{"id":3059,"date":"2009-09-09T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2009-09-09T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T00:46:07","slug":"shorts-watched-september-2009-on-the-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3059","title":{"rendered":"Shorts watched September 2009 (on the plane)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice to have a laptop full of movies on the plane. I’d loaded up on drowsy motion-sickness pills so instead of falling asleep in the middle of a feature (as I did with The Grand Duke’s Finances<\/a><\/em>) I took a bunch of shorts. The first four are from the 2004 compilation Visions of Europe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Europe Does Not Exist<\/em> (Christoffer Boe)<\/strong>
\nA large businessman (actor from The Celebration<\/em>) tries to pronounce the word “europe” with the help of a hot woman, I’m not sure why. Boe made the art-drama Reconstruction<\/em> the year before this.
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It’ll Be Fine<\/em> (Laila Pakalnina)<\/strong>
\nEach scene a person or a few stand faces the camera for a not-fixed period of time, then finally nod and walk off. Some vaguely unsettling music and sci-fi soud fx. Europe! Director is an award-winning Latvian.
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Die alten b\u00f6sen Lieder<\/em> (Fatih Akin)<\/strong>
\nIdel \u00c3\u0153ner sings about about the death of old evil songs in an empty theater while a guy who may be FM Einheit drills something and hammers a giant spring. B\/W music video with a color scene. Interesting, but over my head if it had a point.
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Cold Wa(te)r<\/em> (Teresa Villaverde)<\/strong>
\nIllegal immigrants, I’m guessing – being rounded up on the shore (alive and dead) and processed by the authorities. Wordless, quiet, slow-motion. Not crazy about this one. Villaverde is Portuguese, has a film called Os Mutantes<\/em>.
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Love Exists<\/em> (1960, Maurice Pialat)<\/strong>
\n“Deep in my memory, a train passes by just like in the movies. Memories and films are filled up with objects we dread.” You have to read the subtitles loosely – translation seems off. Present-tense empty landscapes accompany wistful music and a wistful narrator speaking of childhood memories from these places. I think it’s really easy to use cinema to express nostalgia. I won’t hold it against Pialat – still looking forward to checking his \u00c0 nos amours<\/em> and Naked Childhood<\/em>. Gives way to distopian dread over the suburbs: “Again and again advertising prevails over reality.”
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Charlotte et son Jules<\/em> (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)<\/strong>
\nTranslated as “Charlotte and her lover” for some reason. Girl (Anne Collette, returning from Charlotte et V\u00e9ronique<\/em> but not Charlotte and her steak<\/a><\/em>) walks into Jean-Paul Belmondo’s apartment to jaunty music and he never stops talking for 12 minutes, essentially “I know why you left me, I knew you’d come back, I know why you’re back, I don’t need you, I do need you,” and when she finally gets a chance to speak it’s “I came back to pick up my toothbrush.” Godardian hilarity! G\u00e9rard Blain (of Truffaut’s Les Mistons<\/em>) waits for her in the car. These last two movies were on that DVD “Their First Films,” alongside Resnais’s Le Chant du styrene<\/a><\/em> and Rivette & Chabrol’s Le Coup du Berger<\/a><\/em>
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