A story of love. A story of lost love. A cry of despair, unfulfilled hopes and ambitions, a cry of inner devastation.
The universe, which is not favorable to boring losers, turned away from Him ... but it turns out to live poorly and sluggishly tremble, working in a literary agency ... Immersed in ironic reflections and memories of the past - memories that, as it turned out, did not fade at all with time, were not covered with a layer of dust - He, skillfully wearing a mask of indifference, but unable to hide emotional and physical excitement, awaits a meeting with his Muse and Love of a lifetime.
The story – sad, melancholic, exciting – holds your attention tenaciously for 45 minutes. The story is ordinary and in itself is not something outstanding. But acting... Actors' game! Actors' game!! And first of all, Alan Rickman's play... Here He is to me like a diamond of the most beautiful cut. This slowness, aristocracy, self-irony. His hands... his eyes... eyebrow movement... and a voice! Everything is fascinating, despite the lack of Russian dubbing ... pathetic subtitles that only distract your attention ... you need to have time here and there ...
Forty-five minutes of aesthetic enjoyment... and Alan Rickman's triumph. Bravo!
This film is somewhere between full and short meter - 48 minutes, British director Niall McCormick filmed the poem of the same name by the poet Christopher Reed "The Song of Lunch" / The Song of Lunch, 2010. He and She meet 15 years after breaking up at an Italian restaurant in London’s Soho district, with which their past is connected, and, as you might expect, nothing good is happening. She, who came here from Paris, where she lives in a happy marriage with the man to whom she once left Him, and children, He still works as an editor at a publishing house, does not receive any satisfaction from his work, and is lonely in his personal life. She's trying to start a conversation. He is immersed in his thoughts and hovers in them, as evidently he has done before. The dialogue is minimal, and we hear the author’s monologue (and maybe it’s Him?). She says, He looks away at her, gradually getting drunk. The conversation never turned out, everything is in the past, quite in accordance with Shpalikov – “never go back to the old places”, I agree, you should not do this. It's gone. Starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, it's worth watching for.
“The taste of the last sip remains on the tongue.”
There are different categories of films: horror, mysticism, adventure, comedy. Among this kaleidoscope, it is sometimes difficult to find a real diamond lasting 47 minutes. "Lunch Song" is a television play that is superbly played by Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. This is an excursion into the consciousness of a man, into his soul withering from time to time.
The beauty of this small film is in the acting, close-ups and poetic images that the screenwriter successfully incorporated into the film. Here everything is poetic: memories of sex with a beloved woman, drinking alcohol, images of restaurant visitors and the main characters.
Operating work is beyond praise. Here is the thin neck of the main character, her delicate wrists, “the net of wrinkles on the joints is much more noticeable, but the nails without varnish are well-groomed and polished.”
Close-up we show drunken from the “ink slow substance” eyes of the main character. You start getting drunk with him. The images are so detailed that you can see the smallest detail. It’s like watching a movie and reading a poem.
The plot of the film is also unusual. After 15 years, the former lovers decided to meet in a small Italian restaurant, where they dined 15 years ago. “The taste of the last gulp remained on the tongue” of the main characters who have not seen each other for a long time.
And here's a short lunch. What do you say to each other about how she and he have changed? The film tells that time seems ruthless and kills the past. However, we are shown a change, and you begin to understand the ruthless killer.
Despite all the changes, the main characters still empathize with each other. “This veil of tears in Orpheus’ eyes which pride will not allow to shed.” The Lunch Song reminds us that life can be hard to change: our habits stay with us, our sins stay with us. No matter how hard we try, we cannot get rid of them. This movie is about how we sometimes lose loved ones, whom we sometimes try to save, but the factors of life prevent us from doing this. We are like Orpheus who sometimes try to save their Eurydice from the realm of the dead. This idea is very poetic.
"Lunch Song" is better to watch with Russian subtitles, which is unlikely to understand twenty-year-olds.
After Alan Rickman's death, it was like a bunch of fans crying out for him. Unfortunately, I knew him only in secondary roles, but then I woke up to the desire to understand: what is so special about this actor and his work?
At first sight, the unsightly drama intended for television, captivated me from the very first shots. The plot is painfully simple, but still urgent. An old man, many years later, meets a woman with whom, as it turns out, he is in love to this day. A beautiful and beautiful story of his experiences and anxieties toward her and what he feels from just touching her. We only have an hour to get to know these people and get to know them. They don't tell us their names. Only He and She.
