2018 ‘Plaire, aimer et courir vite’ Directed by Christophe Honoré
Jacques is a writer living in Paris. He hasn't turned 40 but already mistrusts that the best in life is yet to come. Arthur is a student living in Brittany. He reads and smiles a lot and refuses to think that everything in life might not be possible. Jacques and Arthur will like each other. Just like in a lovely dream. Just like in a sad story.
쏘리 엔젤, Elsk, nyt – og løp for livet
if there was a counterpart to BPM — a visceral drama about taking action in the height of the AIDS crisis — may just be SORRY ANGEL, a lovingly intimate romance about people who are woefully ignorant to the threat of AIDS until it’s too late.
what i loved about SORRY ANGEL is how much it values relationships — from epic loves to lifelong friends to a father and his son.
blue eyes, blue cars, blue kids, blue music, blue sea, comforting blue, angry blue, romantic blue, sad blue, that one pink rose, blue skies, blue memories, blue nights, blue everything until that last blue neon light in an empty elevator and then blue one last time
Amongst the bustling streets of bourgeois Paris and the windswept coastlines of Rennes, the year 1993 is filtered through a broad spectrum of blue, as the bittersweet romance develops between two men at significantly different stages in their lives; Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), a Parisian novelist battling the unpredictable timeframe of an AIDS diagnosis, and Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), a sexually ambiguous college student who is just beginning to explore his attraction to men.
Scenes are scattered with telephones, movie posters and fashion from the era, evoking a rich sense of time and place, and director Christopher Honoré highlights a specific time in history when the AIDS epidemic was beginning its decline, and there was a divide between those already affected by…
[distorted] thank you gays
probably the frenchiest french film that has ever frenched ft. lots of frenching.
but in all seriousness Sorry Angel is a real gem, with its brutally honest and unafraid screenplay boosted by a great cast giving their all in every single gorgeous frame it’s truly a film that shouldn’t be ignored
"I've met a Parisian I'm in love with. He doesn't care about me, but I'll change his mind."
Few films that I've seen this year are as quietly devastating as Sorry Angel. It's a confidently mature feature that refuses to hold our hands through the complex emotions governing the lives of its well-drawn characters.
This also is well-acted and beautifully filmed (I saw this days ago and I could still pick out some shots that I'd love to put up on my walls right now). Christophe Honoré's direction and stylistic 90's period choices complement these factors effortlessly. All of this to say that, on a technical level, Sorry Angel is terrific.
As a narrative, this is ironically hindered by its…
Arthur is a handsome, idealistic and romantic young man who lives in Rennes and aspires to become a filmmaker; his free and restless spirit drives him to discover the world, to surrender to love and passion, and to pursue his dreams. Jacques is a parisian writer in his late thirties condemned to see his life slowly extinguished by AIDS; he is a man in decadence, practical and distant but at the same time fragile, who accepts with resignation his inevitable destiny. Arthur and Jacques meet by accident, they exchange glances and smiles in a cinema where The Piano is projected; something within both claims them, their bodies are desired, their souls are longed for and thus a brief love affair…
Did you like CMBYN, but thought it wasn’t gay, caucasian, or depressing enough? I would suggest this film!
Em “Conquistar, Amar e Viver Intensamente”, Christophe Honoré faz uma escolha bastante ousada. Ao retratar os anos iniciais da epidemia do HIV, escolhe as pessoas e não a doença. O filme não tem a preocupação de ser um registro histórico, nem um manual de comportamento sexual. Para o francês, o interessante não é mostrar personagens derrotados pela AIDS, punidos pelo pecado do amor proibido. A morte é o destino final, mas o foco é a sobrevivência. É como o protagonista elege a vida. Sem drama, sem culpa, sem a necessidade de expiação. Sob as leituras punitivas e de segregação espalhadas como metástases mundo afora nos dias de hoje, poderia ser facilmente interpretado como um filme irresponsável, que desperdiça ou sumariamente…
Terrific. To like, to love, and to run fast. Felt a modern jolt to what Honoré tried to communicate and tried to assemble here. What if Éric Rohmer made a film about two lovers Before Sunrise-style, but in 90s ACT UP Paris gay scene, talking about literature and art. Cocteau Twins' “I Wear Your Ring”. Meet-cute during Campion’s The Piano. Francois Truffaut. A
Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite is a tale of dreaming and the incapability of doing so. It’s an ode to literature and film told in blue while leaving a trail of book and movie references. Main characters are Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), the young student with great ambitions and Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), the writer who is ‘too old to die young’ as one character states when they talk about their inevitable deaths because of AIDS.
There’s also Mathieu (Denis Podalydès), Jacques’ neighbour and good friend. He’s quite a bit older than Jacques and with the choice of those three generations Honoré sketches the different ways in how they deal with sexuality. Mathieu pays for sex and seems to stay completely indoors,…
Sorry Angel isn't as galvanic as Robin Campillo's BPM, but then galvanism isn't Christophe Honoré's end game here, at least not in the conventional sense of the term. I can count at least four quietly disarming moments off the top of my head—from the bathroom scene between Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps) and Marco (Thomas Gonzalez) in which the latter so casually cracks wise about how AIDS has weakened his body, to the three main characters in the film lying together in bed in quasi-sexual communion—that propel Sorry Angel into the canon of great AIDS-related films, for showing us how a group of men at the height of the AIDS crisis so quietly struggled to preserve a tenuous air of normalcy.
