Categories: cinema
Date: 17 March 2007 04:49:48
The Young Lieutenant: a great drama focusing on an undercover police unit in Paris. The film takes unexpected turns, and its focus on the people that make up the unit, rather than the crimes themselves, draws you in to each of the characters, and their lives, struggles and joys. I felt I truly got to know them and where they came from, why they were there, and what they wanted from the job. Moments of great comedy lighten the mood occasionally. One rather dramatic scene had most in the cinema, me included, squirming and peering through our fingers: he a pathologist, performing an autopsy, using a saw to cut into the body -- we didn't see it, but the sound was enough.
I'm off to see Hors de Prix, starring the wondrous Audrey Tautou, tomorrow: my last film of the French Film Festival. And, so far, and I have no reason to expect tomorrow to be different, I have greatly enjoyed each and everyone of them.
Coming out of the cinema, the dark clouds threatened rain: and rain fell, heavily, though scatteredly, on the drive home. It resumed its constant heaviness as I got home, and it's continued: thanks be to God, we, and I mean all of Australia not just Sydney or NSW, does need it.