The MADAME Lounge

[Zu]

Sometimes paths are best left UNCROSSED!

 

[jivafox]

 

[Zu]

I know that Céline is supposedly the QUEEN OF COUTURE but she frequently looks quite ridiculous, UNLIKE SOME

Oh darling it’s just a DIOR I had knocking around!

 

[jivafox]

 

[jivafox]

I love how MADAME is just receiving it with no false humility

 

[Zu]

Oh I love that one

BOW AND SCRAPE A BIT MORE COULD YOU LUV

 

[Peekaboo]

God what a woman HONESTLY!

 

[Peekaboo]

at THIS. Both looking LOVELY and clearly delighted to be there!

21st century Dracula starring MADAME preying on young hot bare-naked TOWN BOYS. You know you want to BESSON MAKE IT HAPPEN.

 

[jivafox]

21st century Dracula starring MADAME preying on young hot bare-naked TOWN BOYS. You know you want to BESSON MAKE IT HAPPEN.

I’m going to write this IMMEDIATELY

 

[Zu]

I hope nobody minds me taking the liberty of changing “thread” to “lounge” in the thread title but it sounds so much more cosmopolitan and continental and I feel sure that MADAME would approve

Has anyone bought their tickets for the Barbican yet? I really MUST get on with it!

 

[jivafox]

Ooh ME TOO. Thankfully there are still LOTS available.

 

[Jark]

This is truly the greatest lounge on Moopy.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Sorry loves, but it’s time to cancel this Roman Polanski enthusiast.

 

[Phoenix]

Is she defending him?

 

[Zu]

NOBODY is cancelling MADAME

I think she’s being a bit of a tit as well and I’m not condoning it by any means but we’re talking about ONE SOLITARY OPINION. Obviously I’m all for cancelling The Fizz because of Adolf Aston and her Nazi ways but that’s just shitty old Bucks Fizz

 

[Zu]

And anyway, we all know what the FRENCH are like

Incest and all sorts apparently legal and presumably ENCOURAGED!

 

[Jark]

 

[jivafox]

Then let’s cancel HOLLYWOOD.

 

[Jark]

CANCEL MADAME? over my DEAD BODY (which, in a certain type of Huppert cinema, would probably form the basis of a très provocative masturbation scene for madame )

 

[Zu]

Then let’s cancel HOLLYWOOD.

Might as well just cancel LIFE IN GENERAL!

 

[Zu]

Whilst on the subject of MADAME, here she is chatting about VÊTEMENTS et COUTURE

https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/isabelle-huppert-style

Hand me my Breton top, would you @jivafox

 

[Peekaboo]

MADAME à dit que LYNCHING IS A FORM OF PORNOGRAPHY which is a VERY MADAME way of saying CANCEL CULTURE IS WRONG (which I HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH).

 

[Dark Carnival]

Is she defending him?

Apparently he's being LYNCHED, and she cites William Faulkner saying that lynching is a sort of pornography.

 

[Dark Carnival]

What happened last weekend at the César Awards was fucking appalling. It was a pure and disgusting display of power by the male dominated French film industry. Leading up the the awards, Portrait of a Lady on Fire actress Adèle Haenel opened up about being sexually harassed at 12 years old by French director Christophe Ruggia. On the other hand, Polanski's latest film J'accuse being nominated was causing quite a controversy.

So you had a film by a convicted child rapist with 12 nominations going against Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a pure incarnation of feminism really, with 10 nominations. Portrait of a Lady on Fire was completely snubbed, and not only J'accuse was awarded but Polanski himself won the ward for best director. See there was this whole debate about separating the art and man behind it before the ceremony, except they actually decided to hand him the ONE César that actually awarded the person

I'm not saying that Portrait of a Lady on Fire should've won this or that award, but in the context of everything leading up to the ceremony this was a very clear message being sent by the old guard.

 

[Dark Carnival]

So, no Isabelle, Polanski isn't being lynched, he's being fucking CELEBRATED

 

[Jark]

"Over my career, I have made more than 100 films, shot a lot of magazine covers, and walked endless red carpets; yet there is still nobody outside my inner circle who could tell you what I do on a Saturday night."

 

[Zu]

Obviously I’ve never been one for demonisation or launching into scathing online diatribes about how disgusting people are and how they deserve to die () but this cancel culture thing really has started to grate. No-one is completely terrible. I know it also forms part of lounge culture but after Caroline Flack died, I reached the point of wanting to dial it down and keep an eye on what I was saying. (Well, maybe slightly)

 

[Dark Carnival]

No one is asking anyone to be perfect not to be cancelled really. It's just not THAT HARD to see that celebrating a convicted child rapist is WRONG.

