tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879428412175121520.post6948493850501954631..comments2010-11-30T02:57:02.576+00:00Comments on Green Rays and Holy Whores: The Comfort of Strangers (Part Two)Rob Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04767205008124477422noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879428412175121520.post-90227315468771139402010-10-11T09:19:45.124+01:002010-10-11T09:19:45.124+01:00Interesting. I was thinking about Letter from an U...Interesting. I was thinking about Letter from an Unknown Woman in relation to these films actually. But you're right, there's a similar dynamic between the 2 guys in Partie and Liebelei. Ophuls is much kinder to his though..I especially like how Mitzi seems to humanise Theo against all odds (in fact, you kind of end up liking Theo more than Fritz by the end..don'tcha think?) Renoir had no time for such subtleties .. perhaps literally because of the run time, or maybe he cared less..<br /><br />re V.Soir subs, I wouldn't worry too much. The dialogue's pretty sparse.. and you can get by en francais after a couple of glasses of vin rouge, non?Rob Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04767205008124477422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879428412175121520.post-91998038752047500182010-10-10T22:55:54.477+01:002010-10-10T22:55:54.477+01:00Nice. The Renoir pair of men in their respective a...Nice. The Renoir pair of men in their respective attitudes (and in what occurs in spite of them) has always reminded me a little of the soldiers in Ophuls's Liebelei. Although perhaps that film has more to say about the danger in extending what should have remained a misbegotten one-night stand - there are far worse things, you know...<br />***<br />Man, I found a digital copy of the Denis but with portuguese subs - can't get the English ones to stick on VLC!<br />***<br />I recently saw the film you allude to in the title of this piece and it is GREAT. You'll eat it up (er, not in a Denis way...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com