First of all, I was struck by the incredible chemistry between the main characters. Gentle and sensual Emma Thompson and charismatic and somewhat clumsy Alan Rickman managed to get me through a lot of emotions. They are both impossible in this movie. Every comment, every look makes you think and worry: how will their meeting end? This film is only two actors and one location, but it is not boring. For an hour I watched it with ecstasy, catching every emotion on the faces of the actors.
I also really liked the camera plans. Beautiful large details shown in the frame. This movie is not like all the others I’ve seen. It is special and incomparable, because we have nothing else like it. Who would know what to expect from an ordinary TV movie, which can not even be found with Russian voiceovers, only with subtitles.
If you've wondered, like me, why Alan and Emma are considered among the best, here's the answer. I recommend this film to everyone, because it is a great audience experience that will give you a lot of emotions and a pleasant aftertaste from your viewing.
9 out of 10
Yes, this film, which conquered me on the first view, will not be able to let go for long. At least for a long time. Now I think I never will. I’ve watched it twice in a row, but I know I’ll watch it again and again. I want to see him again now.
Who knows if I’d ever seen this movie if Alan Rickman hadn’t been here. Maybe not. However, I dare to assume that hardly anyone would be able to play this role. Just as it should have been.
The very beginning of the film, when we don’t see the character yet, but hear the sounds, including his coughing, reminded me of the atmosphere of the theater, when the audience waits for the performance. And I didn't wait in vain. I want to describe what happened in the film in detail, but it will be too much. But there are moments that cannot be said.
First, the manner in which the film is made is fascinating from the very beginning. To follow simultaneously the actions and ornately stated thoughts of the hero is akin to some magic. Here he goes outside and you stare at the environment that is so familiar to him, that he sees every day. His thoughts are not so trivial. To see the incarnation of writers who once lived (if I understand correctly), who among us can boast of this? Or maybe the upcoming event is setting it up in the appropriate way?
How interesting it is to look not only into the thoughts and feelings of another person in such exciting moments for him, but in the thoughts of a man as a woman. It's as if the veil of the Holy of Holies has been opened for a while and you can finally see something you never dreamed of. We see how much he is worried before the meeting, how he makes mistakes from excitement, how he throws on one or another mask. As, unable to cope with his feelings and words and actions that do not obey him, he clearly drinks too much. How he annoys himself, throws away words from her.
Yeah, by the way. She is his first true and strong love. She, performed by the wonderful Emma Thompson, comes to the cafe where they were once together. And at first glance, in the first minutes of their communication, it seems that she is rather superficial about this meeting. That her feelings are long gone. But we do not hear her thoughts and feelings, so at first it is misleading. But then questions begin to surface, which are becoming more and more. So I looked at her, and I thought, "Br/."
- here you are - "a good wife and a loving mother", but you fly here at the most convenient time for you, so what?
- here you are so happy, kissing this stranger for you, in fact, a man on the lips when you meet, looking with tender eyes;
You then reproach him for looking at your wrist, yet remember to remind him of his look at the waitress.
- you came here all groomed, kissing on the lips, and then you blame him for looking at you like that? But isn't that why you came? To see that look again? Wasn't that what you came to see when he offered to meet after all these years?
- and then you start stroking his hand, and even the palm below, which is quite intimate. And that's what you're doing with the hand of that man who couldn't even look at you with a special look? Are you sure this is just to express sympathy? Really? Is that what happens?
Most importantly, both experience something similar. Both secretly expected something special from this meeting, both are not indifferent to each other to the extent that it is no longer just a tribute to memories, but both are so focused on their own experiences that they are unable to see the interlocutor with a sober look. It's not about wine. And I want to shout, "What are you?" Wake up! How can you not see the obvious? But they're not spectators, they're participants. And this, as often happens in life, does not allow you to look at the situation from the outside and even more so to penetrate into each other's thoughts.
Now the finale. Let it be a drama, let it be alone in that moment. But actually the finale is open. There's no epilogue. There's an ellipsis. Yes, she had to pay money, but no one forced her to take care of his bag. The hero says she took care of her. Yeah, he'll be ashamed, but I'm sure he'll text her. Being at a distance, he will find the right words and decide to write her everything as it is. And no doubt that she would prefer to read his letter, because it is obvious that it was painful for her to part so that everything ended between them.
