Well
yee-hah! Back in 1988, it turns out that stone-deaf David Lynch – THE
great artist of unsettling alien hospitality – decided to make a film
from the HOST's point of view for once, a gorgeous little project for...
Actually, before I go on, if this sounds like your kind of thing and
you've half an hour to spare, then watch it here first. Very
much not the kind of thing Lynch would make nowadays, but SO MUCH the
kind of thing he made back then, it's funny to see just how starkly his
mood has changed (his stuff's still fun, but not nearly so silly. This
actually makes quite a nice companion piece to "Tomatoes Another Day", now
I think of it.)
And no, all I was going to say before I cut myself off
was that this piece was actually commissioned by a French television
station for a season "The French as seen by..." And the reason I cut
myself off was that I only learnt this fact after I'd watched the piece
and can't be sure I'd have enjoyed it as much if I'd known before.
Conversely though... if I hadn't known beforehand that it was directed
by David Lynch I might not have enjoyed it AS MUCH. I don't think I was
cutting the film more slack, I just think that, this way round, I was
seeing more in it. More than if I'd known it was a film made
specifically for an audience with English as a second language in order
to address views on the French (which it beautifully doesn't do anyway).
Authorship though, hm...
Another point of reference for Money's machine now I think of it
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