We left Merida for a output option but absolutely do: output to Celestun! Initially, as an aperitif, we stop a few times and in Uman, the time to survey the local market, colorful. Part in the open air (including fish ...), a party in a covered stop this market, nestled in a small town is very typical of this province. This is real life people. Tourists or not, anyway, they will continue their day. It wanders almost anonymous ... it's very nice!
After another bus ride, we therefore arrive at Celestun, home to a very large reserve of birds of all kinds and especially flamingos! We arrive near the beach, where we eat elsewhere after the boat ride. Our boats are small, fast. At a rate of eight per boat, we enjoy the ride of several hours under a blazing sun, but the sea air and speed make the difference. Several stops and starts with a bang, and then finally come the famous flamingos!
course, we did not take boats to go try to pet them. It stays inside quietly and we quickdraw cameras. In any case it's a beautiful moment, when the engines shut down. Only us and them. Then on the way home, you might see (stealth) a big alligator and we will make a breakthrough in the mangrove trees and the atmosphere so unique. Like all good things come to an end, we must return ... well, not quite as the south (well to 14h as always) we eat on the beach back to our starting point ... (Seen in the background on the second photo).
After this meal composed entirely of fish and other marine species (and white wine ... Mexican) we take our trusty bus, driven by our loyal Santiago for our last night in Merida, which will again be placed under the sign of Exit night and happy hour or a cocktail bought one free! In short, a wonderful new day at the pace a bit calmer than the previous ones, which is not so bad, especially since the first part of the stay will soon be coming to an end tomorrow it's Chichen Itza which is program!
They say that in France people do not read, and yet we have now are the best writers! And of all genres, from romance (Stone & Charden ... who himself has confessed that he had nothing in writing Ruquier ...) of the novel River to pull your tears (Nicoletta, Herve Vilard, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Linda De Suza unhappy childhoods) philosophical thoughts (Mireille Mathieu) Some stand out: Rika Zarai that she is in her 6th or 7th book, after a Natural Medicine (behind second sale the Bible in 1986!) that everyone has caught the bulk (bath seat) Rika finally reveals his memoirs shortly before his stroke, phew! Amanda Lear who has managed the feat twice out of the same book with different titles (The lover Dali / Dali The Amanda ) and last year "I'm not what you think "we say, well there it is, it takes! No way ... It plunges therefore mythomania and lies ... Another well-known mythology, our Morizet Cheryl Karen Isabelle, who she did not write his memoirs, (you'd expect, because we are eager to know all the details of her night of love with James Dean, yeah it is more near to it) but advice Beauty with her hilarious personal physician certificate attesting under oath that Ms. Morizet suffered no lift ... Here we touch the abyss ... Her Sister Sheila finally revealed the truth, yes it was indeed a man! But it was a scoop in a previous life, a Tibetan monk and of course not one of the Magi, the scam would have been too obvious! Sheila then caft throughout the show biz by using nicknames to avoid trial, and delivers a first novel it is suspected that one of his Black Devotion was behind! Obviously for this kind of books, you need a hook for either seller, so says Patrick Juvet His great love was Jean-Michel Jarre, Nana Mouskouri his father was a bat, Françoise Hardy was the despair of his monkeys ... Regine talks about his son and the bad mother she was, after (as reported on my Big Nurse) Oute have all of show biz who have slept with (mostly in his dreams) and recounted his childhood, his life , and confirmed its boxes so that it is not Leonardo Da Vinci who invented everything but the Queen of the Night! The Pietre Julie tells us about his problems of double cropping, Sardou his marital problems, two women and two children at the same time, what health ... The mother Renaud Loulou's emerging in the clouds, it is still well off and what we are fed up, I am informed that a new masterpiece just fallen Catherine Lara, oh yes we thought about it more, she says its exclusive relationship with his violin ... You'll notice that it would have been quicker to list those who have not yet had the impudence to sell, Mylène, Vanessa, France Gall ... But the most cynical back in Orlando that does has not hesitated to write the memoirs of his sister with highlight on the red headband "My brother you will write my memoirs" Yeah ... regarding disks, I did not see "My brother thou me remix" Sometimes the Fric is not chic ...
Doctor's order's Obviously some celebrities can legitimately claim to write their memories, those who have lived 50 years on stage as Aznavour, Annie Cordy, Marcel Amont.La most other obviously have not written a line, leave only these types of products because they do not know what else to do so or because they were on the rise temporarily and must enjoy it ... (Jordy!) But ; if one is willing to be lenient with them, read a childhood Vartan or Hardy is far from being unpleasant, it is also a population of people who have committed M. .. who have not only cut down trees and polluting the libraries, those of the Reality TV ...Loanna / Miette...Leslie ( My father killed my mother! !) Emma Daumas, or even the odious Raphaelle Ricchi, Dona Alice's daughter, who was not misunderstood the evil that Tf1 showed on ... And so many others, fortunately most forgotten ... Ah Les Miserables!
This fourth day will be permanently placed under the sign of the agave, the cactus famous is the indispensable ingredient of Tequila and Mezcal also (the two main local spirits) but allows for the sisal. Leaving Merida we move towards a real hacienda (abandoned in the '60s and taken over by a German in the 80s) which is located about an hour's drive.
