Little White Discharge In 38 Weeks

Vittorio De Sica: A lucid and sensitive artist article Florence Colombani published in Le Monde

On the one hand, a billsticker in search of his stolen bicycle in Italy affected the post-war period. In another, a seducer in light suit, charming smile at the corner of his mouth. Difficult to imagine two men more different that Anto nio Ricci, the hero of The Bicycle Thief , and its creator, Vittorio De Sica .

Born in modest circumstances at the dawn of the century, Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples. Famous in the 1920s, it is a kind of Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alpine, comfortable in a lighter register, capable of depth at times when Max Ophuls ( Madame de ...) or Roberto Rossellini (General Della Rovere ) are behind the camera. As director, De Sica is a rare artist whose humanistic sensibility goes hand in hand with a cruel lucidity.
"The war experience was crucial for us all. Everyone felt the mad desire to throw all the old stories Italian cinema, to plant the camera in the middle of real life, amidst all that filled our eyes aghast "

," he wrote in 1960

, looking back on his participation in neo-realist movement (quoted by

Beautiful Baby Shower Flower Arrangements

French Title:

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

Original Title:

Brutti Sporchi E Cattiva

Year: 1976

Country: Italie - Comédie dramatique - 1:55 a.m.

Réalisation: Ettore Scola
Scénario: Ettore Scola, Sergio Citti, Ruggero Maccari.
Photographie: Dario Di Palma.
Musique: Armando Trovajoli.
Production: Romano Dandi, Carlo Ponti.

Interprètes: Nino Manfredi (Giacinto Mazzatella), Francesco
Anniballi (Domitian), Maria Bosco (Gaetana)
Giselda Castrini (Lisette), Alfredo d'Ippolito (Pliny), Giancarlo Fanelli
(Paris), Marina Fasoli (Maria Free), Ettore Garofolo
(Camillo), Marco Marsili

(Mark), Franco Merli (Fernando), Linda Moretti (Matilde), Luciano Pagliuca (Romulus), Giuseppe

Paravati
(Tato), John

the uprooting of ETTORE SCOLA

Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti Sporchi Cattiva e) is "a sight gag where the unbridled delirium leads to the more sober social observation "Archive The World in 1976, Jacques Siclier.

Ettore Scola , which was often screenwriter Dino Risi

, turned a dozen films since 1964 . We knew that Drama of Jealousy (1970 ) when this year We both loved revealed the director virtually unknown 45 years and gave him his image.

Painting of nostalgia, illusions and delusions of a "lost generation"

Ettore Scola

renewed Italian comedy by historical realism, the chronic psychological and praise cinephilia (references to De Sica, Fellini ,

Anto deny ). They made him a well deserved success, but suffers a bit today

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

(Brutti Sporchi Cattiva e) , presented at Cannes, and despite his mixed reception grand prize of staging.

It is always tempting to define a filmmaker with one successful film, made in its genre, and everyone liked it. Ettore Scola with it is not hasty consecration, but a misunderstanding led at home by We both loved , whose tenderness for the characters and the delicacy of touch not found in Ugly, Dirty and Bad , black humor comedy set in a Roman slum. What Scola, leftist, given to see the poor, victims of the capitalist system, which are neither beautiful nor clean, neither good nor virtuous, nor aware of the class struggle, that's good enough to disconcert the intellectuals Cannes and Paris who contemplate political cinema in terms of an idealization of the proletariat! We must dispel this misunderstanding. THE "POOR POOR" First, have reservations. We are in Italy, near Rome, and the poor of Ettore Scola, migrants from the South Italian, Apulia and Sicily, living more or less lawful activities or performing low-paying jobs few, belong in Indeed, a sub-proletariat folded in on itself. Giacinto ( Nino Manfredi ), patriarch of an indescribably large family, living in a shack indescribable, refuses to share with his family a nest egg of $ 1 million lire, of compensation received for the loss of an eye burned with quicklime. Around him, the inhabitants of the slum repeated until the cartoon, the organization of bourgeois society: family and social hierarchy, trade, profit-making activities (including prostitution), fight for power and money, morals sexual ...

