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Why, it's Nottingham Broadway, undergone another refit.
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
(Alex Holdridge, 2007)
Post Smith romcom as video rental clerk bitches about his lack of date for midnight New Year's Eve and resorts to popping one off over home made porn of his best mate's girlfriend. His best mate persuades him to put out an online ad - which he does: "Misanthrope seeks Misanthropee". The woman who answers is not who he expects - and the rest of the film in the ravelling of their relationship.
The second intertext is Linklater's Before Sunrise/Sunset movies, with a circumscribed time limit to wander round the city. LA is no Vienna, but both are fish out of water as they hail from Texas. There are unexpected corners of the city (the subway, an old Orpeum theatre) and relationships (old flames, potential other dates).
Shot in glorious black and white for that Clerks vibe, it's a pleasant enough diversion.
LXIV: Hors de Prix (Priceless, Pierre Salvadori, 2006)
Huh huh he said Horse Pricks...
A waiter is mistaken for a welathy customer at a hotel, and spends a night of drinking and passion with a beautiful woman who is then abandoned by her sugar daddy. A year later they meet again and she drains his account. He seeks revenge and acts as a gigolo - with her aid - to make her jealous. Will they destroy each other or fall further in love?
Compared to Breakfast at Tiffany's - with a side order of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes this is an old fashioned film that lives or dies by the central performances of Audrey Tatou and Gad Elmaleh (although Vernon Dobtcheff and Marie-Christine Adam steal their scenes as respective paramours). Tatou is no Hepburn, and I have no Amelie to predispose me to her. Elmaleh has the look and demeanor of Clive Owen, but is pretty enough.
There's a dark underbelly to the film - the golddigger is essentially lonely and doomed - but I was surprised by how much I wanted her to suffer and be punished rather than seeing her as actually getting one over the men. Odd.
Totals: 64 (Cinema: 24; DVD: 38; TV: 2)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
(Alex Holdridge, 2007)
Post Smith romcom as video rental clerk bitches about his lack of date for midnight New Year's Eve and resorts to popping one off over home made porn of his best mate's girlfriend. His best mate persuades him to put out an online ad - which he does: "Misanthrope seeks Misanthropee". The woman who answers is not who he expects - and the rest of the film in the ravelling of their relationship.
The second intertext is Linklater's Before Sunrise/Sunset movies, with a circumscribed time limit to wander round the city. LA is no Vienna, but both are fish out of water as they hail from Texas. There are unexpected corners of the city (the subway, an old Orpeum theatre) and relationships (old flames, potential other dates).
Shot in glorious black and white for that Clerks vibe, it's a pleasant enough diversion.
LXIV: Hors de Prix (Priceless, Pierre Salvadori, 2006)
Huh huh he said Horse Pricks...
A waiter is mistaken for a welathy customer at a hotel, and spends a night of drinking and passion with a beautiful woman who is then abandoned by her sugar daddy. A year later they meet again and she drains his account. He seeks revenge and acts as a gigolo - with her aid - to make her jealous. Will they destroy each other or fall further in love?
Compared to Breakfast at Tiffany's - with a side order of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes this is an old fashioned film that lives or dies by the central performances of Audrey Tatou and Gad Elmaleh (although Vernon Dobtcheff and Marie-Christine Adam steal their scenes as respective paramours). Tatou is no Hepburn, and I have no Amelie to predispose me to her. Elmaleh has the look and demeanor of Clive Owen, but is pretty enough.
There's a dark underbelly to the film - the golddigger is essentially lonely and doomed - but I was surprised by how much I wanted her to suffer and be punished rather than seeing her as actually getting one over the men. Odd.
Totals: 64 (Cinema: 24; DVD: 38; TV: 2)
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