From the end : Ils salivent (They Salivate) (2020) by Ariane Boukerche at Cambridge Film Festival 2021

Ils salivent (They Salivate) (2020) by Ariane Boukerche at Cambridge Film Festival 2021

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21 November

From the end : Ils salivent (They Salivate) (2020) :

Ariane Boukerche at Cambridge Film Festival 2021

Carpe diem*, so Th'Agent only just honoured the promise to director / writer Ariane Boukerche to watch her stunningly visual and provocative-of-connectedness twenty-minute short from the @camfilmfest @CFF_ShortFusion Shorts to Unnerve sequence :

Lots and lots going on ! !

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* Such songs : https://t.co/2mttQv7Fm9 (admittedly known via Sting) and https://t.co/vMjfUUfcc4 [not the Gabriel reference wanted, but actually better]

* Party vibe / trax of The Matrix (1999), Fatboy Slim's https://t.co/Q7hCHoK1u0, but mixed with Ripley, Ducournau, &c.

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Essentially, however you can, do try to go watch the whole strand, relish the journey as much as where it takes you ! :)https://t.co/uIwplH9aaAhttps://t.co/J636iSyXhDhttps://t.co/Gw49KRo1P7

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* Which - if we're not that, ahem, famously talented average classicist Johnson - we only know through Williams in Dead Poets, etc.

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Five Preview-style Tweets about Cesc Gay's Sentimental (The People Upstairs) (2020) at Cambridge Film Festival @ 40

Five Preview-style Tweets about Cesc Gay's The People Upstairs (2020) at Cambridge Film Festival

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21 November

Five Preview-style Tweets about Cesc Gay's Sentimental (The People Upstairs) (2020) at Cambridge Film Festival @ 40

A quick few v. non-spoilery Tweets on #CameraCatalonia at Day 4 of #CFF2021 @ 40

Taking Sentimental (The People Upstairs) (2020) first, and before expecting to have an interview with the Catalan strand's programmer and Th'Agent's friend about the task [watch this space] :

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* As with #CameraCatalonia's El reí borni² (The One-Eyed King) (2016), we at least start by taking sides

* Equally, as one could see this microcosm as a proxy for all sorts of dissolutions / severances (e.g. BX itself³) ; one might recall Inception (2010) as a parable ?

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* Not Catalan, but there's https://t.co/kCTrjU20vZ

¹ In interview, Haneke says that he was amazed that Cannes' audience didn't walk out of it : https://t.co/0zWewXG7Xg

² Previewed here :https://t.co/72LFSam4u1

And here :https://t.co/tmoUSLwu9h

³ I.e. BX is BS

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* Sentimental* (The People Upstairs) (2020) [Scr 3] preceded by

* Sis dies corrents [Six Ordinary Days] (The Odd-Job Men) (2021) [Scr 1]

Both are available to watch in person (23 and 24 November, respectively) !

* Cesc Gay films Ficción & V.O.S., in earlier Catalan strands.

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Post-script :

PS Some audiences resist having permission to laugh at a comedy, despite others (though not Catalan / Spanish speakers) inviting them to follow suit :

My big recollection of laughter and a film is when a group of people in Screen 1 were intent on belly-laughs in @HappyEndFilm !

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