"Massimo." The restaurant owner. Yes, he is old, he seems almost lifeless, but... he is still alive! Not only the name of the restaurant remains. I empathized with the characters, I want it to end differently, and I am grateful for the opportunity to take this finale as an open one. I am very happy to have discovered this film and I am grateful to everyone who created this miracle. And especially Alan Rickman, who is so few people can play like that! What a joy that he was, that he left us such magically played roles.
10 out of 10
'Lunch song' struck me in the heart. 47 minutes, which fits a love story and a 15-year aftertaste.
A British film, or not a film, about the meeting of two people who were once connected by feelings (11, 12 or 15 years ago). Now she has a husband, children and wrinkles on her finger folds. He has a cold paper office, ashes in his chest, a volume of poems about her beauty. She is stern and ruthless in her optimism and carelessness, she looks at him with her clear eyes, in which there is no pain, but only light warmth, kisses him on the lips when she meets him - kind of, just, but she cannot but guess that this kiss will remain scorched on his lips.
The narrative rustles slowly, thoughtfully, touching every look, thought, smell. And these little things shine through the story of great passion - to take a piece from each other's plate according to tradition, out of habit; to see again how deftly she picks up her fingers for another gesture from the past; to watch her hips leave you in the hall with the most contradictory feeling in the world. ' Mind your own business' [It's none of your business]. Isn't it mine? It was mine. My stranger. Mine or someone else's. First mine, then a stranger.
"You can be a prisoner in your head." - Iris Murdoch
"Lunch Song" attracted my attention because of the participation in the film of two beautiful British stars, or rather because of Alan Rickman and the lovely Emma Thompson. What a tragedy for the whole world cinema that Rickman did not. He was a wonderful actor with a capital letter. Watching movies with him is a pleasure. Alan Rickman is something soulful and very subtle. He was a great actor, his memory was bright.
This television drama was released in 2010 and only runs forty minutes. But how beautiful this little movie is. I want to see so many more films like this. You watch the whole movie with great pleasure and in one breath. The fact is that the directing, the script, and the camera work were excellent. All this was fueled by the participation of favorite stars, which is why the movie turned out so wonderful.
This is the story of an aging literary editor and his former muse. They met for lunch in a cozy restaurant, but this meeting is doomed to be sad. The hero never published a single collection of poems in his entire life, and he is an eternal prisoner in his head. I analyze everything and think, the hero gets drunk, and the meeting of two people from their past lives becomes awkward, neither as it could be.
Alan Rickman was a master of difficult roles, and this role was his. With his respectable, intellectual, far outstanding, very smart, but gloomy hero, the viewer walks through his story and sees that a person who owns a huge mass of knowledge and subtleties is still alone in his soul and not confident in himself. Watching this movie, you always think that in someone else’s head, anything can happen.
The participation of Emma Thompson undoubtedly brightened up this film. Thompson and Rickman already played together on the screen, and Rikman shot her in his film, giving her the lead role, but how nice it was again to see them together on the screen. Emma as always glows. It has some kind of innate kindness and light that you feel with every cell of your body. She is a unique actress that I especially appreciate.
This little movie won’t appeal to everyone. It is for those who feel, think, understand. The movie was very deep and intelligent. I enjoyed watching it. I rate "Lunch Song" positively and say yes to the film. Thank you.
A brief description does not explain to us the essence of the picture, but it is good, you do not know in advance how and what will affect you. And it seems to me that only those who, in one way or another, have visited the place of the main character can deeply touch.
Short tape, only 47 minutes. 47 minutes of lunch for two people. We'll never know the names of the heroes. Just He and She. Former lovers.
Despite the initial desire to hear English, I regretted watching with subtitles. I recommend watching in translation, because it is very interesting to watch the expression of the characters, their movements, especially Rickman. Reading subtitles is distracting, and to break away from watching Alan Rickman is not at all desirable.
Alan Rickman A look that constantly looks far away. A man left there in the past with his untainted love and faith.
Emma Thompson Her character is a woman who you believe in. Is there anything wrong with such a woman? Beautiful face. Soft, calm voice. A wonderful memory. Great sex. What a great sex it was. It's okay. It's okay. But why does it hurt so much?
