Mim's Grand Movie Adventure
Dec. 18th, 2011 07:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeAngel,
I must tell you about our film adventure.
Daddy decided we needed to familiarize ourselves with this new invention: a movie on a big screen.
After much agonizing I decided we should see a film by Lars Von Trier - the mad genius of films - showered with praise internationally and considered to be stunningly beautiful. It's a bizarre story about a planet about to cause a giant cosmic accident by colliding with earth as it meanders absent-mindedly around in space. The planet is called Melancholia (hence, the name of the film). In the meantime everyone has a wonderful time. So no bazookas, no one wrestles anyone to the ground, nobody gouges out eyeballs or explodes things.
A nice Friday afternoon movie, I assumed. Just one giant pouf! at the end.
NO MOVIE. It was Friday, the little boy said, movies change Friday. No, I said, you advertised in the paper it plays EVERY DAY OF THE WEEEK at 3 pm. No, he said, not Friday.
Well, last I checked, Friday was a day of the week. (It's been changed apparently)
We eventually rushed back to the Excentris for the next movie scheduled for a 6:30 performance.
NO MOVIE. (Power outage). I said I'm not leaving without a film. An hour later, YES, a film was being shown! L'exercice de l'État : a sublimely clever film said the critics, much praised - about politics in France.
Two hours later the film ended, and I still don't know what it was about.
Tomorrow we might see another film. A cowboy movie?
Love, Mim
I must tell you about our film adventure.
Daddy decided we needed to familiarize ourselves with this new invention: a movie on a big screen.
After much agonizing I decided we should see a film by Lars Von Trier - the mad genius of films - showered with praise internationally and considered to be stunningly beautiful. It's a bizarre story about a planet about to cause a giant cosmic accident by colliding with earth as it meanders absent-mindedly around in space. The planet is called Melancholia (hence, the name of the film). In the meantime everyone has a wonderful time. So no bazookas, no one wrestles anyone to the ground, nobody gouges out eyeballs or explodes things.
A nice Friday afternoon movie, I assumed. Just one giant pouf! at the end.
NO MOVIE. It was Friday, the little boy said, movies change Friday. No, I said, you advertised in the paper it plays EVERY DAY OF THE WEEEK at 3 pm. No, he said, not Friday.
Well, last I checked, Friday was a day of the week. (It's been changed apparently)
We eventually rushed back to the Excentris for the next movie scheduled for a 6:30 performance.
NO MOVIE. (Power outage). I said I'm not leaving without a film. An hour later, YES, a film was being shown! L'exercice de l'État : a sublimely clever film said the critics, much praised - about politics in France.
Two hours later the film ended, and I still don't know what it was about.
Tomorrow we might see another film. A cowboy movie?
Love, Mim
