five minutes at a time....

[thoreau]

Tonight was an evening in - watching the brilliant 'collective' film "Paris Je'Taime" - 20 five minute shorts that tell a personal story of Paris... from a boy helping a Muslim girl after skinhead boys trip her.... to a pair of men meeting in a printing press and declaring that they'd loved one another in a previous life and now immediately love one another in the present life... or a nurse in a maternity ward singing for five minutes to a baby - - its all very beautiful - and I'm so glad i found this film. It was remarkable! I'd give it a full five stars - it was brilliant, charming, poignant and unnerving in it's simplicity and five minute frames. some of the stories were edited where they appeared to run out of time - literally ending precisely on 5 minutes in length even if characters were in mid-sentence or in the middle of something. Simply wonderful! What made it all so wonderful were these shorts had participants including Gérard Depardieu, Gus Van Sant, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Wes Craven, Marianne Faithfull, Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gena Rowlands and many others.

I sat and ate a lovely cheddar cheese melted sandwich and a cup of tomato soup. it made it even better.....



THE VAMPIRE:

AND ONE DAY YOU KISSED ME:

Comments

[figarobo.livejournal.com]

What a sweet and lovely post! Just makes me want to be there sitting next to you and Miss Kate, reaching over every so often and just squeezing your hand.

[notdefined.livejournal.com]

But where are your shorts?

my shorts?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

My Calvin Kleins are right here......

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We saw that movie in a theater a few months back. (Where "a few" is somewhere between three and ten.) I thought it was a great, for the most part, although a few of them -- notably the "Vampire" one -- didn't do anything for me.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

I loved it because it was so many points of view - so fast. I loved the short about past lives and love - - some of the writing was brilliant. The one with the blind man - was beautiful. The nanny singing to babies.

I only posted the Vampire because it came up first in the search under the movie title. :)