Help me find this mysterious foreign film
April 8, 2013 2:15 PM Subscribe
Several friends and myself were sitting around draining the worlds supply of beer at the end of last summer, and decided to cap off the night by flipping on netflix. We ended up appointing someone to just pick a completely random movie just by the cover after a bit of arguing of what to watch... The trouble is, now none of us can remember what it was called.
I believe it was Spanish or French? Definitely European. The plot revolved around the afterlife, and everything was in sepia tones or black and white, or at the very least very muted colors. Everyone was going about their lives in this world where you could have anything you wanted. Opulent houses, fancy cars, etc. I don't remember if the premise was everything was free, or that everyone was rich. But the catch was that you couldn't derive any pleasure from anything, and there was absolutely no music, art, or anything creative in this universe. It demonstrated this pretty intensely by people who just had sex all day long desperate to feel something, and other little bits like that to really hammer in the fact that no one could get any enjoyment from anything.
Right before i got up and left, The main character had broken through the wall in his apartment in a rage, and behind the smashed bricks light was coming through, and the bricks inside the wall were in vivid color. Jazz music or something was coming out of the hole and he started climbing through to some sort of speakeasy, or something along those lines where people were actually doing pleasurable things and experiencing the joy, as opposed to feeling nothing.
My friends who watched more of the movie said it got even more interesting, but as i said, no one can remember what it was called. This has bugged all of us for months, and i've pretty much melted down google and any other site i can think of trying to find it.
Everyone i ask suggests Wristcutters or Pleasantville or something, but it's none of those. Ignoring the fact that neither of those are foreign, the premise is also quite different. I can't even find anything that sounds similar and it's killing me.
I believe it was Spanish or French? Definitely European. The plot revolved around the afterlife, and everything was in sepia tones or black and white, or at the very least very muted colors. Everyone was going about their lives in this world where you could have anything you wanted. Opulent houses, fancy cars, etc. I don't remember if the premise was everything was free, or that everyone was rich. But the catch was that you couldn't derive any pleasure from anything, and there was absolutely no music, art, or anything creative in this universe. It demonstrated this pretty intensely by people who just had sex all day long desperate to feel something, and other little bits like that to really hammer in the fact that no one could get any enjoyment from anything.
Right before i got up and left, The main character had broken through the wall in his apartment in a rage, and behind the smashed bricks light was coming through, and the bricks inside the wall were in vivid color. Jazz music or something was coming out of the hole and he started climbing through to some sort of speakeasy, or something along those lines where people were actually doing pleasurable things and experiencing the joy, as opposed to feeling nothing.
My friends who watched more of the movie said it got even more interesting, but as i said, no one can remember what it was called. This has bugged all of us for months, and i've pretty much melted down google and any other site i can think of trying to find it.
Everyone i ask suggests Wristcutters or Pleasantville or something, but it's none of those. Ignoring the fact that neither of those are foreign, the premise is also quite different. I can't even find anything that sounds similar and it's killing me.
Response by poster: Wow, mefi really is the best for this kind of stuff.
k8lin, that was our first thought too but it was some friend of a friends or some acquaintances parents account that was later signed out from when cookies were cleared never to be seen again.
posted by emptythought at 3:42 PM on April 8, 2013
k8lin, that was our first thought too but it was some friend of a friends or some acquaintances parents account that was later signed out from when cookies were cleared never to be seen again.
posted by emptythought at 3:42 PM on April 8, 2013
It's essentially the same plot as the divinely terrible Equilibrium, too. Which is a great bad movie, so see it if you havent.
posted by Sebmojo at 3:01 AM on April 9, 2013
posted by Sebmojo at 3:01 AM on April 9, 2013
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