For some reason Brodsky remembered. I think he would also look at his beloved M.B., to whom he devoted many poems, if he had such a meeting in his life. Although Brodsky would be ... more isolated, or something. More open in its manifestations, reckless, and would not apologize, because “forget one life – a person needs at least another life.” And I have lived that portion.” And the hero of the film, it turns out, is not. Many years, one memory. The memory of beautiful love, the perfection of beauty, the belief that it is true and unshakable.
This review is particularly hard for me to write. Knowing what the main character experienced, I would not wish anything like this on anyone. However, the film needs to be watched. To know, to avoid. I believe that no one needs this pain, it is necessary to predict, see and close this door forever, without even opening it.
So what do we talk about? Returning to How many years?(c)
Their views meet as usual
All of which have nothing in them.
A film like "Lunch Song" doesn't let go for long.
At first, you watch a movie with subtitles, torn between reading and watching. Then, download the file with subtitles and already slowly read, remembering the film. Time passes and the desire to revisit the film returns. And now it's more harmonious. Knowledge of the text allows you to enjoy the film: look at the faces of the characters, listen to the intonation of their voice, “read” facial expressions of eyes, gestures, body movements.
Alan Rickman's voice acts like hypnosis. Hypnosis, which does not let go, no matter how hard you try to wake up. You are afraid to move, so as not to disturb the harmony emanating from the film.
Cinematography is beyond praise. Close-up lovingly filmed slow-motion scenes of eye expressions, facial expressions, splashing wine into a glass, hand movements, trifles, each frame is impregnated with philosophy, shrouded intimacy. The sound of the voices of both actors helps to perceive smells, tastes, emotions and feelings.
A small, 47-minute film with a huge magnetic force.
Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson gave their game aesthetic pleasure.
Movie poem.
The film is a feeling.
So touching, so familiar. Hopeless, fleeting, lost. Everyone has their own. Maybe I already did. Maybe someday I will.
The dishes are tried and recognized as very tasty. Then, as before, they take pieces of food from each other for trial and evaluation. Mutual exchange of comparisons and compliments, reminiscent of that glorious time, while all was well. What was, but will not be... How much fun we had. Was it? Was. Yeah, yeah. There is no evil in us.
And despite the nostalgic forms of joy,
Living in the past is the first sign of old age
It's not a remarkable day. Two people meet at lunch: He (Rickman) and She (Thompson). In the distant past, they were bound by love, but now they are nothing more than just old acquaintances experiencing a sharp attack of nostalgia. He became a literary editor, and frankly, a lousy poet. Plus, he now has a clear addiction to drinking. She is beautiful and happy with life. The conversation is not glued...
This film can not be called a full-length film, since its timing is unusual for such a case of 47 minutes, but the short film “Lunch Song” is also not. Rather, it is a watch TV product that is filmed in tons in our time. However, the quality of these products ranges from incredible suck to really good, smart and quality things. In this case, we have the second option.
"Lunch Song" caught my attention with the cast and high rating on Kinopoisk. Alan Rickman put a lot of stress on his shoulders, and I think there is no doubt that this certainly very talented actor with such a task coped one or two times. Behind the scenes, we hear his voice, poetically describing everything that is happening, and this is the main beauty of the film. What beautiful literary turns are used there, ornate formulations, elegant metaphors - the attentive viewer is simply obliged to receive aesthetic pleasure of the highest order.
But directly to the script, to the plot twists, there are certain questions. Not that, the plot is far-fetched, rather the opposite - too kind of bland, and there is no one to empathize with - She is clearly in good shape, He is shown to be too downward spiritually, like a rag, to God. On the other hand, the film was clearly not made for this. So I guess everything is fine.
In general, I recommend it. A good sketch with good actors and interesting thoughts. Interesting thing.
All you have to do is open your hands and say “Bravo,” Alan Rickman.
Genius movie! For me, it was my second film. But if the first film “Stewardess” hooked me well, that “Lunch Song” without exaggeration sent, in boxing terminology, to the knockout. Not even in a knockdown, but in a knockout.
I don’t know if the director or screenwriter or Alan Rickman himself read Vladimir Nabokov, but the fact that the film is simply like a sponge saturated with Nabokov’s language is a fact. Like a great artist with the finest strokes Alan Rickman gave us a real masterpiece! Lord, help me to choose the words to convey the emotions that the authors and creators of the film “Lunch Song” managed.
