This movie is a kind of comedy, I don’t like to say that but maybe I should say a family movie. It feels like a fairy tale or something you used to watch during the christmas period when you were a kid mostly because of the singing parts and because it takes place during the Ming Dynasty, wu xia pian style.
After a few minutes watching the movie you progressively understand what it really is. It’s not only funny but touching, not ridiculous at all but really clever. You will notice several references to Wong Kar Wai’s movies (law n°2046, the main caracter says he learned much during his “days of being wild”, freeze frames and voiceovers… even the music played when “King Bully” Tony Leung comes back in town quite resembles the killing theme in Fallen Angels. “Cause i’m cool” Do you remember ?).
The reason is that the director Jeffrey Lau, is the man who founded Jet Tone films with Wong Kar Wai. And it’s produced by Wong Kar Wai. With Chinese Odyssey 2002, the two directors manage to make fun of their own work and affect us in the same time.
I won’t say much about the plot, it’s up to you to discover the film but I will only say that Faye Wong plays a princess who try to escape from her destiny and live the real life and, of course, she will fall in love with the character of Tony Leung.
The two other main characters are played by Chen Chang and Vicki Zhao.
The actors are really good as usual (especially Tony Leung who handles both the humor and the emotional moment well), costumes are great, production design is nice, the singing parts are fun, the movie had some feel good effect on me.



It’s funny how trailers don’t say anything about what movies really are.

Wolfen (Michael Wadleigh, 1981), Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967), Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986), Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982), The Himmel über Berlin (Wim Wenders, 1987), Faraway, So Close (Wim Wenders, 1993), Havana (Sidney Pollack, 1990), Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980), Je t’aime Je t’aime (Alain Resnais, 1968), Le Bunker de la Dernière Rafale (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1981), Nightbreed (Clive Barker, 1990), Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1976), Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982), The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980), The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956), The Omega Man (Boris Sagal, 1971).
Pt. 1 / Pt. 2 / Pt. 3

Die Bettwurst on imdb.

Timo Eränkö : Frank
Kari Heiskanen : Frank
Asmo Hurula : Frank
Sakke Järvenpää : Frank
Sakari Kuosmanen : Frank
Mikko Mattila : Frank
Pate Mustajärvi : Frank
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius : Frank
Matti Pellonpää : Frank
Martti Syrjä : Frank
Pantse Syrjä : Frank
Pertti Sveholm : Frank

Here is the synopsis for Lap rouge (Thanks to Imdb):
The camera pursues the life of two Dutch brothers, Herman and Egbert over the course of several months. Their mother wanted to disassociate herself from the petty bourgeois atmosphere in Holland during the fifties. In 1959 she took her two boys and left for Marnhac, a deserted village in southern France. After living in France for the the next 35 years both brothers have become almost fully alienated from society. They don’t have the courage to leave their very aged and dominant mother.

And here is Kutzooi, a later film from Crijns:

Now I guess you’re just wondering what it sounds like. Here it is:

I couldn’t find any digital release of this collection. And the records are going amazingly pricey on eBay.

You can stream his first EP here.

It’s about to be released in a few days on
Tri Angle records).

The video for a his already well-known track Seaww.
More songs on Myspace.

WHY? – These Hands / January Twenty Something from anticon. on Vimeo.

Cool video for the two first songs on Eskimo Snow.