The place is beautifully restored and maintained and the place is full of discoveries! Visit the large property, plant manufacturing sisal, full monitoring of the production chain and its many machines of a bygone age ... Once we embark on two species of rail carts drawn by donkeys. We discover the rest of the property and acres of agave (there are 300 hectares).
halfway to our goal, we make a stop in front of a traditional Mayan cabin (there are still many villages in the countryside). A mini-papi welcomes us to the most friendly of ways. It begins by explaining that he worked in the hacienda in his younger days and he had returned to its reopening in the 80s. Very talkative, he explains the refinements of the hammock (made in sisal) and a bunch of Mayan customs. Moreover, he expressed himself in a Melag of Mayan and English, not always easy to understand, even for our guide who has lived 10 years in Mexico!
After this stop pleasing, we left through fields of agave for the last stop of the morning : The cenote. To make fast, the cenote is an underground area (or sometimes air) which means a rising water table. The cenote located on the lands of the hacienda was about ten meters below ground and did not exceed 5-7 meters deep. The water is of clarity and softness. (Alexandra took the photo above, but do not worry, she then joined me!)
After all these emotions back to the entrance of the hacienda and especially the restaurant area where we will served a meal of high caliber. Everyone has the impression that the more the stay advance over the level of benefits increases!
On the way back we stopped in a small village, walk a little back up in a small house (brick that one ...) with, inside, a pell Post-mell Justin Bieber, wrestlers, religious images, the Jonas Brothers ... Outside, the whole family is at work and weaves hammocks, sombreros, panama ... Obviously, it's time to checkout! Bonus: a presentation of a book adapting the positions of the ancient Kama Sutra sauce hammock!
Back in Merida, direction downtown for a fast discovery (and finding a distributor for tickets!) And a little shopping. Back to the hotel for dinner very rich and very lively: supergroup + + long tables traditional dances! Time management and digested downtown again, and night! Many streets are now reserved for pedestrians, especially since it's the party tonight, a concert (a little bof but there was the atmosphere) attracts a lot of people outside.
The night is sweet, too sweet: it must to drink! We follow the advice of the guide and we stop at the terrace of a bar ... We order cocktails and hop EPs, the party is immediately more crazy! At the beginning we are 6, we draw other members of our group and, hence, others are Mexican garnish terrace empty when we arrived! We delirium well with the server and the kind of singer who "animates" the terrace being forced to sing us a bit of cucarcacha! Nice server brings a dozen sombreros to take pictures! Another great night that ends late in the sweetness of Merida!
The morning is a slight regret that we leave our beautiful hotel at Uxmal. After closing our bags and eaten breakfast XXL (we're getting used to it), we headed back on foot to the site of Uxmal we had already discovered in "sound and light."
site, we visit again under a blue sky full, magifique is its size, its conservation, wealth ... Our pale faces are still under strain, like the thighs and legs of certain (e) s: different places are indeed at different step-downs. We climb the stairs, we descended, we attack a pyramid and then another ... A visit even more exciting as shown in our guide are still relevant and that we again visited the whole site in a relative calm since most groups come to 11h/12h.
The first big surprise this week is our lunch (actually 14h) in a cantina in Merida! What atmosphere! The concept is simple: large tables and a cocktail / drinks. It places an order and servers bring a lot of little things to eat and quite spicy so that we can control other drinks ... while the music with two bands that play live and alternate every hour. We even had the right to a superset of the "loca" by Shakira and a bizarre version of a song Florent Pagny ... In any event a unique and very warm ... A concept to resume here!
So we must say here that, contrary to our previous destinations, Merida, it is not at all the country! In fact, it is a city of 1.5 million inhabitants! From the cantina to the hotel Located in downtown, we had to take over a half hour trip, especially since traffic is very dense ... and the roads are not so large as that! In addition, the hotel has a style quite international, the antithesis of the other two. However this style also has its charm: Our room has two TVs, a lounge, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom of course! Downstairs, the dining room offers a huge dinner ...
Miss Wars raged since the election of Miss France last December. In the song, it has long opposed that was knowingly or for commercial purposes singers that walk ... My folders do not go back until Piaf but it's a safe bet that he has put into the legs of kids cheap, when in fact that it disappears, we will search for him heiress who does will never, despite their efforts to live up (physically Mireille Mathieu approaching!) The first rival who is remembered and whose struggle was fierce were probably Gloria Lasso and Lasso Dalida dice 1956 ... is the number one with her cooing foreign Paradise, but when Dali arrives, far more incendiary, Gloria resist somehow and went into exile in Mexico ... Hence it will come back only after 25 years at the Pascal Sevran initiative, the "reconciliation" will only television Dalida handily won the match, even if it is the first to disappear and that Lasso was too old to take an irreplaceable ... The 60 opposed Sylvie Vartan and Sheila, then the match is more difficult, none has managed to gun down the other, 50 years later, and the other one still occur on stage, no matter the conditions, one has infinitely more resources than the other, always new album coming out, but ultimately, the public puts them in one basket, advantage may be further Sylvie the opportunity to surround yourself and to produce, but the two remain tied in the collective memory. 1965, Game of chance between two sub-Piaf, Mireille Mathieu et Georgette Lemaire who are competing every Sunday, the victory will be for the Demoiselle d'Avignon, which found a Johnny Stark, who will not hesitate to scuttle the poor Georgette which, nevertheless managed to not be forgotten ... Ten years Later, Sheila is a mother, her producer is launching two "clones" Carina Cheryl and Julie Bataille, the first is the undisputed winner, ten years of successful career before doing anything and everything. The second converts in imitation and radio. For small end 70, Chantal Goya and Dorothy Gueguere wage a not so innocent, one has to lawyers Babar and snipe, the other Smurfs and a computer, 30 years later, they are pretty near to same point, after crossing empty and big scenes ... The 80 see happen at the same time Joan Mas and Mylène Farmer, if the first has a leading edge and masterly, the second advantage of the pregnancy of her rival to hatch and become the biggest female star who innovates with his hits and videos, when Joan returns it is too late, Queen Mylène has conquered everything, however, to recognize Ms. Mas an unusual stubbornness that makes him out regularly albums that do not sell but have the merit to exist. Two years later, two little girls first Elsa and Vanessa Paradis then to stare into the Top 50, the first of the family audience for it, the second was immediately booed by everyone in the end, c 'Vanessa is becoming a mega star Elsa leaving thousands of light years although always present but incommensurate with Mrs. Depp ... In 1998, LAAM and Larusso fight, one resumed Michel Berger and the other claims we forget it ... It's almost done, the advantage remains for Laam who has worked without to collect as many triumphs, the second tries to keep his head above water but will struggle to rebound ... Alizée little protegee of Queen Mylène defies Lorie, friend of girls sports and healthy while Lolita played on a sexy and provocative, diffcult to tell who won, dice Alizée Farmer leaves it no longer works and Lorie is reveals more actress (Tf1 A) return to the song seems unlikely, then again, difficult to decide. For reality TV, the first two winners of the Star ac are regularly opposed, Jenifer Leroy Nolween and, if the first has long maintained the advantage, since his last album with the Breton Nolween needed his last album, but for the moment hard to tell who will win over time, Jenifer currently being undermined by its poor sales, the NRJ Awards faked his trial ...
