n a message dated 16/09/2002 12:09:43 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< And my, what a very very sublime performance from a 4-year old actress. Thivisol who also appeared as the daughter of Juliette Binoche in CHOCOLAT and LES ENFANTS DU SIECLE, has this rarest of ability among children to break anyone's hearts with a quiver of her upper lip and when her eyes well with tears. I don't know how she was directed by Doillon because its as if the camera is like a voyeur to her subsequent actions. When she tearfully slides up and down the car's hood after being told by her father that her mother died has got to be the most heartbreaking scene that paralleled Fernanda Montenegro's last scene in CENTRO DO BRASIL.>> A sideline on this observation is that the film was heavily criticised in some quarters for precisely that reason: some found that the only answer to the question "how did he get such a performance from the little girl?" was that he must have made her sad, told her upsetting things, or something similar. I don't know if this is true, although I wouldn't discount the possibility. I do wonder if a child that young is capable of acting. This reminds me of the story about Bob Ezrin's tactics when producing Lou Reed's Berlin album, which, as anyone who's heard it can attest, contains some of the most harrowing music of the last few decades. On the song "The Kids", there suddenly appear out of the speakers children's screams, which made me look around the room, startled, when I first heard them. They are chilling. The rumour, which has taken on full-blown myth status, is that Ezrin told the children that their mother had died, in order to get the horrified reactions, which he recorded. I MUST STRESS THAT I HAVE NO IDEA IF THIS IS ACTUALLY TRUE! Makes ya think, though. Azeem in London NP: Eddi Reader - Angels & Electricity