This order of misery is hollow, that's plenty. There was no running water, but it was television, it sells, barters it, we fight for a "legacy" to try to poison the patriarch who refuses to give in his lifetime. It operates the same old unproductive (retired grandmother).

The "undeserving poor" of

Ettore Scola , they were already in Les Miserables, Victor Hugo of , with Thenardier and their gang, and in shallow well organized London's Threepenny Opera, Brecht of
. But as Scola does not employ lyricism Hugo's, nor the Brechtian distancing, or pauperism same aesthetic Pasolini (Accatone) or pity desperate

Comencini

(slum Lo Scopone scientifico), it is disconcerting, and some accuse him of having done injustice to the destitute in cities by making people laugh at their expense. is to forget - or to ignore - that the "Italian comedy" is the modern Italian neorealism and it encompasses, through humor even pushed the darkest, all problems, all contemporary ills in a political attitude. The underclass is a filthy slum wart which inevitably on the social capitalist industrial societies. We do not recruit or not, in this "dangerous class", which everyone tries to ignore the existence, including the workers who have access, through their work, their institutions, consumer goods.

The audacity and strength of the film Ettore Scola , this huge farce charged huge effects, cruel and disturbing scenes in comedy development, c is to break the wart, in a show where the crazy gag unbridled results in the most lucid social observation (the awakening of the slum, just to name a few).

The staging is full of ideas, and Nino Manfredi
, great superstar, defends his "loot" against all the tricks and all packages, as a notable citizen its safe. Suburban king of hell, he plays with his, Shakespeare the slum, and as he has no manners, there is gastric lavage with water polluted with a bicycle pump to regurgitate poisoned spaghetti. Style of Ettore Scola

is the exaggeration and sarcasm on a subject that does not lend itself to elegy and need to know to face.

Ettore Scola

the sarcastic knows also when he shows no affection of children being locked up for the day in an enclosure Mesh school playground, when he shows the innocence of a dirty girl who finds herself pregnant at the end of the film. He also paints the misery of these uprooted cultural scene in the choir of the poor trying his hand at singing in dialect, and a glass of wine, the chorus of freedom Nabucco, Verdi of .

Trailer VO Drama / Action Duration: 1:34

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Matt Dillon (Rusty James), Mickey Rourke (Motorcycle Boy)

Diane Lane (Patty) , Dennis Hopper

(father), Diana Scarwid (Cassandra) ...

Francis Ford Coppola

director to two Palmes d'Or for "

Conversation" and "Apocalypse Now " not at present in place that he deserves in Hollywood. If the most famous Italian-American filmmakers called Ford is that he was born in Detroit, the capital of the automotive industry. His father, Carmine, is a conductor, and his family accompanied him on his constant travel. In 1949, Francis, 10, suffered a polio epidemic. Paralyzed, he must keep his room for nearly a year and deals with puppets. Adolescent, young Coppola replaces the puppets by humans: it runs in 8 mm films to which he added a soundtrack recorded on tape.

student he was spotted by Roger Corman
, producer of B movies and a great talent scout. Corman finance his first feature film, Dementia 13 , a film noir where there is a certain taste for the family tragedy. Coppola

also works as a writer, an activity that earned him his first Oscar. It runs for Warner

Big Boy (1967), a touching tale of learning, then finds himself a prisoner of the studio system, flying

The Valley of Happiness (1968), a musical with Fred Astaire

. His next film,
The Rain People portrait of a wife dissatisfied any plate that is a road movie gripping. Coppola founded American Zoetrope

then, a production company to help Scorsese or Lucas : this generation of filmmakers who want to escape the straitjacket Hollywood. From this period, Coppola

connects the masterpieces:

Conversation, which flows in the climate of paranoia of Watergate, The Godfather
his masterful adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel and then the beautiful Godfather II, which tells a half-century of American history. The director then embarked on a grueling adventure and mad

Apocalypse Now. Drugged, gnawed with anguish, he dives at the "heart of darkness" as the hero of the short novel by Joseph Conrad he transposes during the Vietnam War. The film is extraordinary, but Coppola defeated by fate: the producers turn their backs. He feels then all types - the chronicle teenager ( Outsiders, Rusty James), the fresco of time (

Cotton Club, 1984), comedy (
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986) - and even returned to the war Vietnam ( Gardens of Stone, 1987). During the latter film, Coppola loses his eldest son, Gio, a tragedy that haunts including The Godfather III

.

