Pauline Acquart - Retenez Son Nom

[Santi]

Especially because you remembered to put a pic of L'Acquart in the post as well..!

What a picture !
She wants losing her virginity for to be bigger .
She don't value anything, like the kiss at the end of the film .

It is a sex scene without sexual pleasure.
One lost it and other has curiosity.

[fish]

...It is a sex scene without sexual pleasure...

I kept thinking "why doesn't she kiss her?" all through that scene.
I found it very sad, especially for Marie.





Almost complete silence on the Billionaire front today.
Almost.

Then I had a Facbok feed from Serene saying she had posted a bunch of new pics.
She had.
All from Rome, and entirely made up of pics of the crew.
Not a Lydia pic to be found.

But maybe it's a forerunner of busy times ahead, yes?

[Dahls]

It seems so.
Brilliant finds, Fishy.

[Owen]

Hello Owen.
Great to have you with us.
I was away yesterday splashing around in the sea with a couple of kids, so I missed your arrival.

"Coconut Grove" is on Vimeo if you haven't caught that one yet. https://vimeo.com/38620761
It's one of a few (including Dutch Room) that Pauline made for the clothing company Indress.

fish
Thank you for all your thorough research! Good to see that Pauline is slowly progressing in her career. Hope to see her in more movies like NdP, not by style but by prominence and interesting roles.

I haven't seen "Coconut Grove" either this will keep me busy for subtitles.

Already, a scant two years later, she is so different from the gamine Marie, she is a young woman.

But! In the meeting on the steps, Pauline and the other girl's banter and singing - I always thought there was something highly risqué in that other girl's version of 'Laissez tomber les filles'...un jour c'est ta con rentera, was it? It cracks Pauline up, anyway

Yes, this role is very different from Marie, but the pessimism remains. The filming of her legs, the lipstick, show her growth, not only physical I mean. I wonder why she has chosen the role.
Do you have a theory about the reasons for Sandy's suicide? I think the point of the short film was to show that distress can be completely unseen and even if the person is acting normally, she may be suffering and struggling for her life. Or maybe one can be unaware even of the existence of such struggle in him. The film leaves me perplexed.
These themes have been explored remarquably on the show House M.D., when one of the doctors kills himself and not even House can find out why.

About the risqué variation of the song, I tried but failed to understand exactly what they were singing the first time; it seemed different from the official lyrics. The second time they sing, I hear "Un jour c'est toi qu'on [laissera]", I didn't hear very well all the consouns of "laissera" so I guessed it was it. It is however not "con" but "qu'on" = "it is you that will be [some verb]".

...It is a sex scene without sexual pleasure...

I kept thinking "why doesn't she kiss her?" all through that scene.
I found it very sad, especially for Marie.

That's exactly why I find this scene excellent. It averts the dangerous path of representing a sexual relationship between minors and plays on the theme of power of the movie. While not sexual, the scene is very tense.
More generally I like how this movie subverts all the tropes of films about lesbians (ie representation of sex) and coming-of-age films (the parents are completely absent here).

[DMt.]

If they had done the longed-for kiss, it would have been a love scene, instead of the tragic and perilous tightrope of feelings and power relations that it is.

La Sciamma herself was not quite happy with this scene, one gathers; but I'm at a loss as to how it could have been bettered, dramatically.

[Santi]

If they had done the longed-for kiss, it would have been a love scene, instead of the tragic and perilous tightrope of feelings and power relations that it is..

Yeeeesssss!

I think the same exactly.

[Santi]

downloading Coconut Grove…
(70Mb)

[fish]

...instead of the tragic and perilous tightrope of feelings and power relations that it is...

True, but that wasn't enough to stop me wanting it.
I'm sure NdP was better without a kiss there though as it left such an ache by its absence, and served to heighten the anticipation when it did come.
All on display on Marie's face, thanks to the extraordinary talent of Mlle. Acquart.



I don't know what's worse watching over her, the Devil or the Cardinals.

I think the point of the short film was to show that distress can be completely unseen and even if the person is acting normally...

Au Septième Jour to me, even without subtitles, seems like an essay on the tragic consequences of the illness of depression.
As in Australia I guess most countries have agencies/organisations to help sufferers of depression but sadly there are many people who's illness goes unrecognised and untreated.
We've all seen signs in ourselves, in our relatives, or in our friends but it's so difficult to advise them because advice is so often rejected.
Be gentle. Give advice with love. Make sure you're there for them whenever they need you.


OK.
That's the last of the Billionaire pics I have at the moment but never fear, I have other new stuff to use over the next couple of weeks or so, and hopefully by then I'll be able to link in with the completion scenes of Billionaire.
If I'm lucky.

[fish]

Postscript from Billionaire.

Edgar H: "LOOKING at the PACIFIC. after a long journey from VIENNA to the far WEST BERTA has arrived in LA."



If it's any help Tulah, someone made a comment that it looked like it was in Santa Monica.
Edgar hasn't responded, but it was only a few hours ago that he posted the pic.




In the meantime, on the Blanche Neige set......
La B: "Dave? Is that really you?"
Fish: "Yes dear."

[Ian]

You wish!

[Owen]

Ultimately, subtitles will come next week for The Dutch Room, they are done but not completely translated. I have more problems of mishearing in this one, luckily the context is always clear.

...instead of the tragic and perilous tightrope of feelings and power relations that it is...

True, but that wasn't enough to stop me wanting it.
I'm sure NdP was better without a kiss there though as it left such an ache by its absence, and served to heighten the anticipation when it did come.
All on display on Marie's face, thanks to the extraordinary talent of Mlle. Acquart.

I think the point of the short film was to show that distress can be completely unseen and even if the person is acting normally...

Au Septième Jour to me, even without subtitles, seems like an essay on the tragic consequences of the illness of depression.
As in Australia I guess most countries have agencies/organisations to help sufferers of depression but sadly there are many people who's illness goes unrecognised and untreated.
We've all seen signs in ourselves, in our relatives, or in our friends but it's so difficult to advise them because advice is so often rejected.
Be gentle. Give advice with love. Make sure you're there for them whenever they need you.

I think it would be accurate to call NdP a film about frustration. Even when we get the kiss, it is interrupted without the satisfaction for Marie.
If I have the courage and the time, I'll try to gather an interpretation of the movie in its topic.

For A7J, I agree with you, but before advising, we must be sure that the diagnosis is right. Recognising depression, then parting the illness from the passing feelings is very delicate.

[fish]

...we must be sure that the diagnosis is right...

Of course.
I should have been more thorough in my words.

And yes, "a film about frustration" is a very accurate description of NdP.



Remember when I found this pic?



Well, I've come across its companion.

[DMt.]

La Sciamma said NdP was a film about first love and the awakening of desire; but yes, most people's experience of this probably is rather frustrating. Certainly none of the three got what they wanted - well, except maybe Floriane, who is evidently madly in love with herself.

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Nice pic, Fish, Acquart looking rather rock'n'roll there...I wonder if a little juggling with brightness and contrast might fix the flare? I'll have a go.

[Tulah]

Yes Fish, it looks like it could be Santa Monica or Venice. I also saw Ho Leng commented on one of her photos telling someone she will be in LA at the end of January..

Its looking good and I am taking a day off next week and spending the day in LA with some friends. So I will be on the lookout..in a non creepy/stalker way of course...

[DMt.]

Imagine if you were to see KStew and l'Acquart on the LA streets in the same day...

..or even having coffee somewhere!

I think I'd probably faint [or otherwise massively dork out]

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More seriously though, Tulah, take a recorder and camera, just in case you get granted an interview as forum rep...?