capriccio (The rage over a lost penny) by Beethoven… I think? I love how the “Cahiers du Cinéma” are lying on the table and all those other little details of Godard-ism. This director is an institution and he seems to be doing everything to to establish that. I especially love his women who say they don’t smoke and then one second later light their cigarette. Whoever would do this, it would look stupid, but Godard makes it stylish. His women are stupid, but without being annoying; his men are assholes, but you immediately forgive them because their bad character is so classy.
I think I made a mistake with studying at the ESCP. In the end, an exchange year in Paris is only ‘true’ when you study at the Sorbonne, I suppose XD

Copy Shop by Virgil Wildrich
I know that Shii loves this short film, and I actually wonder why. It definitely is an original idea, very stylish, nicely directed and subtly funny in its own way, but no.1? Maybe because Wildrich is australian? (Ohohoho, I’m sorry.) I really appreciated the end though, it’s actually the perfect end for a short film *hrr*

Epilog by Tom Tykwer
Erm, the idea is great, the execution is great, the music and cinematography are marvelous, but the situation as well as dialogue unfortunately are generic like hell – every single line is so expected and therefore so boring. Oh well.

I need to watch these films with their audio commentary again XD In fact, I love audio commentary but never even watched a film with its audio commentary once except for “Hable con ella”. This is what the stressful society makes out of me, I suppose – we don’t have time for audio commentary and DVD extras, even though we want to buy the extras as well.