's Doctor's order: expected result, there are now so many new singers who come and go as fast as they appeared there will certainly be of great rivalries in the past, perhaps have Rene Taupe with Crazy Frog? Who will eat the other?
Day 2 - Jean-Paul 2, cemetery, chicken and mariachis
On the second day of sightseeing, we did a (short) rest on "old stones" to visit a beautiful city English colonial style (of course): Izamal. To do this we leave for a few days Valladolid. Programme:
- discovery of a church / monastery which houses a statue of John Paul 2, since the latter are given a mass during his pontificate.
- free time in the city center, the covered market, the public square, very typical of the Hispanic influence and purchasing a fruit juice orange / carrot made live before our eyes. To hell with the restrictions and our fragile stomachs of tourists! (In fact it went well thereafter, no adverse effects, if that can reassure you).
After leaving this beautiful stage and before stopping at a restaurant specifically to eat chicken in the traditional way ("chicken pibil" specialty local warranty), we made a stop in a colorful cemetery. This case was very instructive on the funeral rites which exist in this part of Mexico. In general, Mexicans do not have a very different relationship with death than we do.
For example, their Day of the Dead is a celebration of the dead! We dance, we sing, they celebrate Life and death among the tombs! As against this stop half an hour under a burning sun in the middle of the day has left traces on the faces and shoulders number of us (is not that Ms. Chevalier?).
At the end of the day and very rich in cultural teachings about the life of the inhabitants of this province, we arrived at Uxmal in a hotel in beautiful surroundings. After the welcome reception, we enjoyed the pool at dusk. Well, firstly, we especially enjoyed the quality of the plumbing of the hotel because of the toilet room were clogged!
cons After this time, towards the archaeological site of Uxmal for a first discovery of places before visiting the next day. For a little over an hour so we attended a sound and light bringing the various buildings of the site value ... just as the myths, history and customs of the Maya. Then back on foot to the hotel (located approximately one km from the site) for a well deserved meal! This time it was really the big game: we eat outside and three guitarists came complete Table idyllic that evening. Evening all the more successful that the group knows each other well and now that the affinities were created. For example, our "group in the group" had already met that night as shown in photo above.
To top it all, the hotel, no doubt sensing a good business sparked an offer "for a cocktail bought" in the evening after dinner. Needless to say, so we stayed long enough to talk and enjoy a cocktail at the pool ...
West, the real. For their first western, the Coen brothers adapt the novel by Charles Portis already filmed by Henry Hathaway in 1969 hundred dollars for a sheriff . Although the brothers have vowed not to have made a remake but a new implementation of the book, it was an opportunity to disrupt the codes of the original film, very dated, and thus impose their claws. But the ways of the Far West appear to be on tracks too narrow for the unbridled imagination of Coen.
the death of his father, Mattie Ross (the promising Hailee Steinfeld), fourteen years, wants to avenge the death of his father shot in cold blood by Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin, sacrificed). It entrusts the mission to stop the dangerous bandit in Cogburn marshall (Jeff Bridges), an alcoholic sheriff with a very personal conception of the law. Seconded by Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Matt Damon), also in search of Chaney, a ride that is committed in broad daylight illuminates the motivations of the three characters ...
The Coens have made false westerns that told the story of America and its foundations. No Country for Old me n one of their masterpieces, resumed a basic premise, a fugitive pursued by a killer himself chased by a sheriff but revolutionized the bottom. The most chilling terror skirted the most absurd black and ended on a shocking note meditative. With True Grit , the Coens seem to land in marked and we recognize their unique visual sense from the first scene: the voice of the girl, a plan emerges gradually revealing the house of the murdered father. The camera moves slowly over her body before drawing up a sublime fade with the arrival of the girl in the city. Subsequently, jokes, shows the persistence Mattie stop fighting over the passivity of the authorities. In a sequence of ping pong verbal sharp, the girl does not let anything in front of the notary of the city to get what he deserves. Replicas fuse, percussion, and the show seems so assured.
