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The lunatics have taken over...

My dad and I went Christmas shopping at Borders the other night and he bought an early Christmas present for the whole family. We got home and were deciding what movie to watch when he told me about the DVD he'd bought for us. I wondered which new release or British-TV-series-on-DVD he'd thought of, since these are the sort of thing we usually get.

I tried to guess. "Have we seen it recently?" I asked. "I haven't seen it for... probably about thirty years," he answered. "Wait, have I ever seen it? Then why do you think I'd like it?"

Turns out, my dad knows what we like after all. Although I'd never heard of it, Le Roi de coeur was apparently very big in the 60s and showed in Ann Arbor for something like three years straight. It's a French movie about a Scottish WWI soldier (played by Alan Bates) who is sent to defuse a bomb left in a French town that the Germans hoped to destroy so that the British forces couldn't take it over. The inhabitants of the town hear about the bomb and evacuate, but leave behind everyone in the insane asylum. When Alan Bates' character is looking around the town, he leaves open the doors and gates to the asylum and the residents escape and take over the town, declaring him their king. They are crazy and innocent and don't understand the war or death that's going on around them and he comes to be attracted to this way of thinking. It was really quite lovely - if you're looking for something to rent, this is certainly something very different!

srah - Thursday, 23 December 2004 - 9:23 AM
Tags: movies

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