After Amélie...

Music: “Hejira” by Joni Mitchell (Thanks, Paul!)
Mood: “…talk to me, talk to me…” (a phrase from a song of J. Mitchell – I don’t remember the title… Don’t know which album, either).

Saw "Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles" tonight. OK, after Amélie, it would be a very, very big challenge for Tatou to play any other personages. But we also expect (and WANT to see) some Amélie-elements, don't we? Well, I think she did her best to be Mathilde here, and I - as an Amélie fan - am satisfied with the atmosphere of Amélie. The movie has a lot of blood and horrible scenes (Renske had to close her eyes very often, she says) because of the time in which the story goes… during WO I. I wonder how it is in the book which this film is based on. I understand that in the book there’s much more blood (yeck!) = cruelty of war. In the film it is still expressed in Jeunet’s way, very dry and – eh – “huh?” and “ah!”way. To understand and discover more of the details, I will have to go to see it once (or more) again.
Is Jeunet going to make the next Harry Potter film? I read in the paper that he had said NO, but today I heard he was going to do it. Well, I'm very curious.

I came home around 1 o’clock. It’s freezing tonight. At the very moment when I got home – I was just off of my bike – it started to snow. Brrrr. A big mug of hot chocolate was the first thing I had in my mind.

Covered with icy snow in 2 minutes...