Hailee Steinfeld and Matt Damon
He continues to look better with the appearance of thunderous Jeff Bridges, airs brilliantly in his dirty old clothes sheriff outlaw. The fights between him and Mattie are jubilant and the arrival of Matt Damon, a Texas Ranger and very secure him a bit ridiculous junk in his vanity, adds to the fun of the trio.
But the narrative flow more and more the staging of the Coen becomes functional, mechanical. Certainly, the incidents are linked together with ease and talent as a storyteller is in no way challenged. But the filmmakers had known up to now take ownership of a kind they resumed their account by upsetting its codes. Here, the codes are learned so applied without the madness and the incongruity of the brothers reflected. A man comes out of nowhere dressed in a bearskin, that's probably the only image really unexpected True Grit . And when the film looks like a fairy tale, the Coens, lazy, do not develop their characters more rooted in their archetypes. At one point, however, the sudden loss of innocence of the girl pops up in a beautiful nighttime sequence on a rooftop, where Cogburn says his exploits of yesteryear. Mattie's face, beautifully lighted by Roger Deakins lights suddenly stripped of its trappings of teen volunteer.
A pleasant diversion, funny (truculent sequence flinguage blind!), The fifteenth Coen brothers' film has everything a good western that will certainly please their allergic cinema. But turned away their fans come out frustrated and disappointed not to have been more surprised and shocked they would have liked. A not so fantastic ride in which the Coens seem to have poured into the mold cleanliness of the academy. To listen to mainstream music with their loyal and talented composer Carter Burwell, the myth of the West apparently did not need a replay.
the occasion of the Alfred Hitchcock retrospective at the French Cinematheque, My Cinematograph ABC has made a hitchockien.
A pparition
From The Lodger in 1927, Alfred Hitchcock appears in each of his films. The British filmmaker was amused by her brief cameo that sometimes able to detect with a discerning eye. Most surprising is undoubtedly one of Lifeboat where we see a picture of Hitchcock in the page of a newspaper read by one of the castaways. His appearances were often held in the first third of the film because the director thought they would have distracted the public if it had occurred later in history. Find on this link a summary of all representations.
B Ad Guy
More successful is the villain, will be the most successful film . This credo hitchcokien proved correct in many films from the master. Even in its most extreme cruelty, the evil is always to be elegant and refined, Joseph Cotten in the Shadow of a Doubt to James Mason in North by Northwest through Claude Rains in Notorious . In the last part of his work, the wicked will have profiles of true psychopaths, clinical cases dealt with Hitchcock's usual irony.
Joseph Cotten in The doubt.
C ulpabilité
The transfer of guilt is one of the most recurring themes of Hitchcock's work. Although they are not free of defects, how many "heroes" have had the time of a movie, prove their innocence when they were accused of a crime they did not commit. Kaplan took the ghostly, the character of Cary Grant, a flighty and superficial advertising, is chased by mysterious spy in North by Northwest including The 39 Steps was the tape test. in Stage Fright, Marlene Dietrich kills her husband and her lover did acknowledge that not only reveal the innocent as we thought. The priest The Law of Silence, held by the seal of confession, can not identify the real killer and seems to do anything to jeopardize it. The habitual criminal Frenzy of is accused of sex crimes perpetrated by his best friend not to mention Henry Fonda is the aptly named Wrong Man.
Montgomery Clift took doubts in the law of silence.
D etail
We recognize the great filmmakers in their obsession to detail. In Hitchcock, she is omnipresent. In great manipulator, he knew perfectly integrate individual elements to bounce action and make a situation more ambiguous. He called it "fill the tapestry" . In The Law of Silence where Montgomery Clift left the courtroom, you see, in the middle of the crowd, a pretty disgusting fat woman eating an apple with a malevolent gaze expresses the curiosity of the public. In Vertigo (Vertigo) , the medallion on the neck of Madeleine, Judy made it clear to James Stewart, Madeleine and Judy are the same person. In the Shadow of a Doubt , black smoke coming out of the chimney locomotive on arrival of Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) announces the arrival of a malevolent character. And the amount of detail can tell a character: at the beginning of Rear Window, the camera glides over the face of James Stewart in sweat, then on a table which shows the broken camera on a stack of magazines and on the wall, pictures of cars that turn. In one plane, we learn that the character is, what is his business and what happened to him.
E eroticism
Hitchcock's films contain a great deal of eroticism more or less visible. In Notorious , filmmaker, cleverly evading the censorship, is the last kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman for long minutes while in motion. Films are movies, some pictures will become purely sexual: the last shot of North by Northwest where the train goes through the tunnel insinuates sexual act of two lovers. But the most shocking erotic dimension is undoubtedly in Vertigo. Hitchcock summed up beautifully: "All efforts of James Stewart to recreate the woman, cinematically, are shown as if trying to undress her instead of clothing. "
Subsequently, sexuality, less suggested, burst into Psycho, Marnie No and Frenzy where she takes a turn for deviant and pathological. Sex and death are inextricably intertwined as the formula subtly Truffaut "All the love scenes are filmed like murder scenes and all scenes are filmed like murder scenes of love.."
