“I’m looking for a world full of mysteries and possibilities,” says Jim, who has just arrived from Essex to London. Soho is the right place for him. Although the young man is robbed in the first night, but a little later, a future opens up perspective. He learns the Raconteurs know, a four-member group of young men, who offer him a job.
their business model: Sex, followed by a style full of conversation. They have specialized in elderly gentlemen you about painting, literature, and Film talk. So Jim gets First training course: Caravaggio, the house sacred to the group, up to Rainer Werner Fassbinder the range. The German film Director, he learns: “A genius has been destroyed by Sex, drugs, and cheap Russian vodka. Most important works: fear eats the soul‘.“
Post-modern and retro in love at the same time
Steve McLean, writer and Director of spirited art-house film “Postcards from London”, is an admirer of Fassbinder. In his last Film “Querelle” – in the centre: a gay sailor – plays the British Director, among other things, that in the regular bar, the Raconteurs usually some of the guests standing around with a sailor hat. The Setting is stylized in the highest degree, and reduced, which gives the work a theatre-like appearance.
The action is largely set in interiors, natural light penetrates into not only setting. There are a lot of neon light, intense colors and contrasts – McLeans tribute to the Baroque light master Caravaggio. Some of his paintings such as “The entombment of Christ” he makes of his actors in tableaux vivants. In the center of the trained Harris Dickinson (“Beach Rats is always on”), Jim with a fine blend of sexy innocence and burgeoning self-consciousness embodied.
He is the Muse of an old painter, Francis bacon’s young Lover George Dyer as a role model. However, strange fainting spells he experienced when Viewing great works of art to hinder him in his work. While Jim is unconscious, and imagines himself in the painting and hits sometimes the painters themselves – what can already be a bit silly. “Postcards from London” is not, in any case too seriously. The Film is a queer Gimmick with quotes, colors, and images, postmodern and retro in love at the same time, beautiful to look at, with no claim on a deeper effect.
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