{"id":14700,"date":"2022-01-06T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14700"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:20:09","slug":"lamour-braque-mad-love-1985-andrzej-zulawski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14700","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;amour braque \/ Mad Love (1985, Andrzej Zulawski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still stuck in 2021-catchup until we get to the next Chaplin.  This was a mid-1980&#8217;s ensemble movie where every one of the 20 lead characters is &#8220;the crazy one.&#8221;  It&#8217;s like <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14504\">Vampire&#8217;s Kiss<\/a><\/em> if Nicolas Cage played all the parts.  For a while I was over the moon, but an hour in I hit my fill of wackiness.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/madlove1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/madlove2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>After a successful bank robbery, the four thieves led by Tch\u00e9ky Karo (<em>Full Moon in Paris<\/em>) meet a new friend on the train, latch onto Sophie Marceau (of a Pialat the same year), then declare war on the four Venin brothers who wronged her.  Leon from the train (Francis Huster, star of Demy&#8217;s <em>Parking<\/em> the same year) takes over as the lead, falling for Karo&#8217;s girl Marceau, his eyes glowing yellow when he gets overeager.  I lost track of everyone else, all of whom end up dead anyway, but a guy from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9356\">Amer<\/a><\/em> was in there, a guy from Malle&#8217;s <em>The Lovers<\/em>, a character named Andrzej Zulawski &#8211; and a flamethrower.  Inspired by <em>The Idiot<\/em>, but certainly doesn&#8217;t follow that novel&#8217;s storyline&#8230; still, with <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14724\">the Bresson<\/a>, I made an accidental Dostoevsky double-feature.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/madlove3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/madlove4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still stuck in 2021-catchup until we get to the next Chaplin. This was a mid-1980&#8217;s ensemble movie where every one of the 20 lead characters is &#8220;the crazy one.&#8221; It&#8217;s like Vampire&#8217;s Kiss if Nicolas Cage played all the parts. For a while I was over the moon, but an hour in I hit my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,1863,144],"class_list":["post-14700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-andrzej-zulawski","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14778,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions\/14778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}