We’re really pleased to welcome a new contributor who will be providing regular reviews of DVDs that you can hire from the Library.
Ventnor based Liam Madden has a passion for film, as you’ll see from his reviews. We hope you enjoy them and don’t forget that overnight hire of DVDs at Island libraries costs just at only 49p for children and 98p for adults. Ed
Life and the various struggles and enlightening glimpses that it brings can make for a variety of different experiences that often are bewildering, complex, frightening, yet always changing and very rarely boring.
With the joyful appearance of BLUE at the Ventnor Library here is really a golden opportunity to view a film that quite simply could save your life.
This is not only a chance to view a film that is touching and stunning to watch but to be moved emotionally by simplicity and philosophy.
Guidance: Key to life
What is effectual from BLUE is that Kieslowski had really spent a long time attempting to understand life and why he may have been Poland’s most famous film director, he managed to convey through his films – guidance.
However, although made in 1993 and successful throughout Europe and most of the world, BLUE established a focus for anyone who adhered to the theory that life was not a film and therefore ran to a different set of principles.
BLUE is a film that although on the surface is a simple and interesting study of one women’s perseverance to get through life after loss of everything she loves, it also seems to be an incredible and accurate portrayal by Juliette Binoche that makes it work.
Life is remarkably persistent and although at times it makes very little sense for a great number of people BLUE is a chance to explore the idea that a great deal of the problems with it are essential.
Have you seen this film? What’s your view? Why not add it as a comment?
Next up Liam’s review of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, a film directed by Zhang Yimou.
Check out the trailer below of the 1993 film, Blue.
Reviewer profile
Writer, artist, journalist and graphic designer, Liam J Madden left the Isle of Wight at the age of 17 and attended Southampton Institute from 1985-1987.
In 1988 he reviewed his first film ‘The Last Emperor’. Liam J. Madden once attended the after wedding of Stephen Hawking outside Cambridge University by complete accident and he would like to apologise for getting in the frame when the Professor had his wedding photographs taken.
He drinks latte and reviews Dvd’s for the Ventnor Library and is currently writing a continuation to his novel ‘SAVE CHANGES’ – which explores the enlightening problems manifested by time-pollution.
