StephaneD

I went to see this movie thinking that it would be appropriate for adults; I had seen many friends reading the novel, they seemed to enjoy it at any age. I was damn wrong... This is definitely a movie for children. It is pretty nicely filmed, though I think you can reach much higher levels of oniric poetry without so many special effects (like Paul Grimault & Jacques Prévert's "Le roi et l'oiseau"). But it does treat the audience like a bunch of kids no older than 11. Where is all the satiric tone I was told was abundant in the book? Is it really the best way to raise children, keeping them in a naive Disney-like "gnan-gnan" world? The cast is pretty good, I liked the animated portraits on the walls in the background (This is poetry that touches both adults and kids...). But overall it is far below what I was supposed to expect. 5/10.

This movie is definitely worth having a look at, Lynch is definitely the master director this year's Cannes film festival has awarded. The cast and the two heroins of this hollywoodian oniric thriller is fantastic; however I get somewhat a bit used to the classical Lynch's directing tricks, which are sometimes predictable I think... Mulholland has the same weird atomsphere of Lost Highway or Blue Velvet, and the case evolves in the same challenging and irrational way of Twin Peaks. Making it somewhat not that much innovative, right in the continuity of other movies from this great american director. 9/10.

Be prepared for the Trip to Haneke's "La pianiste"...The psychological sickness of the main character, wonderfully played by Huppert, goes beyond any limit you could expect. The most stunning part of it is that you start feeling compassion for the character Erika. Trash-Sexuality (no nudes scenes though), perversion, masochism, incestuous relations...Haneke gives us a crude meal, heavy to digest; sometimes, the only way you can escape the extremism of some scenes is to start laughing at it. The "mise en scène" is maybe not the most appealing part of the movie, it has obvious austro-germanic, sometimes scandinavian notes : static, long scenes, but never boring. The vienna settings, the french language used, make the whole look like a european blend. The permanent germanic music Background (Schubert) is beautifully chosen. Above all, both of the Cannes awards for best actors are well deserved: one of the greatest performance of the year by one of the greatest french actress ever.