That may sound so stupidly common, but life is great to watch, life itself, real life, is the greatest show on earth...Not the fantasy, not science fiction, not any form of imagined world, but life just as it is. To make good films, good literature, good fiction, you have to, just like Agnes Jaoui does, observe, select, edit, put on paper and finally on screen small scenes of everyday life.And the result and the final meaning of this is that we are all humans, weak, filled with doubts, longings, ego. Life is miserable but beautiful also. There is a shortage of everything, starting with love and communication, money, power. We , with few exceptions, the great majority of us walking on the streets, filling in the markets, the sideways, sitting on our couches home, in our beds , we are the subject of this great, enormous movie.
Review of The Taste of Others
The Taste of Others
(2000)
What a gem, so much better than the American romantic comedies....
22 April 2008