Absolutely extraordinary story. The main character, a literary editor, left his workplace in a dusty office to meet his former love in a small restaurant. And then the director uses naturalistic details, comparisons and assessments of everything that happens on behalf of the main character. And it's fascinating. Well, when the meeting itself happens, you just need to take a paper, a pen and write it down in order to learn later.
When the hero gets out on the roof of the restaurant, falls asleep and wakes up with an internal push, I wanted to call him a pigeon that fought off the pack.
What an amazing Emma Thompson! The woman Rickman once loved. She's different now. It's a lady. A good mother and wife, in her own words, to which you take your word. She's just a model of a woman. He hasn't changed at all. Nope. Of course he's changed. But only on the outside. And not for the better. We can see that his life has tattered him. In his heart, everything is unchanged. He feeds on the past. I think this person simply did not find himself in this life, could not self-realize. That's all his troubles. He had the opportunity to grow into a great writer. There are a lot of such people in life and there are also a lot of films on this topic, but how expressive this story is!
The main thing first looked at the fifth point of the waitress, and then on the wrist of the former lover, and now married lady. You can't teach that. It is a natural gift that Alan Rickman possesses. This is the first time I've seen him on screen. Now I will follow his work more closely, however, as well as the work of Emma Thompson.
At the moment, on the sixth of November 2013, it’s not one of the best movies I’ve seen. Watch the “Lunch Song” and get delighted with this most beautiful creation!
10 out of 10
Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. People who can just sit on stage and thread into a needle’s eye will be impossible to take their eyes off. It always seemed to me that such actors could be entrusted with any text: from empty idleness to the deepest dramaturgy. But in this film they came across a masterpiece of text. It's hard for me to judge who won my personal Oscar: him, her or the voiceover? Before that, I had only met Nabokov with such an interesting description of reality, appearance or inner experiences. Delicious, accurate and refined allegories, as if sung in the velvet voice of Alan Rickman, whom his colleagues nicknamed The Voice for good reason. For 47 minutes, you're in the enveloping atmosphere of expressive English. Who says English is poor compared to other languages?
Zero everything! He, she, a table in a restaurant, a bottle of wine and text, text, text. The deliberately thought-out paradox of what is happening is that speaking, speaking, talking, they said nothing to each other. Feel it? Maybe. To fully understand the meaning of the expression “to be at the point of no return”, you can watch this film. Do not pass the point, namely to be in it. For years, you don’t dare to continue your life, turn a page, even change a book. They are afraid to move and miss what they want. Start the action and don't end, stumble and be silent. Where else can you see such a vividly lived emotion? I will not name any more of these films.
Of course I do. Of course, only in the original with subtitles. Of course I will.
The unexpectedly poetic story of one dinner, at which two "ex-boyfriends," many years later, try to remember the past. Married in Paris, he is a drinking literary editor in London, and has long had nothing in common. And for 45 minutes Rickman in his low velvet voice voice (a poem by Christopher Reed) his memories, emotions and actions, even the most unsightly.
Shot stunningly beautiful: here his gaze is clouded and pictures from the past arise, and after a second She calls him and the camera focuses on her thin wrists or angry mouth line. Together with him, we feel the alluring call of a glass of velvet chianti or are distracted by the elastically curved back of a flirtatious waitress. From the game of Emma Thompson and Rickman is breathtaking here - the whole history of their relationship is sparingly enclosed in close-ups of faces and a few sharp phrases.
A fascinating and frank excursion to the head of a man who is acutely sorry for the passing of happiness.
In almost marketing terms, literature and film are longtime rivals. If at the beginning of the last century, moving pictures were just fun, then after a powerful theoretical understanding of cinema in the 20-30s, cinema shrugged its shoulders and began to declare itself as a new form of consciousness and a new art. It would not be theater or literature, it would be cinema.
Cinema grew, sought its language, won hearts and minds, and became an industry. Terrible? Perhaps, but all this horror is quite natural. However, in our lives there is always a place not only for feat, but also for cinema in the highest and boldest sense. Similar things happened to literature, but not on that scale.
