Eye Prefer Paris Movies

Last night I went to the MK2 Bibliotheque, my favorite Paris movie theater complex by the Francois Mitterrand Library.

The theater is located in an interesting part of the city in the 13th Arr. and is unlike most of Paris. When you get off the Bibliotheque metro stop on the new #14 line, you ride 3 long escalators up to a vast complex of new modern glass buildings on newly built streets and outdoor cafes with that are English Pubs, pizza joints, and Micro breweries. The architecture was well done but not distinctive. For all its modernity and the cafes trying not to be French, I couldn’t help feeling like I was not in Kansas/Paris anymore, but maybe in a well-designed Cleveland industrial park instead.

It was about 7:30PM and it was still clear and sunny and the light was hitting the glass buildings in a way that was ripe for picture taking.

A Tree Grows in Bondage?

The MK2 Bibliotheque is cinephile’s dream come true, housed in a huge glass complex with 14 luxurious and comfortable theaters. There is also a café, a restaurant with good solid food, bookstore, DVD store with a superior collection of popular and hard to find DVD’s, and a movie memorabilia store. I especially like the restaurant with it’s all red modern spacious interior and hip diners. It is one of the few restaurants in Paris where the tables are spread out enough so that you don’t need a chiropractic adjustment because your shoulders have been cramped for two hours like in most Paris restaurants. It’s fun to spend the day here and I have had many enjoyable ones combing through the DVD store finding DVD’s I’ve never seen before, having a long relaxed un-cramped lunch and parking myself in a Lazy- Boy type seat to watch a movie.

I saw a Colombian film called “Rosario” about a hard living beautiful young woman living in Medellin who struggles with her life of drugs and prostitution. It was a well-done, highly emotional drama from a female character’s point of view that showed the world of the Colombian drug trade in a way I’ve not seen before.