This Fashion Film could only have been made by/for Prada. Always the intellectual brand! I mean, is it not luxury to have a video screenplayed by Roman Polanski? Is it not amazing that Helena Bonham Carter is acting in it? (ANYTHING with Helena Bonham Carter is amazing!) Isn't the violet-red combination quite fantastic? Isn't Ben Kingsley pretty funny?
So, my favorite director will always be Stanley Kubrick. My favorite movie, Barry Lyndon. It's just... art! My favorite scene, this one, when Barry and Lady Lyndon kiss for the first time. The pace of it, combined with Schubert's Trio, is pure magic. Such elegance. Then again, it's Kubrick! Check it out:
The Kiss
And... I'm bringing all this up because I was watching The Hunger (1983)for the first time tonight, and oh surprise, Trio in E-Flat makes an appearance in this film as well. Catherine Deneuve + David Bowie + Schubert [+ Bauhaus + Susan Sarandon + amazing early 80's styling]... can this movie get any better?!!
Now that was a excerpt from Venus, a cosmetics manufacturer, and one of the 7 most powerful individuals in the world introduced in Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult psychedelic filmThe Holy Mountain (1973). If you haven't watch it, you must! This films is filled with symbolism, so I wont attempt a ridiculous simple description of it here. But I'll give you this: The introduction of Mars, the weapons manufacturer. It is equally brilliant in it's use of satire! And it's amongst my favorite scenes of the movie as well.
"...we have psychedelic shotguns, grenade necklaces...."
Peripatetic...? It's a bit funny by now!
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