Seen: Versailles

I saw this yesterday, was awesome.
The rhythm of the movie may seem slow (but now, I'm used to slow films, because of Korean movies ^^) but it serves the generous and committed film maker's glance at poverty.
Guillaume Depardieu and the kid play so well. Feline moves and looks. When the discovery of the "fatherly instinct" saves a man from the streets/woods.

Seen: Change with Kimura Takura and Abe Hiroshi

Well, I spent two nights with Kimura and Abe... through the drama Change.
OK... So, once and again, the drama is good (because I did watch the 10 episodes, not just out of a professional/researcher goodwill)
a) the two main male actors, Kimura and Abe, are of course... of interest.
b) the arcanes of power and the Prime Minister. Japanese dramas are sometimes quite good at these kinds of dramas. I'm thinking of Shiroi Kyotou before that, about the arcanes of power in a hospital.
Well, the drama was a good way to revise the Japanese constitutional law. Apart from that, too simplistic about politics in general, far too idealistic. (that's the bad tongue from the old days in Sciences Po talking...)
Cute characters in general. Very high audience in Japan (what is the driver: Kimura? the ending song by Madonna? Btw, should be the first time a Japanese drama ends with an American pop song, no?)

Seen recently: Osen

Mmm, mouse back on the research track, watching dramas... So, I discovered this Japanese drama through the song Odore. Don't ask why hehe...
Not bad. Actually quite good.
Two or three remarks...
1. I guess the theme of the drama -traditional food and a restaurant- is quiye related to the success of the Korean drama DaeJangGeum.
2. The come back of traditions. That has something to do with the concept of "scent" Iwabuchi often uses. Means probably that the persistent smell of Japanese food in the drama is an indicator of Japanese confidence about its media products on the Asian markets...
3. Sounds that other Asian people also enjoy the drama. Can be seen on Pandora TV or mysoju, so...

Seen recently....

Sex and the city (at last!) and Bons baisers de Bruges (a good remembrance of the past trip with the orchestra...

Ambleteuse and its fireworks

les pingouins n'ont jamais froid, Kourkov

P 60: "Dans deux petites heures, on saura ce qu’il est devenu, ton Micha. En attendanr, tu n’as qu’à retourner dormir. Les gens intelligents ont besoin de plus de sommeil que les autres ! On dit que ça leur rallonge la vie."


P 231: "Tout ce à quoi aspirait Sieva se résumait à un mot bref et riche de sens : la vie. D’ailleurs, tous les mots essentiels ne comptent qu’une syllabe : vie, eau, pain. Ensuite viennent les choses moins cruciales, à deux syllabes : amour, chaleur, argent, bonheur. Plus on va vers le futile, plus les mots s’allongent. Victor eut un sourire goguenard à l’intention des termes compliqués qui lui traversaient l’esprit dans le désordre : humanisme, démocratie, constitutionnalité… »

i m doing fine in Jamaica...
well due to troubles in internet connections u ll get news and photos from Jamaica only when i come back from Kingston...