But I think I got carried away because I wanted to say a little bit about something else: despite similarities and well-known collaborations, literature and film don’t get along well. In the sense that as soon as a director gives a lot of space to literature, cinema becomes secondary. After all, if the director does not show, but tells, especially, some literary source, then this is more “literature for the poor” than cinema. And not the last role in the formation of such a feeling creates a voiceover text.
Charlie Kaufman, the original Hollywood screenwriter, and I think very good, in "Adaptations" directly says through the lips of one character that the voiceover is a moveton. Although, I must say, in the same tape, this taboo is violated by them. However, the rule would not be the rule without exceptions. The voiceover text can play an independent role and be an assistant to the cinema, rather than simply explaining what is "bad" seen or gluing scenes into an awkward script. For example, Trier’s attempt to combine literature, theater and cinema in Dogville simply required a strong literary text, and the joint work of Alain Rob-Grier and his namesake René on the film Last year in Marienbad is an unprecedented case of how the text does not concede to the visual part. The text in this tape is so powerful that sometimes replays the movie on its territory. The text did not describe, and the frame did not illustrate.
“Lunch Song” is one of those works where the text is a necessary element of the whole work. “The Song of Lunch” is a poem by Christopher Reid, even if not poetic, and it would be a mistake not to voice it. Consequently, director Niall McCormick had two options: either create a video sequence for the text, or combine the text and video in some other way, as Rob-Griller and Renee did. However, Niall McCormick did not find new reasons for the text and video, so the text became a dictator. But here's the thing: text communicates seamlessly with the picture. Cinema is plastically amenable to the poem, following its movement strictly, preserving dignity and self-worth. Most likely, it is in the images that the director creates, they do not resonate, and therefore create harmony, the only possible effect in this case. Elegy flows in its rhythm, and the sequence in a way echoes it. Therefore, the text can slow down the course of film time, make the movie look stop at the details and fleeting experiences of the hero. The text, by and large, deprived the cinema of its main property - its swiftness, so a minute dinner of "former " turned into almost an hour tape. Although I will add the “but” that is characteristic of any “abnormal” (see unusual) situation like this – sometimes I thought that in front of me the image provided with instructions for use is not the best film language, I believe.
But I don’t want the form to be considered the main virtue of The Lunch Song, and I don’t want the main note to be the sad melodramatism so easily imposed by any elegy (well, you know, two, “formers”, many years, dinner, etc.). As in any worthy work of art, the private does not exist in itself, but carries in itself the common. Thus, the dinner of the two “ex” becomes a story about the eternal conflict between the desire to reclaim the past, in extreme cases, to blame it, and the persistent entropy of our world. You cannot enter the same river twice. And longing for the past only strengthens this truth.
Gennady Shpalikov has excellent lines:
Unfortunately or fortunately,
The truth is simple:
Never come back
In the old places.
Even if the ashes
It looks good.
Not finding what we're looking for.
Neither you nor me.
Alas, the past in our hands is always ready to crumble like fine parchment, like the wintered leaves of last year, dried by the spring sun. And we have no choice but to carry this dust in our chest pocket.
"He enters the elevator and descends, where the sunlight and the London parody of fresh air"
Alan Rickman’s velvet deep voice with a graceful British accent immerses us in the thoughts of his hero. Think of everything he sees and feels. But the most important thing in his mind are memories. He lives with them. Because his love lives there. In the past. I got into that half-drunken editor, the poet in the shower. I felt sorry for him. I thought about time. Time This is wealth! It flies fast, sparing no life, no feeling. Ruthless and impartial.
Is it worth talking about Alan Rickman? I think not. He's one of my favorite actors, and that's why the movie was made. He's brilliant here. No more, no less.
Emma Thompson is perfect. And over the years, her play is only more beautiful. She has amazingly beautiful, deep and infinitely kind eyes. I love it when they close up. And here just amazingly shot close-ups. Incredibly talented operator work!
"The tablecloths have lost their former patriotism"
The script, or rather the poem, is not what you liked, surprised. Only a very talented person could write so subtly, ironically and tragically. I want to quote a lot of things.
And the story itself is so piercing in its vitality! Yeah. This is real life, real feelings, this is true nostalgia for past times.
"I fell in love with your wrist"
And even the lack of music in the credits, which I do not like, did not spoil the film. Silence perfectly conveyed the feeling of loneliness, emptiness and sadness.
