Hey guys,
So for one of my classes, I had to watch the movie Paris Je T'aime (Paris, I love you). What I found to be really interesting about this movie was that it was made up of 18 short films. All of the movies dealt with some sort of relationship, but they were all SO different. Each "vignette" was directed by a different director so they all had a different feel to them as well. What was really cool was that even though all of these short films were so different, when they were put together they formed a whole story - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts kinda thing. I think its cool how you can have one comprehensive unit that's made up of things that are so different than each other.
In other news, we'll be filming our gdk tomorrow and wednesday. We unfortunately had to change the date from this saturday. Tomorrow will be a long day.
question, do we have class on thursday?
This film/s is very influenced by the nouvelle vague and the tremendous influence that Cahiers du Cinéma (one, if not the most important film magazine of an era) exerted on filmmakers all over the world in the 60's.
ReplyDeleteSee Paris Belongs to Us as a precedent. It features cameos by Claude Chabrol (who co-produced the film), Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy and Rivette who directed it. But there are many more examples from that time and I think one of the reasons was economical as well since basically everyone produced a short film but benefited from a feature length one!