The endless kiss Notorious
James Stewart Kim Novak in discovering Vertigo
F omen
Many biographers have glossed over the prétentue sexual frustration of Hitchcock and his report very ambiguous with actresses. Married to Alma Reville, who was his most formidable critic and that she had a great influence, Hitchcock filmed different types of women: the young ladies who will discover the loss of innocence (Teresa Wright in Shadow of doubt), the leaders said in temperament (Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat ) Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly, the two images of women Hitchcock sometimes seductive, sometimes fragile and female subject (Tippie Hendren in The Birds and No Spring for Marnie ). For anedocte, Hitchcock had thought Grace Kelly Vertigo. print since her marriage to Prince Rainier, the actress had to decline. Hitchcock chooses to heart cons Kim Novak. The film's story and turning merge then strangely requires a director to replace an actress to imitate the actress initially chosen.
The appearance of threatening Grace Kelly in Rear Window
G loire
Its success will culminate in 1954 with the failure of No Marnie ten years later. The filmmaker will struggle thereafter to renew itself, seemingly overcome by the new public expectations that moving away before the new generations rediscover and make it a triumph that is not ready to fade.
H Umour
"Does this not be fun to have him assassinated in this way?" . This will master demonstrates the constant humor that runs through his fifty-three feature films. He himself said that the content of his films was serious but the look was humorous. This transforms some humor comedy spy intrigues in which North by Northwest is the summit of its kind. It defuses the tragic situations in many of his English period films: Sabotage, a woman disappears, the 39 steps ... The humor is really gruesome in Who killed Harry? and Frenzy assasssin where the poor must find the body of his victim in a truck full of potatoes! Behind the humor lurks Hitchcock was particularly fond of irony. In the early birds , Tippie Hendren buys a nice pair of canaries, named the "inseparable". She does not know yet that she will soon be confronted with a volatile any other species!
The sequence of the auction in North by Northwest
I ntrigue
Hitchcock achieved a majority of adaptations: Daphne du Maurier, Boileau-Narcejac, Patricia Highsmith are among the authors who have seen their works become pictures thanks to the talent of the master. Stories where the plot is essential Hitchcock manhandling at will with almost disconcerting ease. If it is not always vraissemblable, the plot is constantly credible because the filmmaker some thoroughly interested motivations of his characters. The rebondissemnents are legion and the McGuffin (the goal) is essential because it justifies the vicissitudes of the Hitchcock film well considered unimportant. Seeing evolution film going against the grain of the plot, he told Truffaut that he would build in the future more likely a film about a situation than a story. He also declared about Psychosis: "In psychosis, the subject matter to me, the characters I care little, what matters to me is that the assembly of pieces of film , photography, soundtrack, and all that is purely technical could make the audience scream. This is not an interpretation that has shocked the public. It was not a popular novel that has captivated the public. What has shocked the public, was the pure film. "
J eSuite
Catholic, Hitchcock made his classes at the Jesuit St Ignatius College in London. The filmmaker said later that it was during his stint with the Jesuits that fear has become stronger in him. Rather average student, he had an engineering school before working as a draftsman in the advertising department of the Henley Telegraph company. He then joined the U.S. company Famous Players-Lasky, where he was responsible for drawing the intertitles for silent films. Then he became an assistant director before starting his filmmaking career.
K ilo
Hitchcock has long suffered from its embompoint that teenage put him away. He would laugh when run an ad for a slimming cure. Later, he even return to his advantage by drawing its silhouette will become a label.
L ondon
Born in London in 1899, Hitchcock turned to England twenty to three feature films before his departure for Hollywood in 1939. But the director has always retained a loyalty to his hometown. He returned during the second world war where he made two short propaganda films ( Bon Voyage and A venture Madagascar). Hitchcock wrote the two scenarios at the Claridge Hotel which has recently inspired the documentary Belgian Johann Grimonprez (see critical Double Take). He came back to the British capital filming Under Capricorn in 1949, Le Grand Alibi year Next The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956 and Frenzy in 1972 where the entire action takes place in London. Honored for his entire career, Hitchcock knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978.
M ise directed
When evoked Psycho, Hitchcock spoke of "spectator direction." What other filmmaker has managed to manipulate this world through his camera work alone. In the sequence The most intense Sabotage , he films Sylvia Sidney, who has just lost his brother because of the criminal activity of her husband. She dines in front of him, but serves a plate looks more and more insistently the knife beside her. The husband does not notice the attitude of his wife until he understands that she wants to kill him. Thus, the use of the camera and editing create suspense. The characters in Hitchcock, are themselves a director. James Stewart in Rear Window , keep people in their outcome. The story is told through his eyes, the voyeur and replaces the filmmaker. The same James Stewart, in Vertigo , recreated a missing person and believing in the resurrection.
Killing Sabotage (in Russian!)
The elegance and virtuosity of staging dazzle in the prologue of 'Strangers on a Train : tracking shots on the feet in one direction and then in the other plans on track to meet and diverge. The visual ideas that mark all his films still fascinate: the long tracking shot of Notorious brings us to the coveted key to the murder, which is reflected in the glass eye of the victim in Strangers on a Train , disturbing the glass of milk Suspicion a spotlight on the hidden Inside, the first appearance "threatening" Grace Kelly in Rear Window and the murder of the girl in Frenzy filmed off the field while only a few meters on the street is full of people ignoring the horror that is being played. Hitchcock synthesizes its own perversity of the director fully and explicitly the effect "Kuleshov" "We take a close up of James Stewart. He looks out the window and he sees such a small dog in a basket, we go back to Stewart, he smiled. Now, instead of the little dog that goes in the basket, it shows a naked girl who squirms at his open window. It places the same close-up of James Stewart and smiling, Maitenes, it's an old bastard! "
Kuleshov Effect of Rear Window
murder outside the scope of Frenzy
N ew wave
In the early 50s that the young Turks of Cahiers du Cinema keenly interested in Hitchcock. Film by film, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, who are not yet the filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague, dissect film Hitchcock in the first serious work dedicated to the master, released in 1957. Because at that time, Hitchcock is first seen as a entertainer with his tips but not the huge filmmaker he is today. According to Rohmer and Chabrol, " it is important to consider the work of Hitchcock exactly the same way as a painter or a poet esoteric. If the key to the system is not always on the door if the doors themselves are cleverly disguised, that is not reason enough to shout that there is nothing inside. " Subsequently, François Truffaut, in his famous book of interviews *, give the floor to the filmmaker who will discuss with unusual outspokenness its successes and its failures, its relationship to cinema, his work with actors ... A document of inestimable value.
