Anyone seeen Olivier Assayas' "Clean"?

Demonlover had that sense of cool, but sexy women and convoluted cyberplots just leave me limp. Suave but dumb.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000YDAJLI/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B000YDAJLI&creative=374929&camp=211189

oh dear!

i want to see this anyway.

I loved this movie.

'clean' or 'boarding gate'

i liked this. nolte awesome in it, yeah

dayum, just saw 'boarding gate', sold here as trashy semi-porn erotic thriller... not entirely wrongly.

feat. kim gordon as cantonese-speaking gangster.

I think I saw him in some doc about Bergman once. Went on and on about how great he was without really saying anything much...or maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

on banriquit's sort-of recommendation i watched "Summer Hours" and actually loved it until the final act which dropped in quality a fair bit. the Musée D'Orsay scenes seem more than a little out of place and play out like ads for the Museum (the film was partly funded by that organisation, i think) and the last scenes back at the house are overly choreographed. overall still very good though.

the Musée D'Orsay scenes seem more than a little out of place and play out like ads for the Museum

yeah this is troo. wouldn't trust my recommends really. i was living in a house that had sentimental importance for a lot of people (inc me), and that was being emptied by its new owner, who happened to be a tard. so it was unusually resonant.

it moves beautifully up until that point and the acting is superb. the scenes with the housekeeper were particularly moving.

Loved Summer Hours -- it's so delicate and glancing that I can understand someone feeling disappointed. Juliette Binoche (whom I didn't recognize for the first ten minutes) is on some kind of roll.

+ Jérémie Renier so hot in this

http://lightsensitive.typepad.com/.a/6a01156f86ecd3970c011571e0c9c0970b-800wi

Assayas too. So is the kid who played Charles Berling's son.

Emile Berling, his actual son?

i mean, i didn't know that myself until i looked through the cast list and i can't actually remember him in it. i remember him in A Christmas Tale.

Binoche is either always on a roll or i just see her good stuff.

Summer Hours is great, but Boarding Gate does nothing for me.

Yeah, his worst.

it moves beautifully up until that point and the acting is superb. the scenes with the housekeeper were particularly moving.

the part near the end where she visits the mostly empty house was really good but otherwise i couldnt find much to 'hold on to' during the rest of the movie. blu ray looked p good tho

also hype for his carlos the jackal miniseries

coming to amc in fall

super-siked

whoa miniseries? rad

i'm hit or miss with this guy but ok

it's gonna be a miniseries and a film and a ride at universal studios

carlos is, uh, "available".

well tbh it's already available to buy on DVD from amazon fr.

Durée : 270 minutes

o_O

That's ok, right, for a 3-part miniseries?

remember, we can do 400 posts on Inception for a weekend, but there can't be a new Assayas thread.

Who is stopping you from posting new threads?

Why would you want to post a new Assayas thread when it hasn't even reached 50 posts?

cuz this is about one film

we have plenty of threads that are about many films...why don't you post one if it really bothers you?

no. the length isn't a problem, it's actually part of the attraction.

of the film, i mean, not this thread.

for one thing it is really easy to see a big blockbuster but access to assaya films is dependent on where you live?

and i mean, you have to be checking amazon.fr?

Has anyone seen it? Assayas is all over the place for me, but when he's good, he's great

I noted on the detrius thread that Assayas is probably my favorite filmmaker of the last decade.

It's pretty easy to see videos osf Assayas films, you know, the digital revolution

"Carlos" pretty ok - great set design, costumes, etc. - but El Chacal as a character is just such an insufferable prick it made it tough to give a $hit about what happened about halfway thru. Still worth sticking with it for the supporting cast and some awes scenes.

Assayas' docu on Hou-Hsiao Hsien (sp?) for French TV pretty great, tho.

seen first part of carlos -- gd amazing. incredibly fast. kind of zodiac meets munich... ON SPEED.

don;t watch the shortened version

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/magazine/26assayas-t.html?ref=global-home

this is nice

was kind of disappointed by j hoberman's piece, which seems to have been written on the basis of the cannes screening. like, it just is not true that carlos is always on screen. there are bits that are quite notable for his absence. and it's not really very much about carlos as media star; if anything it downplays that side. and it isn't just a wham-bam thriller. i can't remember 'che' so well because it was boring, but 'carlos' is just as 'serious' (just not boring).

let's start a fucking Carlos thread

what other assayas is worth checking out besides clean and summer hours?

Irma Vep is a jolly bit of fun.

what other assayas is worth checking out besides clean and summer hours?

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i think i need to see late august early sept?

this is alright i guess

not really worth watching

I watched it again last May -- loved Nolte's performance even more.

nolte is good, so is maggie

it's a pretty slight film tho

most of Assayas' films flirt with slightness though; there's an evanescence to them. That's what makes them so attractive to me.

they seem in danger of just floating away sometimes

i want to see more though, summer hours is the beat i have seen

^^ my favorite

i think 'demonlover' is the best but i really came around on 'summer hours'

Nice low-key film. Happily, no huge close-ups of hypodermics plunging into veins. Cheung is good, although I'm not sure she warranted an award at Cannes. Nolte is fantastic.

is boarding gate any good