( simple ..)
Sadly, having no European language such that I know the real meaning, culture, nuance, ( irony even?) and yes intent behind words, I could not look up some intelligent grown up, non woke, European film review, and understand Italian or French critique, of....
As usual Paulo ( the good one) has the very best music
But I know for sure, the rather dreary and pedictable Michael Caine, never " my" homeland's national treasure as i think he polluted it with innanity, in fact was always the crass side of it.....ditto Keitel...
But only one person ...
I must have been.in a not so happy/ healthy phase seeing it first time, because revisiting
Paulo simply brought out something- used those two not so enjoyable actors, in such a perfect way that even they seem to have all the intelligence and depth of Voltaire.... and are frankly almost perfect.
https://www.monolithmedium.com/youth-2015-voltaire-sorrentino
" Multi layered" - even the dance scenes say something ... fundamental. Not ' feminine' ... but ... impossible to wordify, and that is the point, in that the real genius of film, and thought, knows many points are beyond, making...
So ...use true artistry in imagery..as he is king of.
not banal bullshit
Even if we ...or ( i never know if grown up ' intellectual' cinema works for others, not so used to it)... is it everyone? know there are so many irrationalities or just weirdnesses in humanity ... some testament or magnum opus can only ever be incomplete
But Paulo at least tries. And the all-must-have5-stars drooling over the newer Korean kid on the block ... which says nothing, except Korea is catching up ..
In the great Marathon to say something....
That maybe helps figure how to live..
But i also know, even if i have seen inside these kinds of jetset silly spa places ( far less happy than he portrays) .. Paolo.... Sorrentino...( oops Paolo! ... i always thought hetoo a Paulo.. ..
....Paulo Coehlo the evil one largely pimped this mermism) makes me laugh...
And i dont go for silly jetset nightlife activity, or Miss Worlds....
But the scene with his daughter " you didnt have to tell me that" is just ball breaking fabulous, beautiful...
And...grown up old smelly dad still bunking up with daughter... even speaking of who is best between the sheets...
Unlike any Britisher, Paolo... likes women!
Does not fear sexual politics..or women ( i am sure some Brit review will have termed him Miss Oh Jennyist ... as they did with Michele..Houellebecq the first great Merm-o-cult parodyist...)
He lets them, his screen women, Be...
and doesnt take them seriously.... the key
( mraning, equal...equality
were all wonky
except me)
The whole damn thing in fact maybe better sums up the tragicom of life better than La Grande Belazza
And celebrates unjudgementally the REAL foibles of " human"
( i had missed first time i saw it, maybe in a less perfect zennyapty mood back then)
However.... there is one simple message ...
( more foundational than the failure to actually judge as surely he MUST know, that the infidelity of the ' upper'/ celeb classes is so so dull, which it is... a sick sad neurosis, as its far harder* to be faithful, always... and thus more fulfilling in the end..)
... seize the day... life is short; or zombie braindeath can come on even in a successful woman ..
make the most, now
( so i was thinking at dawn maybe there should be two ' rating' systems: one for newish comers to the arena of Western modern thought, such as relatively good Korean films, however shallow and saccharine and one dimensional compared to Sorrentino et al. But still impoving on previous eras in that place ...
And a second hidden ( parrallel but kept hidden) rating system for those in the several-hundred-years of real grappling with the fuckwreck of modernism stream, post enlightenment.. as in Sorrentino .... adding to the French new wave... and some earlier Italian film the woman director of the 60s i aleays forget her name the BEST ..... all largely adding to the truest genius of all
... but it cannot work.... there is no way to award not so good newcommers a sincere 5 stars " well done, you caught up... a bit, keep on that course and you may end up Rohmer, Sorrentino ... too!"
And not take away for future or even now generations, the fact: all a bit pathetic compared to Bette... Paolo's Jep... real Joycean stream of MollyBloomism - modernism in Frogstuff..... And all true grown up explorations of the weirdness of the human condition, in between
None of which harmed anyone, or reduced anyone to lesser, and above all i know they... made me THINK.... and still do...
* one key to happines that cannot be avoided, as i ... ' learned' ... but more: a philanderous father, never happy, never zenned...
Meteenage, deciding " dont be him" ... is one thing, and correct. One only realises later on that it is quite possible to become someone for whom only one person ( i gonna give up her " human" ... it is all too specific animal) ... persons are ( be ..came), as in Lang's song above, thought, nuance and above all myth... or just belief..( meme, if we must).. if you really believe in one lifepartner, helpmeet .. then no one else you are around, is in any way desirable... at all. Ever...You just dont think of anyone else ever like that...
To have been there, in that mode... knowing all appetites are rather artificial .. and that committment is Grander... So truly Belazza, it works...
Is ... real. I was a normal randy 'red blooded' lusty one... but committ, and something else, takes over.
And... even if maybe confused about the 'morality' which is a fey justword, compared to beauty in true helpmeetism...at least Paolo LOVES children, too....
you can see in that film.
Every talk about children in uk seems to have ' abuse' tacked on.... Paolos dirty old man, enters a child's room... to simply mentor,
as a caring elder
No one can think like that in UK any more...
I even gave up...too, dangerous, solo, as a man to be near kids....
