Post by davidhr on Jun 29, 2010 11:47:25 GMT -5
The publicity for “Mlle. Zhivago” continued this past week, with additional clips and TV shows. In a (perhaps foolish) attempt to summarize the clips we’ve been exposed to so far…
***Bouquet d’hiver (Winter bouquet) – During World War II, Lara is shown up on a roof with Maks Barskih, her lover, who later dies on his way to meet her when he’s run over by a truck. The song “Lou” is playing in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRrdl8FBG7w
*** La même Karénine (Anna Karenina) – A love triangle ends in the woman’s death, but she arises from the ashes…The song “Stop” plays in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTHzdK2L9k
***Morphine – Lara as a vampire. The song “Mlle. Hyde” plays in the background.
Various photos of Lara from this clip are available on larafabiannews.com
***Lullaby – Lara in a concentration camp. “Lou” plays in the background here as well. Numerous videos of the making of this clip are available on the Mlle. Zhivago facebook site.
***Runaways (also known as ‘Fugitives’) – a world without women. Not clear what song this is associated with. On the facebook site, day 1 – as the title suggests, Lara is pretty much absent (probably until the end).
***Tokami – the sensual woman. Lara as a passionate blond, in the episode that has gotten the most play on Russian TV, e.g.,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIVu55rp8w0
***Mr. President – A women president? Some photos available from Christina’s site, www.larafabiangmtb.com/2010/06/mlle-zhivago-news-24.html
*** Portrait de famille (also known as Beating) – A woman suffering spousal abuse. A picture is available at:
www.larafabiangmtb.com/2010/06/mlle-zhivago-news-26.html
***The beginning – Earth vs. aliens in the near future, where love saves the day. A picture is available at Christina’s site shown just above.
We also know that ‘Fragility” and “Mom” are two of the other clips. Corrections/additions to this list are very welcome!
In various interviews, the participants have indicated how the filming is going. Lara stated that “Lullaby” was the hardest for her personally, due to the circumstances involving torture at concentration camps. She said that she burst into tears and wanted to leave. “Morphine” apparently took some 24 hours to film, and everybody at the finish was so tired they looked like they had been the victim of vampires.
Both Lara and the director Alan Badoev attempted to explain the connecting link between the different clips. (Thanks to Aleksanda for translation of the Russian interview.) Badoev, said they were a creating a generalized image of women, whose social function changes in each time period and is very complex. Lara explained that the generalized image/complexity resulted from an eternal duality – “that women are very strong, and their strength can accomplish improbable things, yet at the same time, they constantly need someone. The duality – fragility and strength – results in a constant battle”. She goes on to say that “Finally, one can say that in life women lose this war constantly, in effect, their social roles are prescribed in advance: she gives birth to children, giving up herself, and all of her aspects cannot be discovered”. With respect to herself, Lara indicated that in resolving this constant battle between strength and need, she “looks for it each day, and sometimes finds it a little”.
Lara’s fall is shaping up as perhaps the busiest/most productive of her career. According to Mickey2010 on the official site, TLFM and EWIM will be released in Quebec in mid-September, and she will be there to promote it. Then, on September 27th, the digipack DVD/CD of “Toutes les femmes en moi font leur show” will be released; it will include the live show filmed in Brussels (with Gerard as artistic director), and the unreleased TLFM1. The indication is that Lara will be back in Belgium/France to actively promote it, too. “Mlle. Zhivago” will be released in the countries of Eastern Europe on October 25th (the same date that Pitiblog is indicating), as a combination CD and the DVD of the ‘musical film’; it will also be available from Lara’s website. It will not be available commercially in France until 2011, at which point the French release will have all the songs in French! [If true, so much for a separate French release of “Le Secret”). We know that Lara then has four concerts planned for Moscow/St. Petersburg in early November, and the claim is that she will add some intimate acoustic concerts in Paris during the fall to satisfy her fans’ curiosity.
We shall see how much of this comes to pass in just this way; we’ve been fooled too many times in the past to believe anything until it actually happens. As if we need any reminders, note that Lara’s interview scheduled for last week on Radio Quebec has still not been aired. And obviously she did not go to New Zealand for Mlle. Zhivago filming.
Christina has put on her blog an instrumental version of “Gottingen” that Matt Herskowitz has released on his new album. A stringed instrument plays the role of Lara’s singing. It is available at:
www.larafabiangmtb.com/2010/06/gottingen-tlfm1-preview-matt-herskowitz.html
No question that the instrumentation is sophisticated and attractive. That was not the problem with the 6 songs we heard – it was that the instruments were mixed up front so much that Lara’s voice was barely audible in places, and her singing in any event was not forceful. Hopefully the mixing, at any rate, will be improved for the subsequent TLFM1 release.
Lara’s concert in Turkey will take place this coming Friday. Fans there who have wanted to surprise her in some way (as was done during her last tour) have met resistance from the local concert officials, for whom this is apparently too novel. Otherwise, filming of the remaining Mlle. Zhivago videos is supposed to last through the week.