Neither the final installment of the legendary trilogy or Dracula (1992) not quite captivate the public for Coppola find the place that should be hers in Hollywood. American Zoetrope still exists, but her boss is forced to chain commands ( Jack, with Robin Williams, 1996; The Idealist , with Matt Damon) and prefers a time in the cinema production of wine. We wait for November adapt Mircea Eliade, Youth Without Youth

, and he is currently in Argentina an Italian-American epic,

Tetro.

Gangster seeking ideal

Rusty James comes at a critical moment in the career of Francis Ford Coppola

. While the 1970s were those of triumph - a number of Oscars, two Golden Palms, and this social phenomenon that is The Godfather (1972) - the 1980 will be those difficulties and disappointments. The exorbitant cost of
Apocalypse Now (1979) and the failure of Favorite
(1982) condemned
Coppola on a budget.
He chose to adapt quick succession of two books
Susan E. Hinton, a novelist popular especially among teenagers. Outsiders and

Rusty James are both shot in Oklahoma, with young Matt Dillon
and Diane Lane
. The first is a melodrama in color very accessible, as a demonstration of know-how for the studios, the second in black and white in a bold style that borrows from German expressionism, is an "art film and testing for teens," according to a formula of the filmmaker.

The Rusty James title (Matt Dillon
) is sixteen years old and lives on the margins of society, between an alcoholic father (Dennis Hopper
) and his small band of delinquent friends. He lives in worship of his brother, "the motorcycle boy (Mickey Rourke
), which comes just in time for a trip to California to help Rusty and try to build him a semblance of relationship . Both characters are part of a genealogy cinephile: Rusty looks furiously

James Dean of Rebel Without a Cause ( Nicholas Ray, 1955), while the boy prefers the bike to the society of men wandering constantly, like Marlon Brando in The Wild One (Laszlo Benedek , 1953).

Coppola revisits the familiar territory of American cinema in its own way: with a constant inventiveness. The film is shot in black and white, but allows himself a few spots of color to film the fish's brother Rusty would free them from their jar: they are blue and red, like the American flag. The sets are drowned in mist and shadows were painted on walls by Dean Tavoularis, collaborator with
Coppola, as at the time of

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene , 1920). The filmmaker put their hearts and joy in formal experimentation but
Rusty James is not a mere exercise in style. By its central motif - the relationship between the brothers and their father - the film coincides with the major obsession of Coppola: the family microcosm, whose gang is a substitute here. Florence Colombani - The World

Trailer VO: Rumble Fish Inge Landgut (Elsie Beckmann), Otto Wernicke (Inspector Karl Lohmann) ... Screenplay: Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou , according to an article by Egon Jacobson Photo: Fritz Arno Wagner

Sets: Edgar G. Ulmer Production: Nero Movies
Fritz Lang speaks of "M le Maudit" In an interview with Cahiers du Cinema ", published in 1966, the director explains that he appealed to "twelve or fourteen off-the-law "To shoot the scene of Judgement

After the great frescoes Nibelungen, Metropolis and Woman on the moon, I'm more interested in human beings , the motives for their actions. Contrary to what many people believe,

M le Maudit was not from the life of the infamous assassin Düsseldorf, Peter Kürt . It turns out that he had just started his series of murders while Thea von Harbou and I were writing the screenplay

. The script



was completed well before it was taken. In fact, the first idea what the movie
M

came to me while reading an article in the newspaper. I always read a few newspapers in search of a starting point for a story. At that time I worked with Scotland Yard
the of Berlin (at Alexanderplatz ), and had access to certain files whose content was quite confidential. There were reports of numerous murderers as

Grossman of Berlin the terrible ogre Hanover (who killed so many young people) and other like-minded criminals.

