Une Robe D'éte

Une robe d'ete is a french short film, the title in english translates as A Summer Dress. The film works in a peculiar artistic tone, with some nudity and sex scenes. The basic plotline is a young male, on holiday with a friend, he ventures out to a beach alone, where he encounters a female and has sex. In this time his clothes are stolen so she lends him her dress to which he returns home in to then have sex with his male friend. I am not sure what the entire plotline is trying to convey. The brief nudity and causuality of sex, would suggest a comming of age story, the exploration of sexuality. The film is fairly short and direct and although not explicit is filmed cleverly enough to show almost softcore porn element.

Meshes of the afternoon

This film is incredibly spooky, which indicates great imagination from the creators and people involved in making this short movie. The entire piece works as a dream sequence with great work camera work used to portray this. The repetition used really catches the mindset and inconsistency of a dream. There is some excellent camera work to indicate struggles for example the women attempting to get up the stairs but wind or some unseen force is stopping her. Another good example is her walking across many different setting i.e. the sand, pavements etc.  So much artistic vision is used in this film that makes the audience uneasy of what exactly is happening.  The whole thing is full of ambiguity and I feel leaves the audience open to their own interpetations. Others who have viewed this film via Youtube have agreed with my statements and claim that some cinema is simply an art form left open for interoperation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S03Aw5HULU

Lunch Date

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuTZigxUY8

The lunch date is a highly amusing film with made in in 1989. The film is beautifully shot in black and white which really gives the movie an atmospheric feel.  I believe that the choice of soundtrack and the black and white is a clever move as it gives the audience a false sense of film noir which reflects our judgements of the story. The setting of a train station also is a nice cinematic choice with the audience relating to the stress and joys of them. The overall storyline moves quickly with humour and drama included. The main character has a very specific characterisations laid out from the beginning of the movie, indicating she is somewhat racist and in general a snob. Small details down to her wiping the table and forgetting her please and thank you conveys this. I also like the director choice to allow her to walk past a begging black man after her experaince which you believe may have changed her.  The humour that one could mistake a person for stealing there food is a nice twist and funny to boot, yet adds some more character as the man and her almost bond over a cup of tea.