HAIKU: Once upon a time / In France, girls wore donkey skins / To not marry dad
FOUR PLUSES & A NEGATIVE: 1) French fairy-tale by Charles Perrault, the 17th-century author of "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty." 2) Musical with easy-on-the-ears songs and melodies. 3) By the same French director who brought to screen "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)" and "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort)" among other classics of French cinema. 4) Catherine Deneuve at her most radiant! 5) Themes involving scatology, incest, and bestiality.
RANDOM THOUGHTS: I saw this film in my sixth grade French class. We went to see it at the Film Form (I think it was there, at least maybe it was at the Alliance Française) and then we went to a French restaurant where my arch enemy at that time, Richard Salz, had an embarrassing moment with his French Onion Soup. Being the poor Black kid at a rich White private school, I didn't have money for an appetizer, so I watched while everyone else ate their soup or snails. Still, I remember having felt transported to another place and time, a feeling that would be recreated later in life by drugs and alcohol.
I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys French cinema or to brave families who like fairy tale films. Despite the "strange" themes, it is told responsibly, almost as if it where a life lesson that everyone had to learn at some point in their lives, like all dads want to marry their daughters and daughters would oblige were it not for this film
If you'd like to read more of my haiku, please visit my blog at: richardwallenhaiku.blogspot.com
FOUR PLUSES & A NEGATIVE: 1) French fairy-tale by Charles Perrault, the 17th-century author of "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty." 2) Musical with easy-on-the-ears songs and melodies. 3) By the same French director who brought to screen "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)" and "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort)" among other classics of French cinema. 4) Catherine Deneuve at her most radiant! 5) Themes involving scatology, incest, and bestiality.
RANDOM THOUGHTS: I saw this film in my sixth grade French class. We went to see it at the Film Form (I think it was there, at least maybe it was at the Alliance Française) and then we went to a French restaurant where my arch enemy at that time, Richard Salz, had an embarrassing moment with his French Onion Soup. Being the poor Black kid at a rich White private school, I didn't have money for an appetizer, so I watched while everyone else ate their soup or snails. Still, I remember having felt transported to another place and time, a feeling that would be recreated later in life by drugs and alcohol.
I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys French cinema or to brave families who like fairy tale films. Despite the "strange" themes, it is told responsibly, almost as if it where a life lesson that everyone had to learn at some point in their lives, like all dads want to marry their daughters and daughters would oblige were it not for this film
If you'd like to read more of my haiku, please visit my blog at: richardwallenhaiku.blogspot.com