For the trial in M I received some unexpected help from an organization of criminals among whom I had made friends at the beginning of my research for the film. In fact, I really used twelve or fourteen of these off-the-law, who were not afraid to appear in front of my camera because they had already been photographed by police. MY FIRST FILM TALKING Others would have liked me, but they could not do so because they were not known to the criminal brigade. I was about to finish filming the scenes were so real criminals when I was informed that the police arrived. I told my friends, but asking them to stay for the last two scenes. They all agreed and I turned very quickly. When police arrived, my scenes were in the box and my "actors" had all disappeared

If I had been associated with a producer, I could never make this film. What producer would have liked a movie without a love story where the hero is a child killer? As M was my first talkie, I experimented with sound, which was obviously not possible in the silent cinema. Remember the blind beggar who goes Bazaar beggars to rent an organ at hand: when he plays a song, a few wrong notes face his hearing, he suddenly put his hands over his ears not to hear these discordant sounds and at the same time, the music stops in the film. There are other times when I used sound: not in the eerie silence of a street at night, or the heavy breathing of the child killer.
But, as the sound can add depth to a scene, the deliberate killing of an action may increase the dramatic content. Let me explain ... When the child is killed, his little ball rolling out of a bush and finally stops. The audience identified with the girl and from this, by association, he knows that with the ball movement, the life of the little girl was also arrested.

I could not, of course, horrible show that child sexual abuse, but not showing the action, I got more feedback from the public that if I really showed the scene detail. I force the viewer to use his own imagination.

A KIND OF psychoanalyst

On the other hand, a simple method can increase the intensity of a scene showing what the actor is supposed to think. You remember the "gadget" moving in the window of a toy store? An arrow moving up and down towards the eye of a bull? ... It takes the murderer a sexual meaning that the public is fully aware ...

[...]

I have often said that a director, working with actors, would be a kind of psychoanalyst, not for the actors themselves, of course, but for the characters. They exist primarily on paper, the director must make them live for the actor, then to the public.

One day at

Hollywood, a writer said:

"I know exactly what you thought when you were filming this scene M , and I told him

" Say it. " He charged his theory at length and it was completely false. At least I thought at the time, but years later, when I was in full press conference in Paris

and I was telling this story, I stopped short because I ' I realized that there could be a profound truth in this kind of thing ... what we call "touch" of a director came from his subconscious - and himself is unconscious when he made his film ... Gretchen Weinberg

A confession of Fritz Lang's "Cahiers du Cinema", published in June 1966

The Author in Majesty

As

Griffith, Murnau and others, Fritz Lang is part of the small community of filmmakers who, at the outset, despite a suspicion to original art considered unclean, were regarded as major artists. So much so that the creator of Metropolis

,

in 1927, came to embody the author in all his majesty (and to play this role in Contempt

directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963). During his career European
of 1919 with

The Master of Love in 1934 with Liliom, Lang exercises absolute control over the production of his films. A Hollywood ( of Fury in 1936 to Diabolical Dr. Mabuse in 1960), he will fight to retain his freedom. He had all the myth: the work great, which hosts masterpieces, and an incredible personality. Take for example the story of his call Goebbels. He had to make a film openly anti-Nazi The Testament of Dr. Mabuse in 1932. But now the propaganda minister told him: "The Führer saw your movie Metropolis and said this is the man who will create the National Socialist cinema. " The same evening I was on the train ," Lang told . The lack of serious historical anecdote? Whatever, it is more than life langienne with its mixture of anxiety and bravado.

