my favorite film ever

My favorite movie is la fille sur le pont (the girl on the bridge). I can’t get tired of seeing it.

It’s a French movie, made on 1999. The director is Patrice Leconte, and the leading actors are Vanessa Paradis and Daniel Auteuil. In the movie they play Adèle, a girl who’s kind of force to start to believe in luck; and Gabor, a knife thrower.

I don’t want to give the impression of this as a typical romantic film, because it is not… there’s a lot of tension, pauses, looks at the eyes, and sometimes there is jealousy too. But they don’t really get too sentimental or affected…
All the scenes are in black and white, but you never feel you miss the color, the photograph is beautiful, and the soundtrack is great.

The film starts with a close up of Adele talking about her horrible luck. The conversation is more like an interrogation, there’s a female voice asking her about the story of her life, and you can see something like a jury behind her. The scene -that hasn’t had any relation to the rest of the film- takes 7.15 minutes

After that opening scene, you start to listen to the music and then you follow the flying camera going to a bridge in Paris. There’s Adèle, who’s planning to jump into the Seine River. But she’s not alone, Gabor comes and offers her to make a deal: she can become his diana. He tells her that if she wants to kill herself, she’ll not lose anything by trying.


Here’s a link of one of my favorites scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np1bn6P747o

a tour in Santiago city

If someone who doesn’t know Santiago came here to visit the city, I’d had some places to suggest.

Here’s my perfect tour…

First of all, go to the Pablo Neruda’s Santiago house, named “La Chascona” due to the nickname of the last poet’s wife, Matilde. Chascona, in Chilean Spanish, is a person who has a huge unbrushed hair.

There is a painting of Matilde made by Diego Rivera -a famous Mexican painter- that represents the hidden love that Pablo and Matilde shared. She has two faces, and hidden in her hair the silhouette of the poet face
I chose this place because the house is beautiful and it has a lot of little details that talks you about many parts of Chile and the world, besides he is a very well-know Chilean poet, and is interesting go to see where he lived.

After that you can go take a walk at the Parque Forestal, a great park that is near to the house, a beautiful place to talk and enjoy the sunny days that we have in springtime. Walking in the park you’re going to found the Bellas Artes Museum, you can go visit it and see a permanent collection of Chilean paintings, pay attention on the Claudio Bravo an Roberto Matta’s paintings, my favorites ones.

When you finish the museum tour you can have lunch in one of the coffee places and restaurants on the sector. Later you can take the metro to the La Moneda station; there you can visit the government palace and the great museum under the building. After that you can walk to the Plaza de Armas and see the Cathedral of the city, is the historical part of the visit.

the mapuche hunger strike is 57 days on!

Today, September 7th, the mapuche hunger strike is 57 days on; and no one sees a possibility of an affective and good response. The problem is that in Chile the constitution and the laws makes resistance and differences looks like terrorism.

(Ok, I know, this is not the only country that makes that, is the job of all the national States, but it doesn’t make it better)

The government has serious troubles figuring out how to give any solution to the actual situation, because in the national political movements it’s all about making good coalitions, nothing about real people and real solutions. Piñera wants to look good, the UDI people denies the situation, who knows what can came out of here…

I’m not saying that the previous government had do a good job dealing with the ethnical differences, you know, all because we were living like 500 years ignoring the existence of the mapuche people.

That’s why I don’t really see anything remarkable, shocking or surprising of this piece of news… is not really new. I think that this is the kind of things that could appear a little more in the TV, things that makes people question the state of the things, not only receive what they want for us to think about.

Everyone is trying to save the image of the country, the big and important country that celebrates the bicentenary of independent life… but we are not really free, not if we don’t think for our self.