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Cuba Feliz, Karim IRAD (2000)

Halfway between "Buena Vista Social Club" and a film by Tony Gatlif, "Cuba Feliz" follows the lives of Gallo, a street singer, wandering melancholy musical Messiah leads us to the informal meeting of musicians from Cuba, most touching and talented one than others.

A hat, a guitar case and a cigar are the only attributes that frail little creature carries with him. The rest is called the experience, exchange and sharing. We then discover the true face of this small piece of land known as Cuba, a tiny island with a turbulent history, inhabited by a population brewed possible. Through Music, the official religion, one can only fall in love with these people who seem to have chosen what is better. Only Mexican music, which seems rather bland and redundant at times, the "Cuban style" includes all musical genres, opening even on a kind of rap tribal organized form of battle. Old and young people confront and come in only by osmosis through music. Even if you do not understand English, just to observe the expressions of the singers and musicians to identify words.

More than just a documentary, "Cuba Feliz" is a lesson in the world. Due to the modesty of its inhabitants, who are content with nothing to live and seem more than happy. Due to the tolerance that prevails when the age difference, gender and skin color are just better in multiples to give birth to a substrate of the most exquisite. Finally, apart from paying tribute to the music by giving voice (sung) with real musicians with a heavy heart.

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The immoral, Andre Gide (1902)

Through this short novel with a surprising depth, Gide lays the foundation his vision of Superman by Nietzsche already developed a few years earlier.

Michel was born in the books, feeds and fresh water culture. Educated by his father, he embarks on a very sophisticated analysis such as "the influence of Gothic Art on the deformation of the Latin language." But the disease (tuberculosis) and then marriage with Marcellina will turn gradually.

The disease makes him realize the value of a life but also its fragile side. This instilled in him a sensitivity, a search of the true self. Similarly Marcelline triggers in him the birth of its "physical life". The enjoyment is no longer in the books and abstract aspect of the past but rather in the present and the senses.

It therefore rejects any form of abstract art and research in it the greatness of his hero, one who can always live in us. Fear of death has caused the disease to create a trauma history. The latter is the lucid narrative of human mortality, a series of epics, ruins the present. We must therefore draw on the past which is land in humans, which can be used in the present. Culture as a simple coating his being must be denied, just like any form of morality. We must come together, crowd. As stated Menalcas, meets colorful when you invent one is always alone, forget the past "be like the bird that flies away and forgets his own shadow."

Michel becomes an immoral. His illness was a kind of expiation of his being rational from the outside, a metamorphosis, a rebirth. Up to conquer the core of his being. We notice when he shows a genuine interest in child beings and nature still true, especially in the Moktir person who steals a knife on the sly. The landscape takes on a different value in his eyes. He is passionate about the desert country where all human hope and career fails. Arab culture seems wonderful as it is lived and not learned. His love with Marcelline becoming more intense, despite the disease's growing it.

working actively in the first instance, be immoral begins to take root in Michel. Honesty discourage him as it is false and footprint of all the virtues inherent in non-human. In sum more than being sought is the metamorphosis that seems be most beneficial to morale. Enjoy a situation when we know that what is rejected is less attractive and enjoyment, can only enhance his own pleasure.

Finally, the "immoral" is a kind of fact sheet on finding the core of being. Cultivate a difference, acquire existential freedom, not dip into the culture that greatness of soul, as many messages Gide's book with a shamelessness far from being accepted. We seldom realize that this book almost 110 years and still shocked as to what libertarians and devoid of all morality in particular on issues such as pedophilia or homosexuality. Subjects still taboo today but for lascivious described by Gide.

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The Two Standards, Rebatet Lucien (1951)

The Two Standards ", a term that would be found on the side of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, these are two schools of" thought "that oppose Regis and Michel, longtime friends.

Regis has faith, a chemical that we inherit from their parents or that is acquired by a concession to the afterlife. "Simply accept to believe to believe "says Regis wishing devoted his life to the priesthood. The indulgence toward unfounded opens the door to religion that invades our being in all that man has brewed since ancient times ...

