Pick up those daisies!

Sometimes things can be so funny, I mean really funny like Daisies, the movie I watched at (again almost empty) Attikon. I know I was bit moody yesterday, but I am really glad to have seen this one, a true gem. In this 1966 Checkslovak New-Wave art nouveau movie, two bohemian sisters live their funny little life through a series of social experiments, teasing boys into falling in love with them and writing their telephone numbers in their walls, pondering abut the great meanings of life, getting hilariously drunk in restaurants, convincing middle aged men to pay for their lunches, dressing up, destroying a banquet and generally just doing whatever they want and having fun. The movie is hilarious, anti-conformist and even anarchist at times, visually beautiful with the alternating photography, offering not only a magnificent impromptu funky comedy but also an admiration for everything peculiar and unstrained in life. If Charlie Chaplin and Pier Paolo Pasolini were alive, they would be really proud for this one.

You see, one o fthe reasons that I really liked in the movie, is because it seriously attempts to bring new elements into cinematography not compromising to any typical forms or procedures, but rather relying heavily on impressionist and expressionist elemts, that eventually create a fantastic and harmonious collage of stills, colour, dialogues, and interaction, proving the amazing space there is out there to explore while making a movie.

By the way, recap notes are yet to be made, so it will take plenty of time to make a relevant post, not to mention Film are palying at An Club on Thursday.

Other exciting things are police officers using iron fists in demonstrations. Public order never seizes to amaze me. Other not so exciting news is my Depeche Mode Live in Athens double CD that finally arrived (and paid a hefty 30 euros for it); the live was great, these old geasers being strong and professional as ever, but the live CD 's are just ludicrous. I have heard plenty of bootlegs that are much better in terms of sound quality. Still, that does not mean I am not listening to it...