G-L

I saw "Rosetta" several weeks ago - and I still fail to recall any movie which could convey such an immediate sense of being pysically there, all the time along Rosetta's everydays' "war". We are bombarded and flooded with images 16hours per day, it takes great stregth of vision, of images, atmosphere and characters to grab at you this effectively in year 2000! Rosetta struck my as a very real encounter, with all the nonsense and ups / down of real events and life... It made me feel more of life, made me think of it more often and more intensely, it made me look into more eyes than I did before... Thank you, Luc and Jean-Pierre! and thank you, Emilie and all!

I was immediately cought by this movie's imagery. Whitaker's part-drooping left eyelid (in the first part of the movie), his neutral, attentive, alert, non-aggressive face was masterly and crucial to catching and keeping my attention - together with the great choice of music, and the elusive, slow pace of the overall action. An elusive pace which sets you going along with it, and takes you where (J.J.) wants you - out and away from the usual "speed-speed-speed" atmosphere. As in other masterful movies, you are brought to let yourself be involved and absorb a deeper, less conscious communication than the immediate meaning of an image or a fact. Should such meditative, pregnant atmopshere be all, I would be very grateful to J.J. already... Not all, though - however unlikely / unrealistic, I loved the encounters with the Haitian, French-only speaking best friend (so aloof their are apparently, they get no verbal communication working - still they convey the sense of an almost desperately close link to each other), and with the bright, attentive girl... I cannot put it in words what these personages, encounters & atmosphere evoke in me - still they are in my memory to stay.

Only shame the movie was dubbed, some of the voices did sound so inappropriate! Why is it that we cannot escape dubbing, in Italy?