October 16, 2007

let us be back, let us be free

The most beautiful and the most right description Lubitsch’s comedies – its comparison with sparkling wine, expensive fizz in high graceful glass. Let us not forget that in cinema they often use open bottle of fizz as a symbol of sex and, yes, Lubitsch’s comedies are uncommonly sexy, but in its unique, keen, refined way: Lubitsch shows everything, showing nothing.

But for me Design for Living, 1933, in the crack of down, wasn’t just a film of genius director. The first touch of Dreamers, not just a topic, but feeling were there. I followed these 2 guys and girl in costumes of 30th and realized they just put it of for naked Bertolucci scenes where he just could be more sincere, more vulgar, less slave of time and morals and the same sensitive in creating tension between people.

So may be Schopenhauer was right telling that there is no history – just the same (mostly sanguinary) play where actors just change costumes. Just one eternal dream.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

from Julijourn)))
о да о да! Шопенгауэр! Только что посмотрела! Про стереотипы: так американцы 30-х увидели парижский "шерше ля фам"?! Иногда наша внутренняя Гильда всплывает на поверхность и тогда... Держитесь, мальчики!!!!!

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