Michel is an artist, he believes only what he owns and observes. He is pragmatic and alongside the abstract for his art, he created. His discussions with Regis go very far, it seems sometimes touch the bottom of the metaphysical problem that resides within us, to fall off again in contradiction and nonsense as silly.

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But Anne-Marie, devoted herself as a religious career. She is beautiful, awakens the debauchery and fornication sentimental Michel, worship God in holy trinity Régis.Cette will merge to better highlight their differences. Michael is secretly in love first, leaving their romance two platonic lovers.

But Anne-Marie, the two are complementary, she feels the need to share moments with both. Michel eventually take action and wanton Anne-Marie, who will end up losing because of nostalgia for a lost faith and regrettée.Entre two considerations about the music, the great and beautiful (according to the author), we witnessing profound debates theological and ultimately life, for faith influences the character and actions of each.

Employing a style remarkable Rebatet bored sometimes as he digs his thinking and spread over too many pages. But when it comes to new rhythmic passage, the author knows how to catch and watch corrosive. We marvel when a comparison between Lyon (he hates) and Paris (which he admires), place names to the arrangements of the city and the people who populate it, Lyon is undermined and seems humiliated behind words too strong. Similarly, the passage where Michael follows a girl in the street and falls into a sordid place where he is beaten. Rebatet knows how raw and out of its classic style and Grand.

Despite its length (over 1000 pages) and his languid, "The Two Standards" is unique, that of reconciling a classic look with a language crûmment popular, that of describing situations between two bestial thoughts theological and philosophical, that of not only deal with the inner feelings of the characters without last for the frivolities of appearance. Finally the book highlights the part of the human land that seems irreversible, according Rebatet this true faith, although that seems immutable remission ever in question ...

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Ulysses' Gaze, Angelopoulos (1995) and dependencies

long odyssey through the war-torn Balkans, a succession of shots showing a cruel sublime nostalgia for a time that is longer than the spectrum itself, reflection on nature of cinema and its preservation in time of war, "Ulysses' Gaze" moves, and is deceptively disturbing dream the viewer.

From the first images, Angelopoulos films the sea, a vast expanse of water that even the old-fashioned boats seem to escape. Then you turn your back to it to contemplating this land, the cradle of civilization, the realm of philosophy and freedom, ancient seat of the Art in its most lush. But we see only the fog, the time seems stopped or ended. This land is no longer used now that floor to humans in disorientation, pale and wandering, observing their civilization official melting. The statue of Lenin, boneless and elongated face to the sky, drifting on a misty river under the gaze curiously naive uneducated people (considering the scene as an event), blinded face a rapid decline and sustained, is the most touching example of the film.

"Greece is a dead country" to hear the taxi driver who takes our director, main character in this film, towards the border with Albania. The only fraternity and magnitude that there is now among these people is the friendliness, "the division of alcohol and listening to the same songs." Perhaps these values will enable humanity to die in peace, dignity and greatness since have evaporated.

From this pessimistic, Angelopoulos will make it a fertile ground by conducting a reflection on the place film, nature and survival. The film is eternal (death of cameraman in the first sequence of the film highlights), immortalized but it also maintains an expertise, a custom or personalities. But it can also become a weapon in times of war, a disturbing testimony as necessarily subjective. Universality means that the film is a tender unattainable goal, a frustration that pushes art to grow, creating a branch to a range that grows over the generations. The universality of this data is infinite can not be palpable by piece, a multitude of looks somehow.

omniscient gaze of Angelopoulos offers the filmmaker's trip a multitude of metaphysical sense than the others: time travel, exploring the infinite development of cinema as art, which passes under our eyes, by constructing At the same time the film; testimony on the war through the encounter characters who live to the rhythm of machine guns (the scene of the New Year where we come to arrest dissidents remain in worship dance), a personal journey of a filmmaker through research that a coil is seeking his true personality squandered through his films, a bit like a clown who is retiring and who is overseas in itself.

"Ulysses' Gaze" is ultimately the film's most rhythmic of Angelopoulos, it reflects a certain angst and transmits an image specific to the chaotic war. The vacuum inside a filmmaker anxious and lost harmony with the external chaos of a hectic period for finally ending the hopes of starting over again.