I just saw this trailer for Xavier Dolan's Les Amours Imaginaires, which was posted yesterday on the alternate Playlist. The analysis is correct: it is a Pedro Almodovar film. The plot is about Francis (Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) falling for the same guy -- i.e., Nicolas (Neils Schneider). The Canadian-made feature reminds me of a 1977 Coline Serreau film called Pourqois Pas!.
Les Amours Imaginaires will play in the Un Certain Regard programming of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. No U.S. distributor as we speak, but opening in Canada in early June.
Schneider is almost as pretty as the young boy everybody wanted in Fellini Satyricon.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM
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George Prager
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Looks like a Mentos commercial, but so does every Almodovar film of the last 10 years. So it looks like an Almodovar film.
Posted by George Prager
at May 1, 2010 12:41 PM
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BurmaShave
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Ah yes, during BAD EDUCATION, all I kept thinking was "Jeeze, this is just like a Mentos commercial"
Posted by BurmaShave
at May 1, 2010 6:05 PM
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LexG
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Why do Euros always make this politically-charged horndog movies about three-ways amongst politically-empowered young people? Bertolucci, Almodovar, a bunch of other old foreign fuckers I can't think of offhand.... Y Tu Mama being a Mexican equivalent of this... the Betty Blue, Sex and Lucia stuff being another example, all these pretentious movies about Leftist politics and rebellion amongst upper-crust rich kids who go their separate ways. BEST OF YOUTH is kind of an Italian example of this, though less sleazy...
Always all this bullshit about young politically aware hipster fuckers having all these hookups, and the OLD ASS directors getting some lecherous thrill out of all these various permutations amongst dudes and dudes, chicks and chicks, two dudes and one chick... And always with this backdrop of political turmoil and a bunch of rich kids where one dude becomes a Socialist and his buddy becomes a Fascist and they go to MARCHES and shit... I'm thinking of "1900" as the ultimate example of this...
Like, they're pretty great movies and all, and I get why elite US critics are fascinated with this milieu...
But at heart I'm just a Podunk motherfucker who grew up in places like Pennsylvania and West Virginia and parts of Ohio and parts of New England and western NY State....
As politically clueless as fucking Larry the Cable Guy and couldn't give a FUCK. To paraphrase Butch in Pulp Fiction, I'm American, I don't believe in shit. Wouldn't march or protest for anything shy of a movement called Get LexG Some Sex From Lindsay Lohan. No politics, don't care, barely vote.... college was BULLSHIT, and I don't get involved in ANYTHING. Most Americans don't.
And while I'm horned up at every moment of my life, ever... I tend to think most Americans have probably had sex with less than 10 partners in their entire lives. So I have to wonder if these European assholes are REALLY banging this much THE DREAMERS-LAST TANGO level vag, or if this is just some line that foreign directors sell, and our dumb asses buy it hook, line and sinker.
Fuck, if I was some douche in Finland and I only watched the American movies of Zalman King, I'd think the US was a pussy paradise of random hookups and fetish chicks. But doesn't make it so. So when some new bullshit like this drops every six months and every tweed-wearing Ken Turan type moons over it, I wonder if we aren't being sold a line of goods. Is EVERYONE in other countries really all politically charged and good-looking and in some menage a trois at all times? Don't they make French/Spanish/Italian movies about schlubby fat shut-ins who can't get pussy?
Or do they issue an Eva Green sexfest to every asshole over there? I wouldn't know because I've never been to Europe, EVER, because that flight is too long, passports are impossible to acquire, and if flying home to Ohio costs 900 DOLLARS from LA, flying to fucking Europe must cost 29,000. Plus, again, I don't have a passport and don't know how to get one.
Also, since I'm seeing this movie is about a two dudes, one chick threesome?
MAD APOLOGIES to all my gay friends and all but:
Don't bisexual guys ever notice THAT CHICKS ARE WAY, WAY, WAY HOTTER than some gross hairy dude with a shit-skid in his underwear?
I don't even know why WOMEN have sex with men.
Posted by LexG
at May 2, 2010 1:31 AM
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George Prager
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Another part of your problem LexG. Just to a CVS, get your photo taken, then go to a post office with your driver's license and birth certificate, fill out the form and get a passport.
http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html#DS11Instruc
It's not that difficult.
Posted by George Prager
at May 2, 2010 7:51 AM
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You can get a roundtrip ticket to London from LAX for under $900.00.
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at May 2, 2010 7:53 AM
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And how deep into your much-publicized FOUR-degree education did you have to get to finally realize that "college was BULLSHIT?"
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at May 2, 2010 11:00 AM
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