La rose de ferAKA
The Iron Rose
Okay, this is sort of funny. So I'm watching this last night on TCM. It's about 10 minutes in and the two main characters are on their first date and biking around town (and I am incredibly bored. More-so because it's late and I didn't know I'd be watching subtitles, but I digress). I'll admit, some arthouse films I like more than others.
So far all I've seen is a boring wedding reception and these two running around a fog filled train yard. There's been very little dialogue and I'm thinking about changing the channel. Anyway, the two characters bring their bikes to a stop in front of a stone and wrought-iron fence and spew forth the largest string of dialogue uttered in the film so far:
Man: Are you tired?
Woman: Yes a little.
Man: Lets stop here......
And I swear to you the first thought in my head was, "Dear God, I hope they get lost in a cemetery somewhere..."
Guess where I find out they stopped in front of not 5 seconds later.....
Art thou kidding? 
Suffice it to say I was right on the money (Could my brain, without conscious thought, concluded that large fences located in the middle of European towns usually contain a cemetery or a park and it mearly picked the more morose of the two? Sure. But I prefer to think that I'm psychic.)
What follows is a muddled tale about love, eroticism, and death.
That would be a cherub's fingerless hand.It's beautifully shot
And I guarantee that by the time it's half way through you'll want to shoot the male lead for being an overly dramatic idiot. (Though, if what I've read up on is correct, nobody on set liked him much.)
I was a bit disappointed at first, as my tv guide had told me that this was a "horror" movie. It is not. It certainly works on one of the fundamentals of horror, the fear of getting lost, but it is far more surreal than horror. So if you like those kinds of movies, this is right up your alley.
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