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| - | If there is one current film you have to see right now, it's ''[[Public Enemy Number One (Part 1)]]'', a biopic of French criminals [[Jacques Mesrine]] with sympathies for the European radical political [[urban guerrilla warfare|urban guerrilleros]] [[RAF]] and [[Red Brigades]], who eventually died in his craved for [[15 minutes of fame]]. | ||
| - | If you want to know who he was, watch this [[YouTumentary]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VKyi4RMPqs] set to "[[Comptines d'un autre été]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2ljWwIaHs <sup>here as The Pian (Life is a song)</sup>]" from the [[Yann Tiersen]] score of ''[[Amelie Poulain]]''. | + | '''''Haute Tension''''' (also known as '''''Switchblade Romance''''' in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and '''''High Tension''''' in the [[United States|U.S.]]) is a [[France|French]] [[horror film]] originally released in [[2003 in film|2003]], and later released in [[2004 in film|2004]] in the UK and [[2005 in film|2005]] in the U.S. and [[Canada]]. The film, directed by [[Alexandre Aja]], stars [[Cécile de France]], [[Maïwenn Le Besco]] and [[Philippe Nahon]]. |
| - | ''[[Public Enemy Number One (Part 1)]]'' is based on [[Jacques Mesrine]]'s [[1977]] [[autobiographical book]] "[[L'Instinct de mort]]" and stars [[Vincent Cassel]] (''[[L'Appartement]]'', ''[[Irréversible]]'')as Mesrine and costars [[Gérard Depardieu]], [[Mathieu Amalric]] and [[Cécile de France]] (''[[Haute Tension]]''). A sequel "L'Ennemi public n°1" ("Public Enemy Number One (Part 2)") was released in French theaters later that year. | + | ''Haute Tension'' was picked up by independent distributor [[Lions Gate Films]] following a successful screening at the Midnight Madness section of the [[2003 Toronto International Film Festival]]. Originally rated NC-17 in the USA, a few minor shots were cut from the final version of the U.S. release to get it down to the R rating. However, the original cut—referred to as an unrated version—is available on DVD. |
| - | <hr> | + | All of the effects are created by renowned horror make-up artist [[Giannetto De Rossi]], a favorite of late director [[Lucio Fulci]]. |
| - | [[France|French]] [[film producer]] [[Christian Fechner]] died today. He was 64. He produced a great number of films but is best-remembered for ''[[L'Aile ou la Cuisse]]'', ''[[Camille Claudel (film)|Camille Claudel]]'', ''[[Les Amants du Pont-Neuf]]'', ''[[Élisa]]'', and ''[[La Fille sur le pont]]''. | + | |
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| - | That last film, with its English title ''[[Girl on a Bridge]]'' was directed by [[Patrice Leconte]] and was featured on this blog two years ago[http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2006/09/17/girl-on-the-bridge-1999-patrice-leconte/]. The film is superb, it is now [[World Cinema Classics|World Cinema Classic]] #72. | + | |
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| - | ''Bertalda, Assailed by Spirits'' by [[Theodore Von Holst]] | + | |
| - | :"Bertalda then showed the piece of gold she was given to the goblins below, and they laughed themselves half-dead over it and hissed at her. At last they all pointed at me with their metal-stained fingers, and more and more wildly, and more and more densely, and more and more madly, the [[swarm]] of spirits came clambering up to her." --remix of ''[[Undine]]'' | + | |
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| - | [[Damsel in distress]] trope in ''[[Undine]]'', actually a take on [[tentacle eroticism]] of which I am so fond. | + | |
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| - | :''[[Structuralist Theory of Mythology]], [[Motif-Index of Folk-Literature]], [[morphology (folkloristics)]]'' | + | |
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| - | [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] (born [[November 28]], [[1908]]) will be a hundred coming Friday. I'm trying to find a good angle to approach his work. So far it is [[structure]], [[anthropologica]] and [[taboo]]. | + | |
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| - | The stucture angle leads to [[structuralism]], a [[French theory|French intellectual movement]] of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, based on [[Russian Formalism]] and the [[Prague school of structuralism]]. | + | |
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| - | That Claude Lévi-Strauss sought to investigate structures became apparent with the publication of his debut work ''[[The Elementary Structures of Kinship]]'' (1949). The word structure in its title betrays its conceptual affiliations to what was later to be called [[structuralism]]. | + | |
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| - | In a way, this is a bit facile since structure is a fundamental notion covering the whole of [[science]]; from a child's [[verbal description]] of a [[Snow|snowflake]], to the detailed [[scientific analysis]] of the properties of [[botany]], the concept of structure is an essential foundation of nearly every mode of [[inquiry]] and [[discovery]] in [[science]], [[philosophy]], and [[art]]. | + | |
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| - | I think the new approach heralded by structuralism was the move a way from [[dogmatism]], [[great man theory]] and other subjective "methods" to a more [[genre theory|genre theoretic]] approach in the [[social sciences]]. | + | |
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| - | Our next angle is the angle of [[anthropologica]] and [[taboo]]. The interest in anthropologica, my neoglogism for sexual anthropology started with [[Margaret Mead]] also deserve mention here as well as ''[[The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia]]''. Strauss's work ''[[The Elementary Structures of Kinship]]'' dealt with such notions as [[alliance theory]], the [[incest taboo]] and yes, the [[exchange of women]], what we would call swinging in contemporary society. These subjects gave Strauss his place in the awakening [[sexual revolution]]. | + | |
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| - | ''[[The Raw and the Cooked]]'' (1964) and his memoirs ''[[Tristes Tropiques]]'' (1955). | + | |
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Haute Tension (also known as Switchblade Romance in the UK and High Tension in the U.S.) is a French horror film originally released in 2003, and later released in 2004 in the UK and 2005 in the U.S. and Canada. The film, directed by Alexandre Aja, stars Cécile de France, Maïwenn Le Besco and Philippe Nahon.
Haute Tension was picked up by independent distributor Lions Gate Films following a successful screening at the Midnight Madness section of the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. Originally rated NC-17 in the USA, a few minor shots were cut from the final version of the U.S. release to get it down to the R rating. However, the original cut—referred to as an unrated version—is available on DVD.
All of the effects are created by renowned horror make-up artist Giannetto De Rossi, a favorite of late director Lucio Fulci.
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