"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
My first thought when I saw this thread was that it was going to be about the Bonjour Tristesse Brassiere Company.
But, I have seen this movie and it's a great one yet sad.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Quite good and rather edgy for its day. Has a typically brilliant Saul Bass opening credits sequence.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Saw this today. Lovely restoration, lovely location cinematography, lovely Jean Seberg and lovely Geoffrey Horne. Terribly lame story and script, with one of the very worst voice-over narrations in movie history -- it makes Harrison Ford's v.o. in BLADE RUNNER come off like Shakespeare.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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A lot of fun. A favorite of my Mom's (who would always tsk-tsk that Jean Seberg had a black baby - which was not the case at all. She send money to the BLACK PANTHERS. Leave it to my Mother to equate "baby" with "panthers").
Packed house at Film Forum last Saturday night.
"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday
Anth -- how was the audience reaction on Saturday night? Did you get any feeling about it, were people enjoying it?
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
The great thing about film forum (my home away from home) is anyone there either knows they're stuff or are with someone who knows they're stuff.
I can't imagine anyone roaming off the street to catch a revival of "The Bride wore Black" let alone "The Gangs all here" or "Flesh and the Devil" (which was so packed I had to sit in the front row).
The reaction was very positive - they got it.
"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday
That's interesting. The audience was really muted when I saw it, I may just be projecting my own dislike of the film, though. I've been to enthusiastic screenings at Film Forum (a long ago showing of De Mille's MADAM SATAN comes to mind) and this screening of BONJOUR TRISTESSE was definitely not one of them.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
I caught The Gang's All Here there last week -- what fun! Probably the only time I've ever been to a film in which the audience applauded after a musical number.