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Helmut Newton had a saying: â
Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps.â The German photographer, who emigrated to Australia after World War II, meant this: You should not mix work with pleasure. Itâs a curious idiom for an auteur whose work is so deeply rooted in the idea of pleasure itself: in the beauty of the female body, in the celebration of sex, in the freedom of movement and the sheer joy and oddity of creativity itself.
But according to film director Gero von Boehm, itâs a motto that made Newton the success he was. With his ability to separate his work from his personal life, he could see clearly the wonder and depth of his own inventiveness, and was able to cajole subjects â everyone from Isabella Rossellini to Grace Jones â into enacting this into imagery.
Released in 1988,
The Big Blue is based on real-life free-diving frenemies, Frenchman Jacques Mayol, played by Jean-Marc Barr, and Italian Enzo Maiorca, renamed Enzo Molinari in the film, played by legendary Jean Reno. (Reno also stars alongside Natalie Portman in another Besson film,
This and That: an evening with the smooth assassins of ‘La Femme Nikita’ and ‘Leon: The Professional’
Luc Besson has a thing for assassins, hitmen and professional killers, and his two best films on the subject are streaming right now at SBS On Demand.
The Big Blue became the highest grossing film of the 1980s in France. It’s easy to see why: even though it is heavily fictionalised, the men the characters are based on are fascinating. Jacques Mayol (1927–2001) was a free-diving legend. In 1976, he broke the 100-metre record, with a no-limits dive off the coast of Elba, Italy. During the dive Mayol’s heartbeat dropped from sixty to twenty seven beats per minute. This ‘mammalian divi
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This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival is due to kick off on August 5 in cinemas (restrictions pending), with online screenings from August 14. Before the festival gets under way, take a look at our selection of the 10 best movies to see.
Deux Fois.
DEUX FOIS
Jackie Raynal’s one-of-a-kind 1968 experimental feature aims to bring about nothing less than the end of meaning – and whether or not you feel that task has been accomplished, you won’t see anything else like it at MIFF. Like
Word is Out (see below) this is part of a genuinely adventurous retrospective of films made by or associated with collectives, in this case France’s semi-legendary Zanzibar Group.
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