Take artfully selected scenes from a deliberately provocative 2004 French film about a group of young girls being raised at an isolated boarding school, set it to a lovely and haunting piece of piano, cello and violin music written for another film that inspires either rabid devotion or glib dismissal -- Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain -- and what do you get?
Well, the result is something mesmerizing -- and strangely moving.
Here's Clint Mansell's The Last Man, lent to images from Innocence.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Listening Post
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Rabid or glib? Isn't there any middle ground?!? Can't we just get along?
The Fountain is one of those movies people seem to either really like or really dislike. I think it has something to do with its ostensible intended audience's predisposition to accept the cynical and dark as somehow "authentic" -- and the passionate and heartfelt as silly, trite or just plain phony.
For the record, I absolutely loved the movie.
Yay Chez! I can continue to love "The Fountain" as well! And this was just a gorgeous video.
On an aside, you seriously need to see "The Killer Inside Me". I would love your take on it.
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