Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The Favourite Game

Also called "Le Jeu de l'ange", the plot setting begins with this piece of pure whiteness in a park of Montreal and also ends there:

Park



The story is about Leo's relationship with two women Shell and Lisa. In real life, Leo is deeply in love with Shell. I captured a couple of fantastic scenes of them:

When they fell in love, their image in the moon was absolutely beautiful and I captured the moments when the night was approaching to them and they were gradually merged into the moon:

Moon Moon Moon



This sunset image is also almost perfect:

Sunset



When they separated, Shell's sadness was artfully expressed through the car mirror:

Separation Separation

Separation Separation



Here comes Leo's "true love" in his childhood memory:

"Lisa the child had evaded me and was still perfect, suddenly making all other women less perfect. They were still beautiful, but somehow less crucial."

Lisa the Child Lisa the Child

Lisa the Child Lisa the Child



"Lisa the child, that perfection remained, preserving the past. Everything could be preserved forever, like my connection to Shell, and in that moment, I remembered."

"I remember flying over the snow and landing. And then I carefully stood up to look behind me at a perfect imprint, both human and angelic, in the perfect whiteness behind me, and that, that was the favourtie game."

Imprint



A perfect novelist and a perfect director made this film perfect in their sense of being perfect.

True love is pure and perfect and it is a series of perfect moments in your memories, especially the childhood momery, almost angelic, the pure perfect whiteness.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Femme Fatale

The best part of the film, for me, is neither the strong sexuality nor the gold and diamond snake design (although they are the indiscerptible part of the film and they are undeniably subtle)

Diamond Diamond



rather, the end of the story, the tagline below:

"When you're on the road......your little girl will always be with you."

When you understand both English and French, this film is pleasingly tailored for you.

"Quand vous êtres sur la route......votre petite fille sera toujours près de vous."

Necklace



This necklace changed future.

In the end, the story reminds you of the beginning, a TV show. It asks, “If you could see the future in a crystal ball......or in the palm of your hand, or in a dream......would you change it?”

The story is then perfect.

Laure (Rebecca) was given a second chance, but it's not a right future; when she woke up from her dream, she didn't take the chance people would mostly take, simply because this wonderful life wouldn't belong to her and this choice made all the difference.

Rebecca's skill is amazing. A woman can have so many different faces in one film:

Male Lily?

Bad Girl Only in My Dreams



So if you could see your future, would you change it; or if you could see your future years ago, would you have changed it?