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Zero De Conduite
Aug. 14th, 2024 02:01 pmWoke up this morning...
And it's always something sorrowful that comes next because it's the blues, innit.
In my case it was a simple case of feeling a bit ropey so I'm taking it easy today (yesterday we were out to lunch and I ate mac and cheese and that could have had something to do with it because I'm lactose intolerant ) and went back to bed for an hour and then watched a movie.
The movie was Zero de Conduite- the made-on-a-shoestring very early talkie that proves you don't have to have the resources that David Lean had to make a deathless classic. It's almost plotless, it throws a handful of gravel at the proprieties (just about all of them) and it annoyed the French authorities enough for them to ban it for twelve years. It has been inspiring other film makers ever since. It is irreverent, anarchistic and fundamentally good-natured. I didn't get it when I saw it in my early twenties but I'm so very much younger now.....
And it's always something sorrowful that comes next because it's the blues, innit.
In my case it was a simple case of feeling a bit ropey so I'm taking it easy today (yesterday we were out to lunch and I ate mac and cheese and that could have had something to do with it because I'm lactose intolerant ) and went back to bed for an hour and then watched a movie.
The movie was Zero de Conduite- the made-on-a-shoestring very early talkie that proves you don't have to have the resources that David Lean had to make a deathless classic. It's almost plotless, it throws a handful of gravel at the proprieties (just about all of them) and it annoyed the French authorities enough for them to ban it for twelve years. It has been inspiring other film makers ever since. It is irreverent, anarchistic and fundamentally good-natured. I didn't get it when I saw it in my early twenties but I'm so very much younger now.....
