Fri, 03 Jun 2005
Le poison qui découle de tes yeux, de tes yeux verts
However, I was most surprised!!!
What a great movie! Touching story, beautiful pictures and atmosphere. Granted, the animations *are* more than mediocre but it almost feels like a stylistic device and the beautifully made scenery absolutely makes up for that! Bilal's 2095 New York is at the same time modern and decayed, dark and alive. What struck me most about the movie though was its atmosphere. Kind of morbid/melancholic end-of-the-world, look-where-we-ended-up but without being whiny or annoying. I especially liked that they had some Baudelaire quotes in there. Sometimes even in the French original!
Namely they quoted Une Charogne and Le Poison. Wonderful lines ... I think these really illustrate the movie's keynote best:
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Tout cela ne vaut pas le poison qui découle
De tes yeux, de tes yeux verts,
Lacs où mon âme tremble et se voit à l'envers...
Mes songes viennent en foule
Pour se désaltérer à ces gouffres amers.
Tout cela ne vaut pas le terrible prodige
De ta salive qui mord,
Qui plonge dans l'oubli mon âme sans remords,
Et charriant le vertige,
La roule défaillante aux rives de la mort!
*sigh*
Anyway, if you get a chance to see this movie, do it! It deserves much more than the little attention it got! Bilal really proves that it is still possible to make intelligent, beautiful and poetic science fiction.
Posted at: 01:47 in /english/ent
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