O 'Selznick
In 1939, the powerful producer David O'Selznick, just basking in the triumph of Gone with the Wind , moved to Hitchcock to make a film about the Titanic. Arriving in Hollywood, Hitchcock is given finally adapting the novel by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca . The film marks the beginning of his American career ending at the death of the filmmaker in 1980. Entrena adversarial relationships with the tyrannical producer, Hitchcock still run two more films with him, The house of Dr. Edwards and The Paradine Case. After these two minor films, he will fly out on his own by becoming his own producer.
Revealing Rebecca
P ublic
Hitchcock turned his films to the public, he knew perfectly anticipate his reactions and play with his fears. About the death scene of Arbogast in Psycho , Hitchcock, sick the day of filming, had entrusted the filming of the stairs rise of Saul Bass, designer of famous Hollywood. When he saw the footage, the filmmaker was not satisfied because the cutting of the rise of the stairs, a map of the detective's hand sliding down the ramp and traveling through the bars of the stairs showing feet Arbogast aside, gave the viewer a feeling of guilt that was not the purpose of this scene. Hitchcock returned to the way that we can see in the excerpt below.
The man was one of very few filmmakers have become known to the general public not only through his films but also through its advertising image. In 1954, he launched the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents e where his silhouette appears on the start of each broadcast in which he tells the story of the episode to come into being Directed farfetched. Hitchcock is probably the only filmmaker of the twentieth century star. His reputation and his power was such that it could require the viewer to arrive on time for the projection of Psycho under penalty of being denied access to the room.
trailer Psycho by Hitchcock
Q uerelle
composer Bernard Herrmann was the most famous films of Alfred Hitchcock. Their collaboration began in 1955 on the set of The Man Who Knew Too in which we see as conductor Herrmann. Their artistic alliance will be broken during post-production Torn Curtain in 1966. Hitchcock, dissatisfied da partition proposed by Herrmann, break sharply with its composer. An attitude to say the least rider who did not do justice to the talent of Herrmann, who had managed to find a unique musical language of images giving the filmmaker a dimension both romesque, scary and tragic.
Concert The Man Who Knew Too
R emak
How many filmmakers have claimed Hitchcock? It is undoubtedly the one that most consciememnt or unconsciously influenced the filmmakers ( see the interview with Jean-François Rauger ). Some, particularly those from the New Wave tried to copy the master including his most faithful disciple, François Truffaut. But The Bride Wore Black comparison is difficult as controlling Hitchcock is sorely lacking. Chabrol, in turn, was inspired more indirectly with some notable successes ( The Butcher, the beast dies ). Italian filmmakers 60-70 years have taken some codes Hitchcock including Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Brian De Palma is undoubtedly the one who went furthest in the replay, resuming his own the same subjects (Vertigo becomes Obsession / Psycho becomes Instincts ). His staging, more mannered, and give intriguing objects jubilant less than a degree of fascination with Hitchcock's films. Finally, some dare even shot by shot remake. Evoking Psycho , fans of Gus Van Sant speak of a conceptual object that calls the Hitchcock movie in perspective. It can reasonably be seen as a useless attempt to modernize business while this mediocre remake seems ultimately much more dated than his illustrious model.
Trailer of Obsession of Brian De Palma
S USPENSION
Hitchcock theorized on difference between surprise and suspense. It appeared two situations: in the first two people have a casual conversation, a bomb under the table but the public does not know. Suddenly, the bomb explodes, people are surprised. The same situation but the public knows there is a bomb and it will explode. The casual conversation suddenly becomes interesting because it participates in the scene. Will they escape the explosion?
The nickname "master of suspense" returned in the current language. An appellation for reducing the work hitchockienne in its thematics, goes far beyond mere thriller but she is just so much suspense in Hitchcock is one of the engines of creation. Counting the scenes of suspense in his films would lead to dissect each sequence of his films, we will retain only the most memorable. In The Birds , Tippie Hendren sits in the courtyard of the village school where you can hear the children sing. The camera stays on her for a while then she looks around and sees a raven, she continues to smoke and when she looked again, she sees all crows assembled. The famous scene from North by Northwest where the plane chased Cary Grant in a cornfield is the choice of decor and cutting-cons the ultimate example of the classic scene suspense. In The Unsuspected , Hitchcock filmed simultaneously call from the husband to his wife and the attempted murder of the latter and the effect of suspense and double the husband Will he pull it off where his wife will she survive? As for Psycho is the movie full of suspense.