Fritz Lang was born in Vienna in 1890 in the upper middle class Catholic (his mother, Jewish, had converted). Tempted by the painting, he discovered, to Berlin, a vocation as a filmmaker. Decision that was born, he wrote, "a belief strange, almost sleepwalking . His first wife committed suicide after he discovered in the arms of his screenwriter, Thea von Harbou . Lang is suspected of murder, experience let paranoia: his friend and biographer Lotte Eisner says that until thirty years later, based in Beverly Hills he noted all his actions in a "heavy volume" to always have an alibi irrefutable provision. In German films, his style is already an astonishingly bold. Overlays admirable in Dr. Mabuse in 1922 ; precise geometry in The Nibelungen in 1924 and futuristic Metropolis in

1926. shadows hanging over the Cursed M announce the future Now the Germany. More broadly, they reflect a conception of man based on the death instinct. "

The desire to hurt, the desire to kill," he wrote, are closely related to sexual need, under the rule which no man acts wisely. "
Death," the greatest drama

"which" always has the last word "haunts all his work, the sublime black films (La Femme
the portrait in 1944

;

The Secret behind the door in 1948) at masterpiece about childhood disguised in adventure movie (The smugglers of Moonfleet in

1955). He died in

1976, sixteen years after a final

Mabuse, leaving an immense work. " Lang, who lived with such intensity, do not be reduced - he and his films - to a common denominator

" wrote

Lotte Eisner .

Florence Colombani

Rule The World in the edition of 03.10.2004
M or the Spirit of the Letter

It literally, of course, he must take the plan known as the Cursed

M . Amazing cinégénie this centrality of the alphabet is at the center of the screen when the killer discovers girls in a mirror the stigma which refers to public vengeance. There is little way, indeed, to differentiate the M

capital of its reflection.

The letter and its dual illustrate a principle of reversibility with the assertion, repeated throughout the film continues to fascinate and disturb the viewer of the twenty-first century. Flattening of all poles, loss of points Landmark: Speaking of the first game Fritz Lang is one of those rare masterpieces that the consecration will never erode the subversive power. When so many other films are processing, M proclaims, as his hero psychopath, I is another. How to say in radicalizing the model of romantic Stevenson ( that Lang will that adapting throughout his career), that is Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde . We must therefore return to the character of Hans Beckert , hallucinatory creature played by Peter Lorre

an ecstatic and hear him declare his judges sitting in a dazzling self-analysis: " I feel that someone is following me through the streets. It is the one that haunts me. And sometimes I feel I continue myself. "
Therefore, the guilt of the killer of children has more than matched by his irresponsibility unbearable. His rhetorical question "Is can I do otherwise? "refers to the idea of an ancient curse that the French translation of the title, however, excessively talkative, see accurately. Lang's strength is precisely not to retract the scandal and confusion that raises this point of view. The filmmaker gives the floor to the most radical advocates of repressive policies and leaves irony about the innocence of a criminal condemned them long before the charade of the trial.

COURT OF CRIMINAL AND VAGABOND "

She is good! So we're told that irresponsible and cajole you into a nursing home! Can you escape or there will be an amnesty. And you, relaxed, you have nothing to fear: you're irresponsible. You still zigouilleras girls!

Speech universally known that the proponents of the death penalty, with which the filmmaker keeps his distance. It is a court of beggars and criminals - chaired by a gang leader whose blond, the leather coat and the cold brutality emerge before the time the Nazi archetype - whose resolutions call for the execution eugenicists " It must be exterminated. It must be eliminated. "terrifying Terms under History. Let us, however, to conclude the superiority of justice over that of regular mob. The trial underground is probably that the metaphor of the regular trial. The outcome of the latter, which Lang pretends to ignore, is unlikely to be different for the accused. Ordinary citizens have they not shown the first few minutes of film of a taste for the lynching that does not deny the fauna of the Unterwelt ? How, moreover, should not be interpreted in the same direction parallel to the pursuit of law-breakers and police? And that is the ultimate victory of well-organized bandits taking speed the authorities in their hunt for the criminal? Tion to the Commissioner that he wants to confess. The burglar caught in the act is similar to a "newborn". The murderer was formally recognized by the blind. That's a world where meeting real culprits and fake innocent looming. The demonstrative power of the coupling noise drives the point home: a sentence that began with a police officer may be terminated by a villain. The very genre of film is contaminated by the widespread confusion. The proliferation of written documents - newspapers, posters, letters - and the minute description of indices and methods of investigation by abolishing the border between documentary and fiction. Subsists while the hyperbolic doubt and violently pessimistic of a filmmaker who does not hesitate to get involved in skepticism. No one has forgotten the haunting song Solveig , alleging

