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 In honor of Sam Raimi’s first film as a director in nine years. Trailer for his brilliant horror film from 2009, “Drag me to Hell”

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"Color my life with the chaos of trouble"

~500 days of summer

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La Poste France had issued a special personalised sheet of stamps printed on holographic foil to celebrate the release of the James Cameron animated film "Avatar" in 2009 featuring the 2 main characters of the film - Princess Neytiri and Jake Sully.

(via Philaquely Moi: 3D - Holographic Stamps - Update)

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The Big Screen and I, Part II

What better way to kick this post off than with a roadshow?

It’s been over three years since I published the first partof this project. No real reason for that. Other projects just got in the way. Then the muse struck and I wrote most of this post in a couple of days. It might be a few weeks before I post Part III; it might be another three years. Who knows! (Hopefully it’ll be sooner rather…

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He's Just Not That Into You - Official Trailer 2009

It’s an old movie, but if you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it. Do you feel like your luck just sucks in regards to relationships? Well, you are not the only one to feel that way. This movie shows that a lot of women go through what we do. I must say, I did get very upset watching the movie, but more at myself for not seeing this movie sooner. Enjoy and you’re welcome. 

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He’s Just Not That Into You, 2009

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500 Days of Summer (2009)

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J'ai tué ma mére

Spoiler Alert! This article contains very specific details as well as the film resolution. Some videos may seem inappropriate.

“I Killed My Mother” is Xavier Dolan’s first film released in 2009 as an autobiographical story that shows his relationship with his mother in his youth, if possible, because he was quite young when he wrote, direct and acted in the movie (19 years old).

The story develops around a specific idea: It’s easier to love your parents as a kid, because you need each other.

This was the beginning of Dolan’s inclination to depict reckless female figures; they are beautiful, too young to be mothers, single, immature and somehow annoying. Still there’s a very interesting detail: it’s the son who drives them crazy, but still their voice of reason.

Dolan’s mother characters are always eccentric and never role models. They complain, because their children ruined their lives, but they won’t live without them.

J’ai tué ma mère is the film where Dolan began his excellent actors selection, is when he started working with Anne Dorval (Chantal Lemming), Suzanne Clément (Julie Cloutier), François Arnaud (Antonin Rimbaud), Niels Schneider (Éric) and himself (Hubert Lemming).

The film begins with a quote, something that establishes Dolan’s style for his next movies.

There are testimonies and confessions; this helps the main character to say what his mother is unable to listen, because they are always shouting one another. Each reflection he does, if it is written it is shown on screen, if he is recording it he says it in a black and white shade, talks about how much he despises his mother, but still loves her as you love someone you see every day.

The story starts with Hubert and Chantal having breakfast. Chantal is far from classy and she is quite noisy when she eats, which drives Hubert crazy. He doesn’t like her, he sees her as someone tacky and somehow kitsch due to the way she dresses and how her home is decorated.

They both treat each other awfully. Chantal hates having to drive her son to school or to cook for him, when this is something mothers are obliged to. Hubert is quite rude when he talks to his mother, he calls her deaf, crazy and that she seems to suffer from Alzheimer.

As the movie goes on, Hubert has to deal with his homosexuality, his short temper and his single parent situation. It’s difficult since Chantal keeps on doing things that she knows that annoy Hubert and Hubert keeps on being an ungrateful b****; they both need to grow up.

The plot of the film is when Hubert lies about not having a mother and Chantal becomes aware of it, and as a maternal substitute he’s got Miss Joulie Cloutier, his professor. This is something no child should do to his progenitor, but for me is just delightful the revenge Hubert takes against his mother: he starts trusting his teacher more than his mother and that hurts Chantal.

Miss Cloutier and Hubert have a lot in common, they’ve got grandma’s money, they have bad relations with their parents and they are young and naïve.

In this film Dolan starts experimenting with fancy movie effects such as ralenti and leitmotif, which he uses whenever Hubert has to confront something: his mother, a new school, cheeting…

Dolan’s has also a very characteristic kind of shot in this film. Actually they are three shots; the scene starts with a dirty medium shot which means that is a frontal shot with two characters on scene. Then it moves on into two close-ups, from this two characters, when they talk they are screened alone. Here are some examples:

   We’ve also got another Dolan’s classic:

Along with the already mentioned visual effects, in this films is where all his rêve adolescent concept began. Hubert’s character has a quite active imagination since he wants to be a writer. He has some maternal hallucinations and also he dreams of being able to be violent, to react how he really wants. He always managed to keep this in order to not hurt more, if possible, his mother and to keep peaceful his surroundings.

Another quite “romantic” and teen aspect about this film is how the réalisateur plays with light and the environment. Sometimes with light it looks as it would look when we have teary eyes and we look into light. Quite youthful, isn’t it?

There’s no mother, like your own mother.

This film has a lot of reflections. I learnt that to save a relation, sometimes the best thing you can do is to take your distance. Also, it doesn’t matter how much you would prefer other people over your own parents, if someone hurt them you would kill the filthy human that hurt them. This is quite difficult to explain, but it is summarized as you do not love your mother, but at the same time you are unable to not love her.

This film is full of situations where mother and son try to proof each other things. Hubert tries to show he can live by his own while Chantal tries to show that she can be a loving mother. Both succeed, but it doesn’t matter, because they are unable to see it in one another and it’s always been known that is quite easy to criticize rather than to say something nice or encouraging.

There’s so much love and hate between them. Chantal accepts her son’s homosexuality, but she is quite hurt that he wasn’t planning to tell her about it. Then she and his father send him to a boarding school, when he is told about it, Hubert reacts violently.

Among all the gut wrenching dialogues and the lovely shots, we can also find Audrey Hepburn and James Dean hanging on walls and lovely English interferences within French. This film is Dolan’s capo laboro.

It’s got great soundtrack, great actors and it’s his first film which I find quite challenging.

I would like to end this article with one of my favorite quotes:

“What is important is that we are together now” Chantal Lemming said as she hugged her son and started remembering the old good times.

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500 Days of Summer, 2009

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