Year: 2009 Director / Writer: Rebecca Miller Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder
Produced by Brad Pitt (!!)
Japanese Title: 50歳の恋愛白書
My Rating: ★★★ 3点 Watch Situation: At mom's house, with CATV
ケーブルテレビで放送されていたのを偶然見た。こんな映画が存在することすら知らなかったワ。
Year: 2011 Director / Writer: Miranda July Miranda July, Hamish Linklater
My Rating: ★★☆ 2.5点 Watch Situation: At movie theater （渋谷イメージフォーラム、14：00の回、観客6名）
キルスティンのご推薦を受けて、早速ミランダ・ジュライのThe Futureを観てきました。と言っても1週間以上前だけど。妊娠9カ月の巨大なお腹を抱えてね。感想としてはNot my type。第二のソフィア・コッポラ的な説明がされている時があるみたいだけど、ちょっと違うと思う。ソフィアはアート性よりもガール性が強くて、ミランダはガール性よりもアート性が強いって感じ！？ 私はアート的な感覚が低いので、きっとミランダの作品から受け取れるものが少なかったんだと思うな。ソフィアの方が、ストーリーもビジュアルも彼女の好みとしての全体像が分かりやすくてイイ。
The Futureはあくまで小説的な作品として評価されるものなんだよ、きっと。だから『ノルウェイの森』の映画版を観終わったときのような、何かが足りない感じがこみ上げてきたんだよね。……と思ってamazonでThe Futureを検索してみたら小説がなかった、、、ということは原作として映画用に作られた作品だったのか。んんー、でもやっぱり小説としてのほうがいいな。映像ではない。
ミランダの小説No One
Belongs Here More Than You: Stories（いちばんここにに会う人）の評価が高いようなので、ぜひ読んでみたいね。岸本佐知子さんの翻訳だし。でもタイミングとして、臨月の今読む感じではないかな。今読めるのはクドカンの『俺だって子供だ！』なんだよね。こういう自分の状況に合った本しか受付けないの。体と脳って不思議なもんだワ。
Year: 2011 Director / Writer: Lars von Trier Kirstin Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer
Sutherland
My Rating: ★★ 2点 (ムー映画 by 町蔵さん) Watch Situation: At mom’s home alone （during maternity leave）
The expression “Moo Movie” by Machizo-san helped me a lot through
the complicated feelings left inside me after I watched this. In first half, it’s
OK. I understand that the Lars wanted to focus on the depressed girl who has
the battle of her feeling towards her marriage at her big wedding night. Well,
this is understandable for me, but in Part 2 the concepts movies to the strange
planet called Melancholia. Actually, I didn’t know about story lines at all, so
I was like “what?” And I didn’t even notice the name of Lars at this moment. I
was like, uh I know his name, I’ve heard it before for sure, he must be one of
the famous directors… Then, right after I watched this movie, I felt something
strange about this movie, and went straight to the internet and searched about
it. Yes, my instinct was right. The director who makes my feeling uncomfortable
in a strange way must be him, Lars von Trier. Not that I hate him or his
pictures, I just know that his films are not my type. And Melancholia proved it
again.
Well as soon as I find out the director, my curiosity to find out
the inside of the movie cast away, but I felt immediately that I had to find
out inside of Kirstin’s thoughts acting on this movie. And, Yes! There were
long interview of her on YouTube (about 30 minutes long).
The Interview
According to this interview, there were couples of discovery that
can’t be seen from the movie.
1.She wanted to
be in this film because the director is Lars, the famous one.
2.She didn’t
even know what the ending will be during shooting and it wasn’t big deal for
her.
3.She wants to
work with Tarantino
4.The best
movie for this year (at the moment of the interview) was “The Future” directed by
Miranda July. (I must go see!)
In my
overview of these, Kirstin was the girl that I wanted her to be. I mean she is
a especially natural straight girl as seen and talk. She never betrays. Even if
she wasn’t an actor, I want to know her as a friend seriously.
Writer: Nancy Oliver Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
My Rating: ★★★★★ 5点 Watch Situation: At home alone
I really really really like this movie, much my
type than Brokeback Mountain. There are so many scenes that I couldn’t help crying.
As the writer says in the special feature in the DVD, a man having love doll as
his girl friend is just a setting, but this movie is more about the inside of
human relationships and about one town gets connected through the doll.
Not just the story is great, but the casts,
atmosphere of the story (very calm and warm), music, the ideas and so on. I
just had to put this movie in my top 10 list.
Year: 2005 Director: Ang Lee Jake Gyllenhaal,
Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
My Rating: ★★★ 3点 Watch Situation: At
home with husband
Won 3 Oscar 2006
It is very complicated picture for woman to
review this, because main cats are both man. I can’t imagine put my feelings on
either of them. Maybe I don’t need to think of sex of the main casts in first
place, as director says like “this is a pure love story, not a gay movie”. I
understand that in my head, but bottom line is that is not possible to think as
a man for me who is woman.
My husband’s impression on this movie was “what
a deadly and sad story”. Having a thought of “what if he was…” in edge of my
head, there were another thoughts inside me that man might think friendship and
love are more closely than woman. It’s just my thoughts.
Through all the scenes, the pictures were so
beautiful!! The pretty mountain, the dark clear blue sky and wide clouds, and
tall green wood in forests…. At the
moment I saw the mountain, the picture of Rocky came into me. I once lived near
Rocky Mountain. As I saw the picture of the forests in this movie, I guessed
that this was Wyoming State because of the shape of the wood. I’m glad that I
have a instinct of guessing what state by just looking at the atmosphere, yeah! （BUT!!! According to
IMDB, it was pictured in Canadian Rocky…）
「ブロークバックマウンテン」というのは、崩壊（ブローク）＋ゲイ（アナルセックス=バック）＋カウボーイ（山）の組み合わせことばなのかしらね、というのがこの映画を見ながら私が考えていたこと。ま、きっとそんなplay on wordな感覚もあるのでしょう。実在する山ではないようなので。
