I Have Just Watched Shirin
My friends, I have just watched Kiarostami's Shirin. It's one of my most amazing evenings as a movie watcher. I thought I knew a lot about Kiarostami. I knew nothing! Shirin makes everything clear. The most daring movie I saw, ever.
I will come back to it, soon. It's late, and I have to put order in my thoughts. And, after watching it, you have the fear to talk about it, you fear a sacrilege. You need some time, to pass the moment of the miracle. Some time, to wait till it becomes a memory. Then you can talk, it's your memory.
It's maybe strange (is it?): the only thing I am able to say now, a rhyme I have put on this blog yesterday, in Italian, from a poem by Vincenzo Cardarelli:
l'amore
brucia la vita e fa volare il tempo
brucia la vita e fa volare il tempo
(love burns life and makes time fly)
(I'm in the Mood for Kiarostami)
Labels: Iranian Film and Poetry, Kiarostami
posted by Pierre Radulescu at
5:32 PM
2 Comments:
Did not see Kiorostani films (I wish!) but I saw something amazing too: Perfume, after Patrick Suskind's book... Oh, man! Did you see it Pierre?
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Anonymous, at 6:34 PM
No, I did not see Perfume, which seems to be very different.
But I saw a very small piece of director Tom Tykwer (who made also Perfume). It is a vignette in Paris, je t'aime! It is a piece of great sensibility, with a mastership of using rapid flashbacks, with a great sense of directing the action. You can watch this vignette on my blog, at:
http://updateslive.blogspot.com/2010/10/paris-je-taime-faubourg-saint-denis.html
So I enjoyed it a lot, and I will look on the Netflix, to see if I can find also Perfume.
Thanks to bringing it to my attention.
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Pierre Radulescu, at 4:08 AM
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