David
***Bouquet d’hiver (Winter bouquet) – During World War II, Lara is shown up on a roof with Maks Barskih, her lover, who later dies on his way to meet her when he’s run over by a truck. The song “Lou” is playing in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRrdl8FBG7w
*** La même Karénine (Anna Karenina) – A love triangle ends in the woman’s death, but she arises from the ashes…The song “Stop” plays in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTHzdK2L9k
***Morphine – Lara as a vampire. The song “Mlle. Hyde” plays in the background.
Various photos of Lara from this clip are available on larafabiannews.com
***Lullaby – Lara in a concentration camp. “Lou” plays in the background here as well. Numerous videos of the making of this clip are available on the Mlle. Zhivago facebook site.
***Runaways (also known as ‘Fugitives’) – a world without women. Not clear what song this is associated with. On the facebook site, day 1 – as the title suggests, Lara is pretty much absent (probably until the end).
***Tokami – the sensual woman. Lara as a passionate blond, in the episode that has gotten the most play on Russian TV, e.g.,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIVu55rp8w0
***Mr. President – A women president? Some photos available from Christina’s site, www.larafabiangmtb.com/2010/06/mlle-zhivago-news-24.html
*** Portrait de famille (also known as Beating) – A woman suffering spousal abuse. A picture is available at:
www.larafabiangmtb.com/2010/06/mlle-zhivago-news-26.html
***The beginning – Earth vs. aliens in the near future, where love saves the day. A picture is available at Christina’s site shown just above.
We also know that ‘Fragility” and “Mom” are two of the other clips. Corrections/additions to this list are very welcome!
In various interviews, the participants have indicated how the filming is going. Lara stated that “Lullaby” was the hardest for her personally, due to the circumstances involving torture at concentration camps. She said that she burst into tears and wanted to leave. “Morphine” apparently took some 24 hours to film, and everybody at the finish was so tired they looked like they had been the victim of vampires.
Both Lara and the director Alan Badoev attempted to explain the connecting link between the different clips. (Thanks to Aleksanda for translation of the Russian interview.) Badoev, said they were a creating a generalized image of women, whose social function changes in each time period and is very complex. Lara explained that the generalized image/complexity resulted from an eternal duality – “that women are very strong, and their strength can accomplish improbable things, yet at the same time, they constantly need someone. The duality – fragility and strength – results in a constant battle”. She goes on to say that “Finally, one can say that in life women lose this war constantly, in effect, their social roles are prescribed in advance: she gives birth to children, giving up herself, and all of her aspects cannot be discovered”. With respect to herself, Lara indicated that in resolving this constant battle between strength and need, she “looks for it each day, and sometimes finds it a little”.
Lara’s fall is shaping up as perhaps the busiest/most productive of her career. According to Mickey2010 on the official site, TLFM and EWIM will be released in Quebec in mid-September, and she will be there to promote it. Then, on September 27th, the digipack DVD/CD of “Toutes les femmes en moi font leur show” will be released; it will include the live show filmed in Brussels (with Gerard as artistic director), and the unreleased TLFM1. The indication is that Lara will be back in Belgium/France to actively promote it, too. “Mlle. Zhivago” will be released in the countries of Eastern Europe on October 25th (the same date that Pitiblog is indicating), as a combination CD and the DVD of the ‘musical film’; it will also be available from Lara’s website. It will not be available commercially in France until 2011, at which point the French release will have all the songs in French! [If true, so much for a separate French release of “Le Secret”). We know that Lara then has four concerts planned for Moscow/St. Petersburg in early November, and the claim is that she will add some intimate acoustic concerts in Paris during the fall to satisfy her fans’ curiosity.
We shall see how much of this comes to pass in just this way; we’ve been fooled too many times in the past to believe anything until it actually happens. As if we need any reminders, note that Lara’s interview scheduled for last week on Radio Quebec has still not been aired. And obviously she did not go to New Zealand for Mlle. Zhivago filming.
Christina has put on her blog an instrumental version of “Gottingen” that Matt Herskowitz has released on his new album. A stringed instrument plays the role of Lara’s singing. It is available at:
www.larafabiangmtb.com/2010/06/gottingen-tlfm1-preview-matt-herskowitz.html
No question that the instrumentation is sophisticated and attractive. That was not the problem with the 6 songs we heard – it was that the instruments were mixed up front so much that Lara’s voice was barely audible in places, and her singing in any event was not forceful. Hopefully the mixing, at any rate, will be improved for the subsequent TLFM1 release.
Lara’s concert in Turkey will take place this coming Friday. Fans there who have wanted to surprise her in some way (as was done during her last tour) have met resistance from the local concert officials, for whom this is apparently too novel. Otherwise, filming of the remaining Mlle. Zhivago videos is supposed to last through the week.
David