Saw a talk on Renoir the other day. The highlight was the unused footage from Une Partie de Campagne

I'm nerdy enough to enjoy hearing Renoir say 'coupez' and watching his son using the clapper board but I felt like I was dreaming watching the main love scene again and again, and then wakening up every time the scene was over and Sylvia Bataille switched off her rapture and laughed at the camera. It is of course the classic 'man-won't-take-no-for-an-answer' scene but I won't comment on patonamu's 'Romantisized rape scene fantasy of a Man' comment (at bottom of imdb page.

I left before the question session to go to the screen next door for Breakfast On Pluto followed by a Q+A with Neil Jordan and Cillian Murphy. As Neil Jordan says, the film is 'picaresque' and 'not plot-driven' so there is a slight sense that it's just a bunch of stuff happening until it finishes rather than having a sense of climax and resolution. But it's great, and Cillian Murphy really is awesome. All the other performers are great too, including Gavin Friday and his glam rock covers band.

B-)