Peer Gynt, Grieg of which serves as leitmotif for the offense appearances. At the inability of Peter Lorre whistling the famous saw Fritz Lang chooses, it is said, to interpret himself haunting melody of the killer. And become, forever, the lining of M . Thierry Méranger - The World

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How Can You Tell If A Scorpio Man Likes You

French Title: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring Original Title: Bom, Yeoreum, Gaeul, Gyeowool, Geurigo, Bom 2003 - South Korea

/ Germany - Drama - 1:43 Director: Kim Ki-duk Cast: Oh Young-soo, Kim Jong-ho, Seo Jae-Kyeong, Kim Young-min and Ha Yeo-jin

Kim Ki-duk every key Perfect self-taught filmmaker and prolific of pertussis international festivals it is one of the most atypical of contemporary Korean cinema. Kim Ki-duk born in 1960 in Bonghwa (

South Korea). His family waits farmer or laborer, but at age 20, he enlisted in the Navy. In 1990 , he traveled to France to study visual arts and sells her designs in the streets of Montpellier. Back home, he wrote several scripts that receive awards. In 1996 , he started directing, with The Crocodile , whose central character collects the drowned bodies of the Han River. Rather

confidential Korea, its poetic and violent films are quickly noticed abroad. One of the most successful Island, is a highly successful festival (seen particularly Venice and Sundance ), and collects money. Kim Ki-Duk then claims a taste for experimentation. It turns Real Fiction, whose hero is a man in crisis run amok in just three hours and twenty minutes with a device of twelve cameras. Address Unknown mark his return to a more traditional form, on a political subject: the film goes on an American army base and evokes the trauma of war Korea. Bucolic poetry

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...

spring and ends to impose in the West, while the aggressive Bad Guy attracted a wide audience in Korea . In 2004, at the Berlin Festival,

Kim Ki-duk won the Silver Bear for best director for her portrayal of a young prostitute, Samaria. He leaves also
with
Venice Silver Lion for Tenants
, a love story almost silent. Characters
of Kim Ki-Duk
are silent, because, he says,

"something has deeply wounded. Their trust in others has been destroyed because of broken promises. " Guetté sometimes drift aesthetic ( Arc), the filmmaker eats international ambitions, and dreams of directing himself French or Hollywood remakes of his own films. Florence Colombani

Le Monde, March 5, 2006

In pursuit of nirvana

Several tracks allow the viewer to walk through the seasons of Kim Ki-duk . The first, announced at the film's title, leads only to itself and loop on the evidence alone of the eternal return. A meditative fable, concentrated avowed Buddhist culture, requires stopping and purifies the eclectic oeuvre and the South Korean director
. The simplicity of the parallel quadrature cycle that shapes the unity of the film, is Obviously disarmingly: four seasons in the life of a temple, surrounded by nature in the midst of very cinégénique Lake Jusanji , refer to as key moments in the life of a man whose career - an initiatory course - is closely related to the sublime site since his childhood. Story of a disciple, then, who has little choice other than learning and acceptance of a master who will lead not surprisingly, turn and fifth season, to send a witness to the instruction received.

Classic, the essential challenge of ensuring the unity of place in any sense of serenity Centrifugal and contemplative a plot that continues to assert the virtues of retirement and vices of the century. Because well-known adage, Hell is elsewhere. "You did not know that the outside looked like this? ", surprised the old monk welcoming the prodigal student became criminal after he fled for a time the asceticism of the pagoda. Stigmatized, the error does not condemn either. Each exaction after awareness and atonement, lets take a course. Hence a memorable sequence of punishment where a candle flame licks up breaking the rope that suspends a killer body and bruised. Hence the presence of doors and gates that symbolize the crossing of thresholds especially symbolic that no walls encloses the space.

