Love Songs - Adlabs films presentation in association with Handmade Films, a division of Alliance Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Love Songs - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - "Dare to Fall in Love".
Director : Jayabrato Chatterjee
Producer : Sunil Doshi
Cast : Jya Bachchan, Om Puri, Mallika Sarabhai, Rajit Kapoor & Shahana Chatterjee
Music Director : Usha Uthup
Lyricist/s : Jayabrato Chatterjee, Momin Khan Momim & Mir Taqi Mir
Cassettes and CD's on : Big Music Records
Singers : Usha Uthup, Shane Hyrapiet, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Channelle & Jojo Mukherjee
Audio Release Date : March 2008
But even though Mr. Honoré is trying something very interesting — and even though his nimble cast executes it with grace and more or less in tune — the execution doesn’t quite live up to the concept. No single element (apart from those song-lyric subtitles) is bad, exactly, but an element of coherence is missing. The musical numbers are restrained and not especially showy, but their tact makes them feel more rather than less self-conscious. The songs don’t sunder the naturalism that surrounds them, but they don’t quite enhance it either, and the result is a movie that feels, curiously, at once modest to the point of diffidence and feverishly overwrought.
The Paris of Christophe Honoré’s “Love Songs” (“Les Chansons d’Amour”) belongs unmistakably to the present. Its residents talk on cellphones and drop the name of Nicolas Sarkozy (still an aspirant to the Élysée Palace rather than an occupant when the movie was being shot). But they also dwell, just as noticeably, in the Paris of classic French movies — in a vague, bracing atmosphere of good old Nouvelle Vague.
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Director : Jayabrato Chatterjee
Producer : Sunil Doshi
Cast : Jya Bachchan, Om Puri, Mallika Sarabhai, Rajit Kapoor & Shahana Chatterjee
Music Director : Usha Uthup
Lyricist/s : Jayabrato Chatterjee, Momin Khan Momim & Mir Taqi Mir
Cassettes and CD's on : Big Music Records
Singers : Usha Uthup, Shane Hyrapiet, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Channelle & Jojo Mukherjee
Audio Release Date : March 2008
But even though Mr. Honoré is trying something very interesting — and even though his nimble cast executes it with grace and more or less in tune — the execution doesn’t quite live up to the concept. No single element (apart from those song-lyric subtitles) is bad, exactly, but an element of coherence is missing. The musical numbers are restrained and not especially showy, but their tact makes them feel more rather than less self-conscious. The songs don’t sunder the naturalism that surrounds them, but they don’t quite enhance it either, and the result is a movie that feels, curiously, at once modest to the point of diffidence and feverishly overwrought.
The Paris of Christophe Honoré’s “Love Songs” (“Les Chansons d’Amour”) belongs unmistakably to the present. Its residents talk on cellphones and drop the name of Nicolas Sarkozy (still an aspirant to the Élysée Palace rather than an occupant when the movie was being shot). But they also dwell, just as noticeably, in the Paris of classic French movies — in a vague, bracing atmosphere of good old Nouvelle Vague.
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