This morning’s cinema feed is La Reine des Pommes. I decided to watch this film after viewing the trailer on MK2.com. It looks like a chick-flick, but is just in French. The leading actress is quite pretty. So much for the eye ball catching reason for me to get up early to Beaubourg.
It is meant to be a French chick-flick, but not a successful one. I can tell the director might be heavily influenced by Godard’s Une Femme est Une Femme with the singing and dancing and the slip screens. There are moments of humor, but does work that well. The actions of the protagonist is not convincing – I know you are French but as far as I know and from what I observed from the audience in the cinema, even French people don’t do things like that. It’s just not credible. The highlight of this film might be the three major male role is played by one actor and it makes the ending very interesting and diggable.
The screening was interrupted by we being asked to leave the cinema due to security reason. When we were being evacuated we all sensed this horrible smell of burnt. People are waiting in the queue for refunding their tickets, I was one of them. And then I walked away, not wanna cause too much trouble for the cashier lady cause I already took way to much profit by paying 19.8 euros a month but watching more than 7 film in less than 2 weeks.
And then I realized the film’s director is the leading actress herself. I noticed there’s no position for lighting in the credit. So probably everything is shot with available light, which is still acceptable with 35 mm film image. In the credit, again, there goes supported by CNC.
So I checked out this director/actress Valérie Donzelli, who used to be an architecture student then started her cinema career as an actress. I was surprised to find out La Reine des Pommes is her first feature film as a director and her second one La Guerre est Déclarée was enrolled in this year’s Semaine de la Critique of Cannes – She really is into something. And it’s quite interesting to see in the trailer of La Guerre est Déclarée that the leading actors are the same as in La Raine des Pommes. You can already have the image of her asking her friends to help out with her film in your mind.
As I check the behind the scene info of La Raine des Pommes, I spot that she said she made this film partly because that her short film Il fait beau dans la plus belle ville du monde was rejected everywhere. So I went searching this film and found it on a website called 6nema (le court métrage sur le web). It’s a film about a pregnant woman having a date, and she did it when she was actually pregnant. And obviously now the baby is out and was helping her mum with her first feature length film. I bet the baby is in her second one as well. What a woman! So today I’ve been tracking her down for the entire time, trying to figure out how she got her way through this business. It was really something worth noting.
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