It makes so much sense. In every phrase, in every look... This is not even a film, but a real work of art!
10 out of 10
Who doesn’t know the sweet anticipation of dating? When each action is performed deliberately slowly and meticulously, in order to somehow bring the time that seems never to come and hide the mad excitement. When the date on the farthest away is not even a date, but just a meeting, an ordinary lunch, from which there is nothing to expect, which will not quench inner thirst and will not bring relief, but the hand, moved by timid hope, brings out the "b" He left for lunch. Maybe I’ll be late, and deep down you believe that no, you won’t be back... not today... you have other plans for today.
Who has not had to scroll through thousands of options in his head, choosing the most successful course of the event and choosing words and phrases that will fall into the heart and will not allow this meeting to end at least ever.
And who doesn’t know that things are usually different... Hands as if individual beings who have nothing to do with you do what wanders into their heads, someone else’s words are torn off from their tongue, for which they are unbearably ashamed, and the true song sounds only inside you, but no one hears it except you.
The Lunch Song is true poetry. There is no history and no action. Just one moment, just one lunch, like a rematch 15 years later, a lunch with a bitter taste of memories and a time that is so relentless and ruthless. This is a lunch for two people, for Him and for Her. What has happened in their lives over the years? How have they changed? Why are they here? together again – distant and at the same time native. What do they expect from this meeting? How will it all end? and will it end? Niall McCormick gave us a unique opportunity to watch this couple. Because during those 47 minutes, there was a feeling that we were watching them, trying together Neapolitan pizza, drinking a sip of breathed wine from a glass, feeling confusion and sadness inside, more and more hops with Him and making irreparable mistakes.
I don’t have anything else to say, because, as I said, it’s poetry. And there is no point in telling about this or that poem, you can only read it yourself and find inside those strings of the soul that will play your own song.
P.S. No, there's definitely something to add. It is impossible to overestimate Alan Rickman in this film. His facial expressions, gestures, assessments of everything that is happening around - speak the best of all words. Every word spoken behind the scenes is reflected on his face, every question, every phrase, every emotion is read in his eyes. What a powerful internal dialogue he had inside, because playing alone without text is much more difficult. And he plays in such a way that he tightens his eyes to himself, not letting go for a second. And how it changes every sip of wine! He's literally getting drunk right in front of his eyes! All! Not a word more, I’ll just add that it’s worth watching this movie for Rickman’s sake.
10 out of 10
And what else can you say when two such great actors as Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson are in the frame? This couple has met many times on the set, but here, in my opinion, their best, magical meeting.
39: The Song of Lunch is one of those films that reminds me of what I fell in love with film for. A sense of kinship, a sense of deep sympathy, sympathy and warmth for the characters still do not let me go after watching this picture.
He and She are such ordinary, modern, familiar passers-by or even ourselves. They have the happiness of youth behind them, the vanity of the present is on the agenda, and for the future... everyone has their own... although who knows, this is also Life. It's Life, the way it came together, what it did to us, and what we did to it -- that's the movie. Heroes just have dinner, but is it that easy? During this dinner, everything happens, everything turns upside down, and there comes an awareness of something very important. And what it is ' everything' and it' very important' I think everyone will understand for themselves. Just watch this movie!
Alan Rickman, my low bow to him, his half smiles, half movements, eyes convey so much that it seems and without words you can understand everything that the hero has in his soul. To show how vulnerable a man in love is, how his love changes, and how, even when he is overgrown with age and cynicism, he is defenseless against the power of love. . Enjoy this kind of acting! You can talk for a long time. Emma Thompson is really a muse of art, to describe her performance, but how? Their (Rickman and Thompson) game contains too much, there are so many important little things that you can not translate into text. I will write simply: thin, warm, soulful, vital. Do you have to admire this game for a long time? Sapienti sat, as they say.
The director made this film perfectly: beautifully, ironically, subtly, nothing superfluous, everything at the time, the actors’ play is filigree framed - as it should be. Thanks for the last few shots. And the story! I'm already quite crumbled in praise, so I'll say in numbers: '5 out of 5'. A lasting impression.
Thank you for making such films. Thank you for making these movies feel like it makes you learn something, because someone has the most important things to come, and who knows? Maybe this movie will change something. Life will put everything in its place, but in the meantime... enjoy watching!
10 out of 10