Park Chanwook on his NEXT FILM: "I am a Cyborg"

"It's a love story about a girl who imagines she's a cyborg and a young man in his early 20s with a compulsive theft disorder,and he begins to think that that she can steal the abilities and personalities of other people."

Now, why the hell didn't I think of this. Where's the Collective Unconscious when you really need it.

Can't wait to see it.

FILMS

CODE UNKNOWN by M. Haneke should have been called "Point Unknown" or "Plot Unknown."

DON'T MOVE was fantastic, much like (as Rob pointed out to me) THE SON'S ROOM . So similar, in fact, that I had to check to see if they were made by different directors. The Son's Room and Talk to Her.

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE

Well, Irene Jacob. Wow. Kieslowski was trying to get at the truth between people, in moments alone, or moments shared (that would NEVER be shared in documentary circumstances). The way he did this, and did this so perfectly was by writing simple moving scenarios (very difficult to write simply) and casting. The actor is everything in Kieslowski. Watch THE RETURN for an example of this attention in a contemporary director (plus The Return is a brilliant film). Irene Jacob's eyes reveal paragraphs of dialogue and movement in a simple look or a slow blink. I'm also struck by how similiar this film is to RED.

Slawomir Idziak shot Veronique and Bleu. I wish he was shooting Cinemanovel...hmmm...is Poland cold in February?