tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post8737234049055081973..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: The Folds of Life: On Arnaud Desplechin's "Kings and Queen"Daniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-85860439505603423522010-04-28T15:13:56.843-07:002010-04-28T15:13:56.843-07:00I was smoking weed during one day and one night, m...I was smoking weed during one day and one night, monday. And i was watching kings an queens, also.<br /><br />The only art critics which is finally usefull is the art critics without concepts from the show scene. Nobody knows what is a mise en scene (a set up?) and nobody wants to know what it is. meanwhile, the instinct makes the audience and the critics equal, for instance to say if the performance of an actor is good or bad. Or to say if the univers moved by hte author is meaningfull.<br /><br />That's why intellectual critics of movie or books are so usefull, we don't have to deal with concepts of usual professinal of art critics.<br /><br />About folding, I was also thinking about the structure of the movie.<br /><br />You may resume it by saying that there is a positive trend, going up and from left to right, the one of Ismael. And a descending trend, the one of Nora, who has chosen property, institutional loneliness of modern grande bourgeoisie, death.<br /><br />It makes a great X fold, in deed. <br /><br />But Nora seems much more monolithic than Ismael.<br /><br />The surprising effectivness of the movie in spite of the poor argument is due I think, to the directing. Looking back to the scene of the funeral of the writer, the ceremony at the church, I realized what the success of the scene dues to it. The shots are short, the time spent shooting each person attending is almost the same.<br /><br />It is increadible to see how Desplechin is meaningfull and effective at the same time.<br />Effective, because the shots are short, and "les plans sont serrés".<br /><br />Meaningfull, because the ironical equality in front of the death, is communicated, by the equality of the differents frames. But what is framed, the solemnity of the one who reads the bible, the sorrow of Nora, are so different.@PierreDDNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00485581322634051533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-13493615405793879912009-01-20T10:56:00.000-08:002009-01-20T10:56:00.000-08:00"Desplechin is an odd and refreshing filmmaker who..."Desplechin is an odd and refreshing filmmaker who, like Cassavetes, delivers sentiment without sentimentality, pathos without bathos."<BR/><BR/>that's the keyRyland Walker Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09233954424885027837noreply@blogger.com