1. A private relationship
Sunday, May 17th, 2009This was the title of the film in Spain.
The original title was more impressive: "Une Liaison pornographique". But if the title changed the original Spanish, in English it was surreal, "An Affair of Love" (to Have an Affair, in English, is having an affair)
and the Spanish poster title remains under the title French original, but is that English has not only lost the original title but retranslated into French title, and call him "Une Liaison d'Amour" ( !) (which is not French, nor anything)
I imagine discussions marqueting departments of distributors, including those defending the right of the author to call his film as he wants, and those who believe that dirty word scares the public. Again, who had to win won.
And that was the movie?
it is a love story of a man (Sergi Lopez) and a woman (Nathalie Baye) is known through an advertisement for carrying out a sexual fantasy that both share. The first appointment will lead to another and what was at first merely a sexual bond, becomes a passionate relationship that ends.
In the film the two characters are remembering, separately, their love story to an interviewer whose face does not appear. This feature was essential to the director, because he was interested in making a film about love, but also on the memory. "In the interview they discover that the two lived that story of love three years ago and have not removed the head, so they need to tell anyone, but would cease to exist, Fonteyne said. The pornographic movie is just that , which is naked before a third party. That helped me to work on different levels of emotion. What it feels like to fall in love and then to remember, and it turns out the most exciting thing is that memory. "
But my post today was not that, but I posted an ad that one day some years ago (a few, because the movie is 99!) In a national newspaper:
"A private relationship. Have you seen the movie? Want to live with me? Call me at ... email me at ... "
And two comments. First, I also wrote the word damn, and second, that at that time not many people had email.
I must say that I can not collapse the phone (did not call anyone), or saturated the mailbox. But when he had lost hope, I received an email.
"I saw the movie. I would like to live. With conditions. "
