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What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
Avida, the second film from directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern, opens with a close-up of thick gray lips moving like two slugs, then cuts to Fernando Arrabal dressed as a picador. He is seated in a dark hallway, agonizing over his fate, then enters a dusty makeshift ring and battles a rhinoceros. This is his suicide.
In the scenes that follow, the storyline of Avida descends into the wonderfully bizarre. Bathed in the fresh, undisguised style of the filmmaker’s absurdist and surrealist predecessors, Delepine and De Kervern’s film—the story of three men who kidnap a rich woman’s dog, then must help her fulfill a death wish—is kept consistently droll by their disuse of color; with the notable exception of one scene, the entire film is shot in black and white. It creates a stark, blatant world where lives operated by remote control seem lethal, and a break from it all seems necessary.
by Adam Balz | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
07 Oct 2007 12:15 AM | Comments (7)
why is the film called avida?
Avida is the dog-owner with the death-wish.
Adam B., Do you know the origine of the name Avida? If not, and you wish to know, please let me know.
I assume you mean the nickname bestowed on Salvador Dali by Andre Breton, who was disgusted with the artist’s sudden lust for money and celebrity. That, or the very cool-sounding software platform.
No, I mean the biblical name. For reference purposes please open the Book of Genesis, chapter 25, verse 4. It has nothing to do with Salvador Dali. Thank you for taking the time to reply.
And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
I have no idea what this has to do with the movie, but oh well, I’m sticking with “Avida Dollars”
Not much except the fact that the Hebrew of Abidah is Avida and it’s a male name in Hebrew. Good night
avida
8 October 2007
10:59 AM