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Belles à désespérer

Le blogue consacré au film À vos marques… Party! s’est refait une beauté cette semaine. J’en ai profité pour mettre en valeur une superbe photo de Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin qui joue le rôle principal dans le film. La talentueuse Mélissa fait la une de la section culturelle du plus récent magazine Elle Québec (numéro d’avril). Je vous jure que vous n’aurez jamais vus des yeux aussi grands et aussi expressifs. Wow.

Et puisqu’on discute de beauté féminine, j’ai retrouvé la page couverture du Elle Québec dont je vous parlais dans mon billet précédent.

Messieurs les québécois, vous êtes drôlement bien gâtés.

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Truer than a true story

I saw The Life of Others, the German movie which is nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language film category. It’s a very good film, especially when you consider that it’s a first feature for the writer/director. You shouldn’t miss it.

I was reading an interview with the filmmaker, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, and found this passage about fact and fiction, a comment the director used through many interviews:

The research was one big emotional and intellectual roller coaster ride. All of these stories somehow influenced my film. I spent almost too much time with the realities. But in the end, I had reached a point where I knew that I would be able to create a fictional story that was somehow truer than a true story. I do believe that fiction can actually be richer in content than fact. But perhaps that is a very German thought. The German word for fiction and poetry is « Dichtung », which actually means something like « Density ».

Fiction as density. I like that idea very much, especially when you consider that, as is true with this movie and so many others, the range of reactions it gets from critics is as fascinating as the movie itself.