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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are the new Jesus and Mary Chain. I am ecstatic!
Yes the gig was wonderful thank you!
Watched some great films with Darth Rich on Saturday night! Welcome to Collinwood was a delightful character study which didn't do anything I expected and had a marvellous ensemble cast including George Clooney (who also co-produced the film), William H Macy, Luis Guzman and the gorgeous Patricia Clarkson. I'd highly recommend it to anyone.
Then we watched Baise-Moi, a film I have been wanting to see for a while after Ms Spooky's glowing recommendation. For those of you who are not aware Baise-Moi is a French film and the title translates roughly as "Fuck Me!" It has caused uproar at just about every film festival it was shown at.
Basically its a female revenge film but co-director Coralie Trinh Thi is a former porn star, as are the two leading actresses. The film has the look and feel of the Dogme school of filming, it's shot in video rather than film, employs natural light, and uses "normal people" instead of high-profile stars. It also includes many scenes of penetrative, close-up sex, with a particularly brutal rape scene that has brought the wrath of censors around the world.
Based on the other co-director, Despentes' novel of the same title, the film follows the adventures of Manu (Raffaela Anderson) and Nadine (Karen Bach), two bored, beleaguered, sexually aggressive young women. Manu is an underage porn star, Nadine is a prostitute, they are both very hot, but not in a glossy model type way at all.
Nadine's curse is an anal roommate who bitches constantly about Nadine pilfering her beer. Manu is involved with a noxious pack of slackerboys who abuse her regularly. Nadine eventually gets tired of her roommate's complaint and slams her head into a wall in a bloody murder. Manu watches her alleged friends kill her best friend on the street, then she's raped. The two then join forces to fuck their way through the byways of France, in the process killing a slew of men and the occasional woman who foolishly crosses their path.
Nadine and Manu kill the way they fuck, with a mix of the methodical and the passionate. Some of the killings fit the feminist schema, e.g, when Manu blows the brains out of one of her tormentors. Others are gratuitous, as when she robs and then kills a woman at an ATM machine. Most troubling, at first glance, is a John Woo-style balletic assault on a sex club, with innocent revellers dispatched mid-fuck. The part where Manu throws up over a man mid-blowjob had me in absolute hysterics as did the scene where Nadine is servicing a client and watches avidly on the hotel TV, a large sausage being sliced with a carving knife, while her clients fucks her from behind!
While some critics (and certainly the censors) have objected to the rape scene as "gratuitous", it's hard to fault the film's insistence on showing the gruesome details of this event to capture its ugly reality. Personally I found the film intriguing and entertaining in equal parts, as well as an apt commentary on the de-humanising effect of society on individuals. Its also a very black comedic "poke" at what is perceived to be "un-feminine" behaviour.
It also must be said that not all the film is grim, grainy reality. Some of the encounters are warm and sexy particularly when our heroines, who seem most alive during sex, pick up two hunks that they don't kill. There is also a wonderfully hot scene in which the women, clad in fetishy black bras and nylons, dance together in a hotel room. The actresses' ease with their sexuality may be partly responsible for making such scenes, which could easily degenerate into foolishness, work.
No its not a perfect film, its slightly over long and a tad voyeuristic but its worth watching. Definitely not for the faint hearted however.
Oh and then we watched the Cowboy Bebop film. The anime style in this was just gorgeous, really fluid and delightful to watch, particularly in Spike's fight scenes. I was a little disappointed overall by the story which lacked some of the *snap* of the series but I shall no doubt re-watch it several times.
I am *still* looking for good Cowboy Bebop slash recs if anyone can give me any. Alternatively can someone *please* write me some Vicious/Spike slash? I shall be your eternal slave if you do. *big kitten eyes*
Yes the gig was wonderful thank you!
Watched some great films with Darth Rich on Saturday night! Welcome to Collinwood was a delightful character study which didn't do anything I expected and had a marvellous ensemble cast including George Clooney (who also co-produced the film), William H Macy, Luis Guzman and the gorgeous Patricia Clarkson. I'd highly recommend it to anyone.
Then we watched Baise-Moi, a film I have been wanting to see for a while after Ms Spooky's glowing recommendation. For those of you who are not aware Baise-Moi is a French film and the title translates roughly as "Fuck Me!" It has caused uproar at just about every film festival it was shown at.
Basically its a female revenge film but co-director Coralie Trinh Thi is a former porn star, as are the two leading actresses. The film has the look and feel of the Dogme school of filming, it's shot in video rather than film, employs natural light, and uses "normal people" instead of high-profile stars. It also includes many scenes of penetrative, close-up sex, with a particularly brutal rape scene that has brought the wrath of censors around the world.
Based on the other co-director, Despentes' novel of the same title, the film follows the adventures of Manu (Raffaela Anderson) and Nadine (Karen Bach), two bored, beleaguered, sexually aggressive young women. Manu is an underage porn star, Nadine is a prostitute, they are both very hot, but not in a glossy model type way at all.
Nadine's curse is an anal roommate who bitches constantly about Nadine pilfering her beer. Manu is involved with a noxious pack of slackerboys who abuse her regularly. Nadine eventually gets tired of her roommate's complaint and slams her head into a wall in a bloody murder. Manu watches her alleged friends kill her best friend on the street, then she's raped. The two then join forces to fuck their way through the byways of France, in the process killing a slew of men and the occasional woman who foolishly crosses their path.
Nadine and Manu kill the way they fuck, with a mix of the methodical and the passionate. Some of the killings fit the feminist schema, e.g, when Manu blows the brains out of one of her tormentors. Others are gratuitous, as when she robs and then kills a woman at an ATM machine. Most troubling, at first glance, is a John Woo-style balletic assault on a sex club, with innocent revellers dispatched mid-fuck. The part where Manu throws up over a man mid-blowjob had me in absolute hysterics as did the scene where Nadine is servicing a client and watches avidly on the hotel TV, a large sausage being sliced with a carving knife, while her clients fucks her from behind!
While some critics (and certainly the censors) have objected to the rape scene as "gratuitous", it's hard to fault the film's insistence on showing the gruesome details of this event to capture its ugly reality. Personally I found the film intriguing and entertaining in equal parts, as well as an apt commentary on the de-humanising effect of society on individuals. Its also a very black comedic "poke" at what is perceived to be "un-feminine" behaviour.
It also must be said that not all the film is grim, grainy reality. Some of the encounters are warm and sexy particularly when our heroines, who seem most alive during sex, pick up two hunks that they don't kill. There is also a wonderfully hot scene in which the women, clad in fetishy black bras and nylons, dance together in a hotel room. The actresses' ease with their sexuality may be partly responsible for making such scenes, which could easily degenerate into foolishness, work.
No its not a perfect film, its slightly over long and a tad voyeuristic but its worth watching. Definitely not for the faint hearted however.
Oh and then we watched the Cowboy Bebop film. The anime style in this was just gorgeous, really fluid and delightful to watch, particularly in Spike's fight scenes. I was a little disappointed overall by the story which lacked some of the *snap* of the series but I shall no doubt re-watch it several times.
I am *still* looking for good Cowboy Bebop slash recs if anyone can give me any. Alternatively can someone *please* write me some Vicious/Spike slash? I shall be your eternal slave if you do. *big kitten eyes*