Defense and illustration of the passage also illustrated the director's taste for the declination: seasons, ages, bestiary, states of matter - as confirmed by the exploration of solid, liquid and vaporous the water element - remain seized with the prospect of a change that will culminate, as it should, on the heights of a timeless surrounding peaks, the final effort of the master will then freed body and objects constraints gravity by installing to the observation post the statue of Buddha that accompanied his wanderings. Behind the route marked emerge anyway filigree other more adventurous itineraries. Paths that lead nowhere, these escapes are also valuable to the viewer that the arrival of foreign visitors at the strange creatures of the lake.

"It was good medicine"

, maliciously says the wise old man who has just left his young disciple the task of completing the cure of a young neurotic in him making love. Similarly, the sudden appearance of two police officers searching for the murderer exposes a vacuum the risk of cracks of modernity. matter run its course as the failure of the intruder is exploited for edification. When inspectors are helping their prisoner to perform its duties or redemptive they ridicule before a monk stone thrower, we consider especially the power of moments where the film departs from the predetermined program of philosophical tale for other types of stroke . The comedy, of course. But also and above all fantastic. We like to note that while far from being docked at the center of the lake, the pier that supports the temple drifting without direction. In the mist, Spring Summer, Fall, Winter ... spring and becomes, fleetingly, a story of magic and reincarnation, predestination and telekinesis, written after the cat by the tail of a sorcerer immaculate calligrapher. Thierry Méranger

The Cahiers du Cinema "

Introduction to Wisdom

"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and spring, "the filmmaker Korean director Kim Ki-duk, is a fable about learning liturgical spiritual tranquility between Buddhist and materialistic temptations

Filmmakers like Hong Sang-soo
, Im Kwon-taek
and Lee Chang-dong
imposed recently

Korean cinema on the international scene, but the first to be noticed was Yong Kyun-bae in 1989 with Bodhi Dharma Why did he go to the East? , a work advocating asceticism in an aesthetic determined by Zen.

Now what that other prolific creator Kim Ki-duk , who signs each time the films of different styles, reminds us
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...
spring and if the world of each other is sometimes influenced by material aspirations and Western philosophies, the

Korea remains deeply marked by Buddhist culture and the pursuit of indifferent detachment. It would be unfair to suspect

Kim Ki-duk

opportunism. More than the visual splendor of the exotic figure of an initiatory journey for export, is the authenticity of a belief in a certain serenity Here he expresses, he who, after a period of atheism, turned to Christianity and now admits to be at peace with itself thanks to the lessons of Confucius. We know that Confucius was in his childhood, killed a bird and that this gesture was sentenced to be devoured by remorse of evil. This is what happens to the kid in Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and spring, enjoys torturing animals in the ballast of a pebble. The old monk whose disciple he is in a temple floating in the middle of a lake then condemns the move with a big stone tied in back until the fish, frog and snake are issued martyred for their martyrdom. The sobbing boy's will to the extent of the misconduct, indelible. The lesson perpetrated the seasons will be the same. That boy became a monk losing sleep facing a young girl from a strange illness care, he succumbs to sexual desire and deserted the temple to follow, it turns into murderous jealousy, proves that he does there is no natural innocence, that man can not acquire peace by ignoring desires and torments, and that anyone who gives in to passion is doomed to a bad conscience. The sinner custody forever follow sins he committed. Simple as a fable, the film's liturgical Kim Ki-duk displays a pictorial prettiness to advocate a spiritual discipline. The temptations of lust, possession, he contrasts the wisdom of almost demiurgic master who sees all, knows instinctively sort edible herbs and poisonous plants, knows how to get rid of bad instincts and the art of making the most of the living world.

Beautiful images scattered throughout this religious journey: doors that open onto a peaceful setting, a Buddha carved in ice, a cat whose tail is transformed into brush a man who covers his eyes to weep calligraphy paper. They also

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring film to poetry disconcerting. Jean-Luc Douin Le Monde, March 5, 2006

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