Trailer: Face (Visage)
Ok this is the last trailer I post for a while…well until something else interesting crops up. Can I help it if the Internet has been flooded by interesting trailers lately?
I’m deeply jazzed about this one. Tsai Ming-Liang directed one of the best movies I saw in 2007 called I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone. That’s the sum total of my knowledge of the guy, but ike his countrymen Edward Yang (Yi Yi) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Three Times, Flight of the Red Balloon), he’s a big favorite on the arthouse circuit.
Caution, the trailer may contain an errant NSFW boob or two.
The film starring Laetitia Casta, Lee Kang-Sheng, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Fanny Ardant, Jeanne Moreau and Matheiu Amalric is playing in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival now underway.
Here’s the official blurb from the Cannes website:
A Taiwanese filmmaker makes a film based on the myth of Salomé at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of King Herod to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. To give the film a chance at the box-office, the production company gives the role of Salomé to a world famous model. But problems arise as soon as filming begins…
Amidst all this confusion, the director suddenly learns of his mother’s death. The producer flies to Taipei, to attend the funeral. The director falls into a deep sleep where his mother’s spirit does not seem to want to leave her old apartment. The producer has no choice but to wait, alone and lost in a strange city.
As after a very long voyage, filming will resume with all who were lost in the underground of the Louvre.
via: CHUD
Filed under: Trailers
Tags: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jeanne Moreau, Laetitia Casta, Lee Kang-Sheng, Mathieu Amalric, Tsai Ming-Liang
I don’t know his films but this trailer is quite something. It leaves me open to the possibility of the film being wonderful, dreadful, or some combination of the two.
I have a sense even if you find it dreadful, you might have to admire the attempt. Or maybe you don’t operate that way, I don’t know. Me? I like seeing a guy go for it, even if he doesn’t make it all the way there.
I went into I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone without knowing a thing and it knocked me out.
OK, so is the Cannes blurb about making the movie or the premise of the movie. I’m confused, but I’d agree with sartre on the trailer itself. I admit to being curious, for sure.
It’s the actual premise.
Does anybody what song is being sung? (And is Laetitia singing it?)
The song is called “Ya No Estas A Mi Lado” but I don’t know if Laetitia is singing it.
Yes, it the Laetitia’s voice when she sings
“Historia de un Amor” in Spanish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_un_Amor
There is a new trailer of the movie Face
in French with Chinese subtitle
and also the official site of the film in Chinese.
http://ondine.wsr3.net/index.php/movie/23-face.html