Review:
John Waters Pick Announced: LOVE SONGS
Published April 27, 2009 1 0 CommentsTags: Alex Beaupain, Andrew O'Hehir, Baltimore, bisexuality, Cannes, France, french, Jed Dietz, John Waters, Love Songs, Maryland, Maryland Film Festival, Oscars, Paris
May 8, 7:00pm
JOHN WATERS TO HOST 11TH MFF PICK!
French romantic films set in Paris are legendary; filmmakers from a variety of cultures have worked hard to emulate the specific energy of young people exploring their sexuality that French filmmakers seem to capture so easily. Director/screenwriter Christophe Honoré steps firmly into the middle of this tradition, and then twists and turns, and then throws a couple of punches. Honore’s world includes threesomes, bi-sexuality, and startling new ways to deal with grief.
Built around twelve songs by Alex Beaupain, Love Songs is the anti-Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Salon film critic Andrew O’Hehir describes it as a “blend of François Truffaut’s wistful Parisian sentimentalism and Pedro Almodóvar’s acrid polysexual comedy.”
Love Songs screened in competition at Cannes 2007, was nominated for numerous awards, including four Cesars (French Oscars), but the film never played on more than 6 screens in this country. The remarkable cast includes Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of actors Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.
– Jed Dietz, Director, Maryland Film Festival
http://blog.md-filmfest.com/2009/04/27/john-waters-pick-announced-love-songs/See it and hear it
--Jack
Romance, scenes of Paris, beautiful songs, and a tango of love affairs, what more could one want in a film? I have wanted to see Louis Garrel in scenes like this ever since Bertolucci’s The Dreamers kept him from the full embrace with Michael Pitt. The interplay of Thanatos and Eros is moving, as well.