The sequence of the school in Birds
T echnical
Throughout his career, Hitchcock was innovative not only in its staging but also in the use of tools film. For Rope , he decided to shoot the film in sequence shot ten minutes each (the length of a coil of 300 m) using connections invisible to hide the cuts (a character who passes the lens) . Together they represent a long shot to 1:45! Popular in the early 50s, he uses the terrain in anagliphe Murder was almost perfect. To visually express the giddiness of James Stewart in Vertigo , he invented a system called the "transtrav" which is to operate simultaneously, zoom in and dolly back. A process which will be taken up later by Spielberg in The Jaws and many other films. Psychosis is a total technical experimentation, Hitchcock turning a feature film with his TV crew filming the famous shower scene with seventy camera positions for forty five seconds of images. As for the Birds , The special effects were revolutionary at the time, especially the noise level for the noises of birds ELECTRONICS amplified the fantastic dimension of the film.
effect "transtrav" from Vertigo
U niversal
is from birds in 1962, Hitchcock sign all his films from Universal, where he owned a cottage for many years. The prestigious studio had been used repeatedly decor for his films and the terrifying home of Norman Bates in Psycho be visited today. After Hitchcock gave Universal the ownership of some two hundred hours of programming thriller he produced and supervised the studio will buy the rights to much of his filmography that we can now enjoy thanks to lavish DVD sets.
V iseur
Hitchcock was characteristic of never looking into the eyepiece of the camera. Incongruous when we know the visual sense man's innate.
W agon
The train is a recurring scene of Hitchcock's films. A place where situations of suspense abound. Wanted by the police, Cary Grant took refuge in the wagon Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest . Both characters Strangers on a Train conceals their diabolical pact on the train of the same name. While he tries to kill his niece, Uncle Charlie L Shadow of a Doubt tomb of train and struck another arriving at full speed. The process becomes even the scene of all the action of Lady Vanishes.
trailer for The Lady Vanishes
* All statements are taken from Hitchcock Hitchcock-Truffaut book - Gallimard.
Filmography
The Pleasure Garden (1926) The Lodger - The Golden Hair (1927) Downhill (1927) Mask Leather (1927) Easy Virtue (1928) Which of the three (1928) Champagne (1928) The Manxman (1929) Blackmail (1929) Elstree Calling (1930) Juno and the Peacock (1930) Murder (1930) The Skin Game (1931) East of Shanghai (1932) Number 17 (1932) Singing Danube (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The Thirty-nine Steps (1935) Four espionage (1936) Secret Agent - Sabotage (1936) Young and Innocent (1937) Lady Vanishes (1938) Jamaica's Tavern (1939) Rebecca (1940) Correspondent 17 (1940) Marital happiness (1941) Suspicion (1941) Saboteur - Saboteur (1942) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Lifeboat (1944) The Spellbound (1945) Notorious (1946) The Paradine Case (1947) Rope (1948) lovers of Capricorn (1949) Stage Fright (1950) Strangers on a Train (1951) The law of silence (1953) Murder (1954) Rear Window (1954) To Catch a Thief (1955) Who killed Harry? (1955) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Wrong Man (1957) Vertigo - Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959) Psycho (1960) Birds (1963) No Marnie (1964) Torn Curtain (1966) Vise (1969) Frenzy ( 1972) Family Plot (1976)
Alfred Hitchcock retrospective at the French Cinematheque until 28 February. Cycle "After Hitchcock" of March 2 to 14.
Who is the father of all these potential Polna? At the sight of Michael belly, no doubt, it's him dad ...
But what happens at our old glories? They ridiculed to the utmost, even those that are absolutely not expecting this record ... That Martha Mercadier and humiliated its 82 years Saturday night bonus on TF1 is not worse than that Regine was for the natural, charming, likeable, benevolent in "The Farm" and height of indecency would have us believe, five years after she has done for his son so he can be proud of her and see her every day before it disappears cancer victim ... He has not disappointed to be the son ... We suspected that the shrew was tamed but not but this is the last straw for her who invented and discos and vulgarity, is writing a book for his son and to the promotion, justifying have committed in that crummy reality TV for him ... And both for its association, let him do this, it has long championed against drugs, but most has-never-been involved in such filth got nothing to f. .. of people! But today, my stethoscope me falls, Polnareff, yes the living legend, myth Popol who disappeared, reappeared as a nasty farm (yet!) In male confides on his Facebook page Twitter etc ... that his son is not his and that his Danyellah was barred after 10 years of love ... Love me please love me! Even if the Polnareff come to this, it's serious, mind you with Meru, another dinosaur era yéyé, we are already well established but still, Polnareff who plays the Caribou Dion, c is true that the antenna Europe 1, he recounted some details of the birth, he had himself cut the cord ... But what astonishes most is that tomorrow Gala offers him a platform, the day after the announcement, thence to suppose that the ancient Popol needs a shot com as shabby as this one to the buzz as they say to sell his album waited for 22 years ... In 2007 he answered an invitation from Sarkozy to give his show to Paris on July 14, he was in the midst triumphal tour, a return that was expected to stage height is true except for some fans as bald Obispo who learned to his cost that does not copy with impunity ... As Master cons, we expected that Michael is now offering new songs worthy of the greatest hits of the past but it seems that the source was dried up, the last two singles out respectively in 1999 "I dream of a world" (not so bad but no success, ten years after Goodbye Marylou ...) and 2006 "Hospital Beds" (a total flop). ..
Doctor's order's : She wants this bad story to "john " gives him the inspiration and above that is a false advertisement, is often criticized for "star" not to be close to their audience but that's the level of the mother Lio selling photos of her confinement to Match! Polna, reentered you, it can not happen! Not Polnareff one ....
