Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is an example of the daring kind of ... more
70's filmmaking which is almost unimaginable today, using a kaleidoscope of imagery and a heady mix of cinematic styles to epitomize the music of Belgian born writher and singer of classic French cabaret torch songs, Jacques Brel.The film is based on the eponymous hit 1968 Greenwich Village revue which introduced Brel to a larger audience and cemented his reputation as a respected songwriter - someone who influenced the works of singer-songwriters who would follow such as Leonard Cohen and David Bowie.Hugely significant at the time due to it's lack of a traditional book, the show flew in the face of Broadway conventions, paving the way for every revisionist musical which has followed. The film reunites the original off-Broadway cast of Mort Shuman, Elly Stone and Alice Whitfield.But the real star of the film is Brel's music - brooding but beautiful, weary but ultimately uplifting, perfectly encapsulated when the great man himself appears to deliver a delicate and measured version of his classic standard Ne Me Quitte Pas, a unique and essential musical moment.
Advantages: Disturbing, charming, realistic and fantastical. Disadvantages: The fantasy side of things is a little uneven.
Anyone familiar with Will Self himself won't be surprised to learn that his critically acclaimed novels are saturated with the critic/writer/cartoonist's unsurpassed world-weariness, and this is only one of the issues that makes 'How the Dead Live' an incredibly demanding read. This odd and unsettling hybrid of social satire, gritty soap opera and urban fantasy doesn't mesh together with any kind of ease, but somehow results in a completely unique and compellingly disturbing book that's likely to leave quite an impact on the reader.
The novel is all about Lily, an old American immigrant of Jewish background who spends her final years livinginLondon, as well as the subsequent years of her death. The novel is written in the third-person for the most part, but the narration absorbs Lily's consciousness to such a degree that the reader ...
I'd like to tell you something about JacquesBrel, about the sound of his music, the anger of his (so many) political battles, the way he exposed to
the ridicule the hypocrisy of all those practising Catholics who frequent churches only to appear...
I d like to make you feel - to feel with heart and soul - his immense love for life and for love in itself and perhaps, with the help of the words of
his beautiful songs, I could give you an idea of who this immense Belgian poetry was but...
.... but if you have never felt him sing 'Ne me quittes pas', or if you have never seen him plays 'Mes prčnoms de Paris', with his sweet smile and that sarcastic light in the eyes, (so that you could never be sure if he was teasing, or if he really believed in what he was doing), well? if you really don't know nothing at all about him, if for you ...
pesadilla 09.09.2004
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