Water Lilies

[DMt.]

Another reason ( ) to watch it again.

Reasons to watch it again [in no order of priority];

L'Acquart's central, and ineffably amazing, performance as Marie.

Adele Haenel's criminally underpraised [by me anyway] performance as Floriane.

Louise Blachere's equally criminally underpraised [by all of us except snapsie] performance as Anne, Marie's true friend. [I still want to recompile the movie with their scene on the sofa included - if that's not love, real love, I don't know what the hell is].

Celine's zonking and superbly nuanced script.

Crystels's luminous and perfectly-attuned cinematography, a signature look that immediately sets NdP/WL apart from anything else you have ever seen.

Jean-Baptiste's equally-perfectly-attuned score.

I could [and do] go on...

[DMt.]

Yay the 6k!!

[Cheevers4ever]

DmT here's a question for you what film do you think is the better film Fucking Amal or Water Lilies? if you had to chose the one dvd and those were you're choices what film would you chose and why?

[DMt.]

Is this a better apple [FA/SML] than that sour cherry [NdP/WL]?

Or; FA/SML is Spring, NdP/WL is a hot Summer...

Hmmm...I would be obliged to choose l'Acquart, I think, because I see most of myself in her.

[snaps]

Is this a better apple [FA/SML] than that sour cherry [NdP/WL]?

Or; FA/SML is Spring, NdP/WL is a hot Summer...

I have just spent half-an-hour producing a very detailed irritable response to Cheevers question, which the pHP technology timed out and chewed up when I attempted to post. Actually I'm glad. I think Dave's point sums up it very succinctly for me, although I remain uncommitted to choosing one over the other.

[DMt.]

php timeout doom aaaaargh!! Copy to the clipboard as you go along, was all I could come up with, and even then I often enough forgot...

[Ian]

FA.

You don't see me running a WL fansite, now do you?

[DMt.]

Heaven forfend!

Please tell me - does this work on your machine? [Glitches, stutters etc]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19753485@N00/8044151169/in/photostream

Bump.

[katka]

cute

[DMt.]

VLC has very good slo-mo interpolation, smooth

Glad it works for you!

[flickr streams like a dead pig on my obsolete PC]

[fish]

Please tell me - does this work on youir machine? [Glitches, stutters etc]

W*rks beautifully Dave.
Such a lovely scene too.

[DMt.]

Ta Fishie! I think it a very tender and beautiful scene too [obviously] and the slo-mo does it no harm at all.

Source file plays fine on my PC, but streaming from flickr, ugh. So I'm glad it seems to work for all you plutocrats with recent-ish PCs...

[Dahls]

It runs pretty good on my computer too, Dave, even if its not at all "recent-ish"

I see your point about watching the thing in slo-mo, must take you up on that soon.

[Dahls]

Oh my, re-reading last post, it looks like I meant watching the film "the thing" in slo-mo
Maybe thats not a bad idea either (thinking of the 80¨s version, not new remake of course)

[DMt.]

It's perfectly in context, Dahls, don't sweat it, I knew which movie you meant.

Cronenburg's 'The Thing' in slo-mo, though? Blimey!

One of the best things about VLC for me, as a poor monoglot, is proper time-stretching of voices. Means I can juuuust aboout follow most of the idiomatic French or Swedish or whatever.