French May应景之作：康城60大寿金棕榈大战大盘点（鉴赏版）(1)

《My Blueberry Nights》首映的报道出来了，反应未如预想中热烈，看来我的初步估计太保守和随大流了。

 所以现在恢复到我的影迷身份，一切由电影水准做主。

先来看看几份报章对《My Blueberry Nights》的评价（Courtesy to Erica）:

"My Blueberry Nights" drew mixed reactions Wednesday from the world press corps

"Because I found it predictable, it was not like a typical Wong Kar Wai film,"

London Daily Mail columnist Baz Bamigboye said he liked the film but added that after all his years covering film festivals he could tell that many in the audience did not share his view. "There was a quiet respect for the film, but no love,"

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/16/movies_cannes/main2819669.shtml

In the case of "My Blueberry Nights," the post screening reaction as the credits rolled was warm, although did not seem to equal the warmth shown to the filmmaker when he screened "2046" a day late in Cannes three years ago.

http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2007/05/cannes_07_daily.html

new york times: My initial impression is of a sweet, insubstantial movie that might have been more exciting — more meaningful — to make than it is to see

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/movies/18cann.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

其中，nytimes的A.O. Scott的评价应该较有代表性，毕竟这部电影三分一设定在纽约。王家卫的电影重色彩和画面构成，之前他的大部分作品都是取景自亚洲拥挤的城市里的横街窄巷、或者封闭的酒店房间，这样狭窄的空间有利于营造他作品中需要的紧绷凝重的氛围，从而带出受压制的情欲的神秘侧面。

但这次他选取大部分类似roadshow的设定，用美国壮阔的原野为背景，要取这么广阔的背景王家卫的经验是有限的，较为接近的作品已经是94年的《东邪西毒》了。而王家卫本身都不将这部戏看成一部roadshow，而只是在不同地点取景，体现距离和时间对情欲的作用。不限制自己在某一个格局可以带来突破，但也可能会变得不伦不类，既没了王家卫作品一向的张力，又不能充分利用广阔背景带来的震撼。而美国人直率爽快的风格，也跟亚洲人“尽在不言中”的情感方式差异甚大，王家卫似乎并未能取得很好的平衡。

至于王家卫这次移植亚洲情愫到美国环境的实验是被appreciate还是认为是失败，恐怕要视乎之后出来的众多大师是更上一层楼，还是原地踏步了。现在看来，《My blueberry nights》的夺标前景是有点不乐观。

其实同样是roadshow类型，我觉得两届金棕榈得主，Coen Brothers手法上会比王家卫更纯熟，他们的新作《No Country for Old Man》从Synopsis看也似乎比《My Blueberry Nights》更有深意。不过两届赢家再赢第三届似乎史无前例。

No Country for Old Man

Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Country: USA

Year: 2006

Credits

Joel COEN - Director
Ethan COEN - Director
Joel COEN - Scénario & Dialogues
Ethan COEN - Scénario & Dialogues
Roger DEAKINS - Images
Jess GONCHOR - Décors
Carter BURWELL - Musique
Roderick JAYNES - Montage

 

Actors

Tommy Lee JONES - Sheriff Bell
Javier BARDEM - Anton Chigurh
Josh BROLIN - Llewelyn Moss
Woody HARRELSON - Carson Wells
Kelly MACDONALD - Carla Jean
Garret DILLAHUNT - Deputy Wendell

 

Synopsis

Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law-in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers-in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.

 

 千里追逐的情节让我想起之前看过的Coen Brothers赢奥斯卡的《Fargo》，这部似乎突破一般的罪案片桥断而加入一点宗教和原罪的元素，不知出来的效果会如何。