I rarely talk about action movies in this blog, mostly because there is rarely a lot to say, and also because most of the time, pure action , bores me! I went to see Jumper, because I thought that Doug Liman was also the director of the Bourne Ultimatum and Michael Clayton, two let's say action movies who impressed me by the way they became metaphysical . Actually once checked on IMDB, Liman was only producer and Tony Gilroy made the deal! Nevertheless, if Jumper is rather simple and not very metaphysical, it's almost perfect in the way that an idea is exploited to the end: teletransportation!
It's very modern in the way it treats the super hero, as someone who has to deal with a bigger power than he is of a man. What happened to the fifties bigger than life characters? Being a freak is such a terror for an american teenager, that it takes time for them to enjoy having powers! Anyway our hero enjoys his capacity of teletransportation: robs banks, surf all over the world, have breakfast on top of the pyramids, and that's pleasure he enjoys life, until he discover that some fanatics wants to kill all the jumpers, because only god can be everywhere at the time!
It's like the fantasy of our globalised world being able to be anywhere at home all over the world. But it also opens lots of possibilities, like those fight between the two jumpers , where the world becomes their playground, and they end up in tchetchenia where people are fighting for real. Reality is not that far. This film is so well done, and make identification so easy that the fact that I didn't like the hero didn't stop my pleasure, I really enjoyed the energy of young jamie Bell (ex Billy Elliot) though I was slighlty bored by the neverending play it again samuel L Jackson, Come on man do something new!
I really enjoyed this film because it put fire to my imagination. I thought that I was a jumper, and I am kind of a jumper because, I see films that transport me in very different universes!
La traduction française viendra plus tard!
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Julia, Eric Zonca
I enjoyed this movie even if it was most of the time a dissociated enjoyment, due, to the rather comic effect of drunkenness and its consequences in the character of Julia, the talented Tilda Swinton!
This is an American French movie, made with French money, French director and writer, in America with American actors! Truly if you didn’t know you wouldn’t notice, what is French is not all the time marked by classic fifties French ness like in La Vie en Rose or Amelie!
This the story of Julia, alcoholic woman who party too much and wakes up in unknown places after rather pathetic one night stands. She decides over any logic to help Elena, Mexican alcoholic who wants to kidnap her own son, Tom!
Apparently from what I’ve read this film would be a remake of John Cassavetes Gloria (I remind you the J.C. is my personal cinematic Christ!), If this rumour is true, it’s more a variation than actually a remake, and will every film treating of relations between a kid and a middle aged woman, more or less connected with mobs, be a remake of my darling Gloria? I don’t know!
Please leave old John alone, an independent movie will be cassavetian, not because the actors are drinking or performing, but because it will blow your mind, ok? Blow your mind and leave you silent even an hour after the projection, is this clear? I am sorry to say that there was just one John Cassavetes, and it’s better to be a first rate oneself than a second rate J.C.!
I can’t be totally dissociated myself with this movie, because the script writer happens to be someone that I can say about “a long time ago we used to be friend” and I watched it, looking for the traces of my friend Aude Py!
If this film has to be compared with Gloria I would say, that it’s a wild space version of it, visiting the Hispanic side not of NY ( aka south Bronx) but of America : Mexico! I think of this movie as entertainment, good one with very good acting. The thing that really touched me was the relation between Mitch and Julia. I like the fact that he says that if he’s in love with her, that’s none of her business, this is the kind of things that I could say!
So what a good film, that you’ll enjoy, there is also good material to turn cult, so go and see it! I am too lazy to write the French version of this critic tonight!
This is an American French movie, made with French money, French director and writer, in America with American actors! Truly if you didn’t know you wouldn’t notice, what is French is not all the time marked by classic fifties French ness like in La Vie en Rose or Amelie!
This the story of Julia, alcoholic woman who party too much and wakes up in unknown places after rather pathetic one night stands. She decides over any logic to help Elena, Mexican alcoholic who wants to kidnap her own son, Tom!
Apparently from what I’ve read this film would be a remake of John Cassavetes Gloria (I remind you the J.C. is my personal cinematic Christ!), If this rumour is true, it’s more a variation than actually a remake, and will every film treating of relations between a kid and a middle aged woman, more or less connected with mobs, be a remake of my darling Gloria? I don’t know!
Please leave old John alone, an independent movie will be cassavetian, not because the actors are drinking or performing, but because it will blow your mind, ok? Blow your mind and leave you silent even an hour after the projection, is this clear? I am sorry to say that there was just one John Cassavetes, and it’s better to be a first rate oneself than a second rate J.C.!
I can’t be totally dissociated myself with this movie, because the script writer happens to be someone that I can say about “a long time ago we used to be friend” and I watched it, looking for the traces of my friend Aude Py!
If this film has to be compared with Gloria I would say, that it’s a wild space version of it, visiting the Hispanic side not of NY ( aka south Bronx) but of America : Mexico! I think of this movie as entertainment, good one with very good acting. The thing that really touched me was the relation between Mitch and Julia. I like the fact that he says that if he’s in love with her, that’s none of her business, this is the kind of things that I could say!
So what a good film, that you’ll enjoy, there is also good material to turn cult, so go and see it! I am too lazy to write the French version of this critic tonight!
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