an Italian Damon Runyon story (Marcello Minds the Baby!) with a bit of the Jeunet/Caro avalanche of real world complications.
You're right that getting trapped for hours on the roof of a greenhouse while the couple inside loudly hash out their relationship issues is totally something that would happen to the protagonists of Micmacs (2009). I wonder if the Runyon connection could have been intentional. He was adapted for film prolifically in the U.S., and as a comparison it sounds absolutely right to me, but I don't know what his international popularity was like. Anyway, we should be able to get hold of a copy: anticipating my needs as usual, Criterion has put the film out on DVD and I will gladly watch it with you again, assuming they haven't screwed up the subtitles à la The Seventh Seal. I really just loved everything about it.
(I have incredibly ambivalent feelings about the fact that it was apparently remade in 2002 as the American Welcome to Collinwood. On the one hand, completely unnecessary. On the other, starring Michael Jeter? Damn.)
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You're right that getting trapped for hours on the roof of a greenhouse while the couple inside loudly hash out their relationship issues is totally something that would happen to the protagonists of Micmacs (2009). I wonder if the Runyon connection could have been intentional. He was adapted for film prolifically in the U.S., and as a comparison it sounds absolutely right to me, but I don't know what his international popularity was like. Anyway, we should be able to get hold of a copy: anticipating my needs as usual, Criterion has put the film out on DVD and I will gladly watch it with you again, assuming they haven't screwed up the subtitles à la The Seventh Seal. I really just loved everything about it.
(I have incredibly ambivalent feelings about the fact that it was apparently remade in 2002 as the American Welcome to Collinwood. On the one hand, completely unnecessary. On the other, starring Michael Jeter? Damn.)