Anyone else love this film?

[Netzach]

The O thread got me thinking, mostly because the book left me so cold....

Maybe I'm just a truly sick pervert. But Fellini's La Strada...anyone else have a D/s spin on this film?

I think this film is the ultimate training manual for the slave. This and Kirkegaard.

I cry every damn time.

 

[Pure]

I will have to see it again and let you know. It's been decades.

J.

 

[esclave_PP]

Yes I'll let you know too going to see if it is at the local video store....sounds really intriguing!

 

[ZenDragoness]

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[esclave_PP]

oh how neat! That also sounds like more to put on my list to watch! Thanks! Let us know how you liked it!

 

[Netzach]

Re: Fellini/Pasolini

I have to agree with Netzach, Fellinis La Strada (Anthony Quinn and Guiletta Massimo) is one of the strongest movies in movie history. I would also recommend movies by Pasolini and the whole work of Fellini.

On Sunday i am going to see Takeshi Kitanos movie Dolls. Costumes by Yamamoto. This film has been appraised last
year in Cannes. After 1,5 years it will finally been shown in
Germany for the first time on Sunday. I'm excited, firstly because it is a new film by Kitano and secondly it was in some publications described as a S/m movie.

Ohhhh, I hope it comes to the states soon if it hasn't....

*Huge fan, simply huge off to IMDB and Google*

 

[ZenDragoness]

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[Netzach]

I must find it, I must.

Maybe at the International Film Fest here this year, which is where I caught Hana Bi. My favorite of his so far.

That's sounds like saying "Hana Bi" is a courageous story about cancer. Strange conclusion. His films are never about one thing, anyway.

 

[Netzach]

But to keep it on track, I do find that Gelsomina personifies a slavelike kind of agape.

Her Master is highly falliable, in fact an asshole.

It's not so much stand by your man as it is stand by your ideal. However tarnished, freakish and strange the vision.

Fellini was writing autobiography through her, as usual.

But I definitely was able to watch this film with a master/slave spin in my perverse mind.

 

[ZenDragoness]

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[bridgeburner]

All hail Netflix which carries both of these films!

And while we're at it because it sounds so similar All Hail Netzach for bringing them to my attention by starting this thread!


-B

 

[arctic-stranger]

What i am still puzzled about is: how come, that the journalist of a german newspaper (Süddeutsche Zeitung) came to the conclusion, that Dolls is a movie about BDSM. It is a film about love, life, dead, men and women, patience, music, nature, colors and fabrics, but it is surely not a movie about BDSM. Yes, there is a rope, playing an important role in the movie - but that does not make a more a movie about bdsm, than par example a movie about sailing ships.

Greetings to all and Netzach especially

ZenDragoness

Sueddeutsche Zeitung is a southern German paper. Down there, anything without lederhosen is kinky....

 

[Little Bird]

Paertly true: The southern Part of germany (the one with the beer, "weisswurst", "Lederhosen", low buildings with flowers before every window, and so on... ) is definetly strongly affected by the catholic church and the most conservtive part, but the süddeutsche zeitung does not fit very well in there. It's a very open minded newspaper and they arn't shy of most things.

At least in the lager Citys of the northern part, there is allready nothing today, that people would really think "kinky"...

 

[arctic-stranger]

Paertly true: The southern Part of germany (the one with the beer, "weisswurst", "Lederhosen", low buildings with flowers before every window, and so on... ) is definetly strongly affected by the catholic church and the most conservtive part, but the süddeutsche zeitung does not fit very well in there. It's a very open minded newspaper and they arn't shy of most things.

At least in the lager Citys of the northern part, there is allready nothing today, that people would really think "kinky"...

I always read the Frankfurter Allgemeine....But i lived in Bonn, the Hauptdorf.