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Movie review : Lola

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After I found the beautiful movie "the Umbrellas of Cherbourg" by courtesy of @WonSuk, I wanted to watch another Jacques Demy's movies. So I went to watch Lola after a week, with @jAykaZ and @WonSuk again.

I met @jAykaZ on Twitter also, and it was first time we met in person. He was very nice guy and he works for CGV, the movie management company. We both were movie lovers, so we could have fun time talking.

the movie Lola is called "the musical without music". It is a monochrome movie, but I felt it's very vivid and animating. And specially I loved the atmosphere of the theater itself we watched the movie in. Old interior, sound of a cinematograph, scratched flim, it was not just watching a movie. everything I felt in there was a unique and great experience. And I really loved that experience.

Roland Cassard, (he's in Umbrellas of Cherbourg also. the story connects.) the main male character said in the movie that he doesn't know what he's living for. There's no reason to work hard and get by day after day in the place he's living. I think that's the same question we young souls ask to ourselves now in 2009 as well. Even if we are working at a nice company and living a not-bad life, we're all always asking the question to ourselves.

However, Roland found the answer. It was the "love". He found his reason to survive and not to leave the hometown after he met Lola, his old friend, after more than 10 years. He falls in love with her. Eventually the movie ends with not so happy ending, but that's the life, we know that.

Beautiful sound of the French language makes this movie more melodic. If you want to feel the passion and love of young minds, this movie will bring you what you want.

Movie review : The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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Last night (on 14th Aug) I had a precious opportunity to watch the movie "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". I met @WonSuk, a great Korean film maker, on Twitter and he said he'll watch the movie and asked if someone will join him. So, @WonSuk, @RobRho and I went to the Cinematique theater on Nakwon-dong, Seoul.

The movie released on 1964. It is being said one of the "romantic trilogy" of the French director Jacques Demy. It was the first time I watch that movie, and I was moved so much.

I was surprised that the situations in Cherbourg in 1950s is pretty similar to the one in Seoul in 2009. It's true that I sympathized because I'm in love now and thinking about the marriage. And the fact that young man should go to the army for 2 years was incredibly same with the situation in Korea now. The lovers in the movie had been separated because the boy went to the army service. All Korean audiences laughed when the boy said "I've got the draft notice from government" because the line feels very familiar to them. to me as well.

And another great part of the movie was the music. It is a musical movie. Every line in the movie is being sung in melody, I've heard the main theme of this movie before but didn't know where it came from. And I just stunned when I heard the theme in the movie. It was just BEAUTIFUL. Here you feel it yourself.

I give a huge gratitude to @WonSuk for giving me the opportunity to watch this great movie on a big screen.