MON FILS A MOI (MARTIAL FOUGERON, A+++++)

I just found some interesting blogs written by people who seem to love Alain Robbe-Grillet. These blogs are:

1.ESOTIKA EROTICA PSYCHOTICA by Mike Kitchell
http://esotika.blogspot.com/

Mike wrote about LA BELLE CAPTIVE here:
http://esotika.blogspot.com/2007/03/la-belle-captive-alain-robbe-grillet.html

EDEN AND AFTER is in his most favorite top ten films of all time:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/top_tens/index.html#kitchell


2.Jeremy Richey’s blog
http://mooninthegutter.blogspot.com/


QUOTE OF THE DAY

“MY NOVELS ARE NEVER “ABOUT” ANYTHING, NOR ARE THEY ABOUT IDEAS OR IMAGES”

The quote above is what Alain Robbe-Grillet said in an interview given to Claud DuVerlie. This interview is in the magazine NEW LITERARY HISTORY: Vol.11 No.3, On Narrative and Narratives: II (Spring 1980). You can catch a glimpse of this interview at:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-6087(198021)11%3A3%3C527%3ABTIAIW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z


--I have seen nine French films so far in the 2007 French film festival in Bangkok. These are the list of films in my preferential order:

1.MON FILS A MOI (MY SON) (2006, Martial Fougeron, A+)


2.CHANGE OF ADDRESS (2006, Emmanuel Mouret, A+)

Somehow the style of this film reminds me of THE MAGIC GLOVES (2003, Martin Rejtman, Argentina, A+).


3.PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES (2006, Alain Resnais, A+)


4.THE PASSENGER (2006, Eric Caravaca, A+)

I don’t like something in the story of this film, but I give A+ to the film just because of the atmosphere.


5.THE PAGE TURNER (2006, Denis Dercourt, A+)


6.YOU AND ME (2006, Julie Lopes Curval, A+/A)


7.LA MOME (2007, Olivier Dahan, A)

I wish there is a found-footage film mixing LA MOME with Jennifer Hudson.

You can read the interview of Olivier Dahan by Michael Guillen at:
http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2007/06/la-vie-en-rose-evening-class-interview.html


8.ORCHESTRA SEATS (2006, Daniele Thompson, A-)


9.FOUR STARS (2006, Christian Vincent, C+)

I don’t know what happened to Christian Vincent, because I like two earlier films of his: THE DISCREET (1990, A-), THE SEPARATION (1994, A-).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898603/


--Right now MON FILS A MOI has a high chance to be in the list of my top ten most favorite feature films of 2007. I like this film very much, not because I think it is as great a film as AMOUR D’ENFANCE (2001, Yves Caumon, A+), but because the story of MON FILS A MOI just reminds me of the real life of my best friend. Seeing this film is like seeing my best friend’s life turning into a film. This film is so real, real, real, real, real to me, and that’s why I worship it.

I hope someone makes MON FILS A MOI 2, and in this sequel, the mother (Nathalie Baye) will meet a real formidable opponent, because in this sequel, her son (Victor Sevaux) will get a chance to further his piano lesson, and his teacher will be Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert). Just imagine the mother and the piano teacher fighting each other.


An image from MON FILS A MOI

http://outnow.ch/Media/Img/2006/MonFilsAMoi/