A photo, an old photo, when I was young.
Except for the slightly warm ticket and the April date,
what is left.
Memories . Follow me and never stop."
—Que reste-t-il de nos amours (Que reste-t-il de nos amours)
French chanson and opera.
Opera originated and formed in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The operas at that time had clear passages: recitatives, arias, sings, choruses, and in some cases interludes and dances. In the nineteenth century, the German composer Wagner believed that this kind of dull, outdated, dazzling musical passages affected the overall effect of the opera. After "The Wandering Dutchman", Wagner's opera no longer divided into sections, but adopted "infinite melody", that is, the music is inherited from beginning to end to form an emotional continuation, pushing the opera to a new stage. The French composer Debussy admired Wagner's way very much, but the melody of German opera was not suitable for the characteristics of French pronunciation, so Debussy developed an opera more suitable for French, which is more like recitation than the previous Italian operas. And whispered whispers to make French, which has a soft sound quality, more appealing.
When it comes to France, people think of nothing more than the Eiffel Tower with the spotlight, the tree-lined Avenue des Champs-Elysées, the Louvre, where treasures are displayed, and the French Chanon that is tactfully low. These images have made France, the romantic country in the eyes of the world, and Chanson has naturally become an ode to this romantic sentiment. In fact, French chanson is much broader than people think. The original meaning of "Song" in French is "song". This kind of song is mostly composed of narrative music. The theme of narration is not only love, but also various thoughts, mourning, literature, fantasy, politics and so on. Since chanson was first spread from street taverns and coffee shops, there was no grand concert hall-style soundtrack. It was very casual and had no fixed musical instruments. This just gave chanson a natural, simple and lazy characteristic. . In this way, Chanson is a bit like New Orleans jazz. This kind of music was originally a kind of music for the poor to vent their emotions. The emotion of life was incorporated into the music in the accompaniment of the trumpet. Compared with the lingering pain in the bones of jazz, Chanson pays more attention to the artistic conception of the lyrics and the beauty of the tune, which are closely related to the carefree pursuit of a beautiful life attitude of the French.
Qiushui Yiren.
Jean-Jacques Demey's 1964 film "Iren in Autumn" not only made director Cannes Palme d'Or's dream come true overnight, but also let the world experience a perfect performance of French Chanson on the screen in the form of an opera. The film draws on the characteristics of Debussy's opera: there is no pure utterance, every dialogue is a flutter of notes, and this kind of music has the elegance and charm of chanson.
In the story, Catherine Deneuve plays a 17-year-old girl, Genivie, who falls in love with Guy, a gas station boy, regardless of her mother's objections. Everything is just like what is sung in a song. Everyone has beautiful years. At the age of 20, even the color of dreams is love. A kiss makes the lovers on the street hug tightly. People experience the first time in their lives. The feeling of struggling for love. But no matter how beautiful the song is, it will end, just like the abrupt end of love in the vast sea of people.
The war in Algeria sent Guy to the battlefield, far away from his beloved Genivie. They can only look forward to the rising and sunset every day. With the help of the geese, love is slowly fading away in the distant road and time. Separation made people gradually forget each other's faces. In the end, they could only remember each other's appearance by the way they looked in the photo. The face in the dream gradually blurred into a wrinkled and yellow black-and-white photo. If the longing is still a pain that can be tolerated, then the growing life in Genivier's belly is a problem she can't escape. Guy, who has no return date, and the deserted umbrella shop business, made Geneva a little bit lost the courage to face life. She accepted the love of diamond dealer Roland Cassalde, which is also a person who has experienced life and love. The man who is willing to treat her sincerely.
Guy, who returned to his hometown from the battlefield, lost Geneva and lost his job. He could only drag a lame leg. When it rained, that sick leg would faintly aches, as if to commemorate his faraway love.
Many years later, Geneva and Guy met again at the gas station. The two have their own happy family and children. They did not complain to each other, but stared at each other for a long time. The only thing that can still be seen vaguely misses each other that cannot be erased, which proves the love they once existed, is the names of their children, all called François (baby).
Compared with the latter one, there is no return date, and the distance is close to each other.
Although this film won high praise and praise in the past, it was like "a man and a woman". It was criticized many years later, and it was considered that such an award was too much. In terms of feelings, the movie does lack foresight and transition, and it fails to show the pain of Genivier and Guy not being able to love each other in a delicate way, but it hastily made both of them find their homes. The meeting many years later, what a sadness that should have made the soul tremble, but the hero's overly indifferent performance greatly weakened the feeling of sadness, and wasted Catherine Deneuve's intent and heartbroken eyes. Jacques Demie also touched on this kind of emotional injury in the war, and did not touch too many political and family issues. This is one of the reasons why many people think that the film is not deep enough.
The color language of movies.
The director is most attractive and successful, in addition to music, but also his grasp of color language. He used the basic colors of green, blue, yellow, red, and black to create a romance of love and a passion that burns the soul, and each person's personality gradually became vivid in these colors. In the movie, the change in the color of the protagonist’s clothes also hints at the development of the plot, which is very subtle.
Pink, yellow, and black are the colors of Geneva. She has the youth and beauty represented by pink, like a flower in bud, and yellow sets off her splendid appearance and vitality like the sunrise. Whenever black appears in There are ominous things in her body. Once Gay was drafted into the battlefield, and the other time was the death of her mother. On that day, the feelings between Neveye and Guy grew stronger, and her dress changed from the original pink to sky blue. That was the color of Guy. She only had Guy in her whole body, and only her love.
The colors belonging to Guy are blue, green and coffee. Green is the color of freedom. Although Guy is poor but free and unrestrained, this is also one of the reasons that attracts Geneva. Blue is the color of the sky, and that beautiful but unreachable sky seems to be destined from the beginning to be an unattainable relationship.
The clothes of the wealthy businessman Roland Cassard are mostly black suits, and his shirt and tie are progressive blue, indicating that he has also experienced years of being trapped by love: he also loved a woman, but because of her heart Owned, Roland had to escape to the end of the world just to forget her. This experience gave him deep feelings, and it also allowed Genivier to find a home in him.
When Genivier's feelings gradually tilted to Cassard's body, bright flowers bloomed on her plain blue dress. When she finally walked into the auditorium, she wore a snow-white wedding dress, which was a complete farewell to her previous love. The change in Guy’s mood is also reflected in the color of his clothes. After he came back from the battlefield, a large piece of coffee covered the original blue. When he learned that Genivier was married as another woman, he completely changed the blue from Remove from the body. This heralded that he got rid of those unrealistic and sentimental ages and began to plan for his future life. In the last encounter, the clothes of the two men are thick black, which is a kind of lingering sadness and condolences.
The dying happiness, the April date, the kiss that was stolen, the hidden landscape of the past, all this echoes in the depths of memories. It's an endless French chant, it's an ember of love under an umbrella.
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