 

[Zu]

Except they’re not celebrating child rape (and I very much doubt that this is Madame’s intention). They’re celebrating the film. I know what you’re saying but there has to be room for distinguishing between the two. Or maybe there doesn’t? DISCUSS

 

[Peekaboo]

The Polanski case is fascinating (from a LEGAL PERSPECTIVE) and I think is worth discussing but if we are going to TARNISH MADAME with this we should do it with every single other person who has expressed support for Polanski and then you'd have to PRETTY MUCH DELETE the film forum:

Fatih Akin
Stephane Allagnon
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodovar
Wes Anderson
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Alexandre Arcady
Fanny Ardant
Asia Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Olivier Assayas
Alexander Astruc
Gabriel Auer
Luc Barnier
Christophe Barratier
Xavier Beauvois
Liria Begeja
Gilles Behat
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Marco Bellochio
Monica Bellucci
Djamel Bennecib
Giuseppe Bertolucci
Patrick Bouchitey
Paul Boujenah
Jacques Bral
Patrick Braoudé
Andre Buytaers
Christian Carion
Henning Carlsen
Jean-Michel Carre
Patrice Chereau
Elie Chouraqui
Souleymane Cisse
Alain Corneau
Jerome Cornuau
Miguel Courtois
Dominique Crevecoeur
Alfonso Cuaron
Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jonathan Demme
Alexandre Desplat
Rosalinde et Michel Deville
Georges Dybman
Jacques Fansten
Joël Farges
Gianluca Farinelli
Jacques Fansten
Etienne Faure
Michel Ferry
Scott Foundas
Stephen Frears
Thierry Fremaux
Sam Gabarski
René Gainville
Tony Gatlif
Costa Gavras
Jean-Marc Ghanassia
Terry Gilliam
Christian Gion
Marc Guidoni
Buck Henry
David Heyman
Laurent Heynemann
Robert Hossein
Jean-Loup Hubert
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Gilles Jacob
Just Jaeckin
Alain Jessua
Pierre Jolivet
Kent Jones
Roger Kahane,
Nelly Kaplan
Wong Kar Waï
Ladislas Kijno
Harmony Korine
Jan Kounen
Diane Kurys
Emir Kusturica
John Landis
Claude Lanzmann
André Larquié
Vinciane Lecocq
Patrice Leconte
Claude Lelouch
Gérard Lenne
David Lynch
Michael Mann
François Margolin
Jean-Pierre Marois
Tonie Marshall
Mario Martone
Nicolas Mauvernay
Radu Mihaileanu
Claude Miller
Mario Monicelli
Jeanne Moreau
Sandra Nicolier
Michel Ocelot
Alexander Payne
Richard Pena
Michele Placido
Philippe Radault
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Raphael Rebibo
Yasmina Reza
Jacques Richard
Laurence Roulet
Walter Salles
Jean-Paul Salomé
Marc Sandberg
Jerry Schatzberg
Julian Schnabel
Barbet Schroeder
Ettore Scola
Martin Scorsese
Charlotte Silvera
Abderrahmane Sissako
Paolo Sorrentino
Guillaume Stirn
Tilda Swinton
Jean-Charles Tacchella
Radovan Tadic
Danis Tanovic
Bertrand Tavernier
Cécile Telerman
Alain Terzian
Pascal Thomas
Giuseppe Tornatore
Serge Toubiana
Nadine Trintignant
Tom Tykwer
Alexandre Tylski
Betrand Van Effenterre
Wim Wenders

 

[Zu]

Oh my

Woody Allen’s a surprise

 

[Zu]

I’m surprised that grubby old Gaspar Noé didn’t stick his (quite substantial - I’ve seen the wanking sequence in Irreversible ) oar in

 

[Dark Carnival]

Except they’re not celebrating child rape (and I very much doubt that this is Madame’s intention). They’re celebrating the film. I know what you’re saying but there has to be room for distinguishing between the two. Or maybe there doesn’t? DISCUSS

Except they're not celebrating just the film really, he won best director, him as a person. Any other award for the film and that complete excuse of an argument might have some sense, not that I see it in the slightest.

It's funny that the same argument is never used with other professions. See I know this baker, who in his time liked to nonce up a child or two, but that's ok really because he baked SUCH NICE BAGUETTES.

 

[Zu]

It's funny that the same argument is never used with other professions. See I know this baker, who in his time liked to nonce up a child or two, but that's ok really because he baked SUCH NICE BAGUETTES.

But that’s because’s baking’s not ART

OR IS IT?

 

[Peekaboo]

I understand where you are coming from, but to be perfectly honest, if a baker had NONCED some kids FORTY YEARS AGO and PAID HIS DUES, and then turned out to be a brilliant baker, I think we should be better than to STRIKE HIM OFF any possible list of being a human being of ANY WORTH ever again.

The problem with Polanski is that he never paid his dues (debatable). Samantha Geimer (the girl he raped) has publicly forgiven him.

 

[Phoenix]

Yeah, I like some of his stuff (which I watched before I knew he had sex with a child) but I don’t see the point of awarding his new films while knowing what a creep he is.

 

[Phoenix]

Also the subject of the movie itself is quite contentious if I remember correctly

 

[Zu]

Madame does actually look faintly embarrassed in that interview

 

[Phoenix]

She should be, considering the utter garbage she’s been starring in lately

 

[Peekaboo]

Yeah, I like some of his stuff (which I watched before I knew he had sex with a child) but I don’t see the point of awarding his new films while knowing what a creep he is.

If by his "new films" you mean everything he has made since 1979 onwards... you may have a point. He won an Oscar in 2001!