For friends, relatives, family members and colleagues,
I have long wondered if I would talk about it or not, but time passes and the questions will be increasingly Many ...
A picture worth a thousand words, so you will understand what is going on.
Why talk? Just to avoid hearing the "Well?? For when?" or "When do you put into it?"
etc. In short, I'm 27 and probably never will no mom "organic". Not very glamorous but say it like this at least is clear.
All that to say that Manuel and me, we'll shoot next year to the adoption, not by default anyway, since it was part of our projects.
Voila.
Some were already in the secret, some not. Feel free to spread the message to those ho we know because it's not something I want to speak frankly. In fact, after reading this short essay, I do not intend to discuss with you except, at most, by written message :-)
Despite the doubts of the last evening , we are standing at 7am, and even before, since we are still between two time zones. FYI, at 7am where we were, it was 14h in France ...
After a great breakfast in the U.S. (but mostly a lot of salty pancakes, good jam, etc, etc ...) we started thinking clearly (more or less ) and a full stomach to Coba, our first visit. What a great discovery: a site nestled in the forest, several interesting buildings, our first encounters with iguanas (discussed later) and several hundred meters way to achieve the highest pyramid of Yucatan: 140m. The rise (and especially the descent) will cost a calf to many of us but it was worth it!
After this wonderful visit when we were at the beginning, the only group on the site, we headed in a canteen-style colonial located one kilometer from the site. Starter, main course and dessert: ingredients are known (chicken, vegetables ...) but the preparations are different, quite surprising and sometimes found! No doubt, we are no longer in France.
time to discover the joys of meditation in Mexico (the siesta, in fact, greatly facilitated by a long drive in a straight line bus and a very rich meal), we arrive at Tulum, which was in fact the port city's famous Chichen Itza . A provision in the open, without much difference in level, a beautifully updated site and close to a blue sea make this new stop a great success.
After the visit, after the break above photo, remove clothes and jumps into it water (in swimming, do not get excited!) for a swim, less than a day after our arrival! Yahooooooooooo! Viva Mexico!
After another bus ride back to our first base, Valladolid for a first descent in a typical Mexican shop (hmm): the exchange shop! And yes, as many participants stay, we came with a $ when it is the Mexican peso, which is especially wanted by the Mexican traders in these remote provinces a few highways to tourists!
That case ended, back to the hotel room for a welcome hot shower and a shared first cocktail around the pool with a few couples in our group that definitely looks very nice!
A good meal washed down with Corona (local beer) and hop in bed rest after the day brisk. We'll have to get used to tomorrow, the alarm will sound at 6:45!
So sure, the beginning of such a journey is never what is more fun!
Broadly, this gives:
- leaving home around 8am, direction Roissy-Charles de Gaulle ... my father is driving! - arrival at the airport around 10:30 am (FYI, it was minus 4 ° that day ...). Then? Big mess, the French organization, we stuffed two or three times the terminal, the queues are poorly organized ... And then when we come to security, it is even worse, limit one passes in my underwear now. Anyway, Alexandra ring gantry, as usual, I go without a hitch and five minutes later, there is at last! - the flight is scheduled at 12:35 but we have finally 30 min delay - then, hell: more than 11 hours of flight: a first for us both! Moreover, it was also the first time we went 15 days on vacation both! Otherwise, obviously, we're not next to each other: an aisle and a seat on this flight will part ... - by chaining a few meals without any flavor except that of disgust, two cool movies (Me, Despicable, Robin Hood), the last show of Gad Elmaleh, episodes of The Simpsons, regular visits to the toilet (just to stretch) and micro-naps, we finally get over Cancun! The end of Calvary! - one goes down, it is I do not know what time but all is well: after two meters in the tunnel that connects us to the terminal we are greeted by a giant ad for Coca-Cola! - like zombies, we wander into the terminal to where we can get the baggage ... In passing we cross those preparing to leave, all the more tanned than the others: it gives courage! - luggage were recovered, we pass a new security control without incident, it finally comes out of the terminal and there, slap: moist heat stuns us: it is night, and in addition, a horde of Mexican throws at us. After reconnected our neurons, it appears they want to help us carry our bags ... ahhhhhhh! We accept. - four yards away, we find our guide, it is still too heavy. Time to give pennies to Mexico (it begins ...) we do checkers in the air-conditioned buses, sweaty. - after the bus was filled with about thirty people, we take the direction of Valladolid, our first port. Good news: we have only two hours away! General defeat: everyone falls asleep. - when the bus stops and we are asked to come down, it runs. Even more zombie a zombie, you go into the lobby, then outside, then into a kind of restaurant. It must be 9:30 p.m. local time. It sits down quickly came to the first table. Finally, everyone seems haggard (see photo above). First meal eaten quickly: with a kind of soup paste the input, we feared the worst for the future. Anyway, between dream and jet-lag, fatigue and excitement, we do not care of what we eat. - half an hour later, everyone found his room. - after a quick tour of the property and a cold shower (the next day we will understand that the hot water and cold water in the shower were reversed, contrary to what was said), it goes down quickly. Tomorrow, the alarm will sound at 7:00!
course, we did not take boats to go try to pet them. It stays inside quietly and we quickdraw cameras. In any case it's a beautiful moment, when the engines shut down. Only us and them. Then on the way home, you might see (stealth) a big alligator and we will make a breakthrough in the mangrove trees and the atmosphere so unique. Like all good things come to an end, we must return ... well, not quite as the south (well to 14h as always) we eat on the beach back to our starting point ... (Seen in the background on the second photo). 
