MorkTheFiddle wrote:Only a handful of these have come my way. IMDB describes
La pianiste this way: "A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher." "Masochistic" may be an understatement!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1The
Crime and Punishment connection in
Pickpocket went over my head.
Les enfants du paradis didn't click for me until near the end. I look forward to seeing the remainder when and if possible. Thanks.
La pianiste is brutal and sad, and it's nothing alluring about its masochism. I believe exploitation aficionados will be disappointed.
I didn't pick up the Crime and Punishment allusions in Pickpocket the first time I saw it either, but the second time (when I knew they would be there) it was quite obvious. Sure, the crime is different, but the paranoia is the same, and the characters match those of the novel. Raskolnikov's friend, the police officer, the girl. I actually re-watched it only a couple of days ago at the local cinema. Bresson is such a grand master of refined visual elegance and compressed between the lines style of storytelling.
For you German folks, here are ten great contemporary films from the Berliner Schule:
Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade - 2016
Der schöne Tag - Thomas Arslan - 2001
Montag kommen die Fenster - Ulrich Köhler - 2006
Gespenster - Christian Petzold - 2005
Alle Anderen - Maren Ade - 2009
Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen - Maren Ade - 2003
Ferien - Thomas Arslan - 2007
Im Schatten - Thomas Arslan - 2010
Bungalow - Ulrich Köhler - 2002
Dreileben - Petzold/Hochhäusler/Graf - 2011
Not everything that says Berliner Schule is good, but chances are it is. (Now I should point out that this label is largely created by the critics, and some of the movement's practitioners would readily deny that they belong to any such movement or school.) I've yet to see some of the more recent movies from the last couple of years.