Yet another foreign film showing at the Arts House, how can I resist? Immortal is a sci-fi film by the famed Yugoslav-born graphic novelist and director Enki Bilal. New York City 23rd centry with futuristic buildings and transportation infrastructure no less than The Fifth Element, where somehow all creatures live in different level. The highest level of all? A pyramid, where the gods reside.
What captivated me the most was the ending sound track by Venus. The title is Beautiful Days.
The storyline is somewhere bizzare but yet simple. It was about Horus, the falcon-headed Egyptian God who has only seven days to live. It was about a girl named Jill who could be an alien. And it was about a polictical prisoner, Nikopol, who has been cryogenised for 30 years. The main story was about how Horus has used Nikopol’s body to impregnate Jill.
Bizzare it is. Entertaining, definitely in an art way.
The ending song was a great song composed by Venus. A French band I have not heard of and the album can only be found in FNAC (a French music chain store). I manage to source out the lyrics. See below.
I wish i was mad
Fucked up and done
I wish i was bad
And completely wrong
I wish i was made
Rebuilt-up and fake
I wish i could lie
And never could fail
And live some beautiful days
In a magical place
Beautiful loves
Perfect and straight
Beautiful days
In a magical place
A new dream is born
The new freaks have come
I wish i was fast
And crazy as a dog
I wish i could last
As long as the gods
I wish i could be
Perfectly free
Wish i was a creep
Wish i made you bleed
And live some beautiful days
In a magical place
Beautiful loves
Perfect and straight
Beautiful days
In a magical place
A new dream is born
The new freaks have come
Beautiful days
In a magical place
Beautiful loves
Perfect and straight
Beautiful days…
9 replies on “Immortal – A Foreign Film with Beautiful Soundtrack”
This is so weird.
I have read parts of Bilal’s ‘Nikopol’ trilogy and I haven’t the context to understand.
I have also read some of Bilal some years ago. Hmm.. I will go check on the titles.
CSC – Oh mine … this entry has been buried for so long and you are the first to comment on this. Not only that, you have read parts of Bilal’s trilogy?
I seriously haven’t read any of his work. The film as I recall is very weird. It was shown in the art house (I think the Art Museum).
I have a 1988 Titan Books edition of Bilal’s ‘Gods in Chaos’.
Levitating pyramids, astronaut, a nude Horus and other nude Egyptian figures and more. Surreal? More than that. Far out.
Ooops, I managed to find another Bilal volume hidden in a high shelf.
1989 Titan Books edition. ‘The Town that didn’t exist’.
CSC – Oh dear. You sound like me. At times I have no idea if I have got the book and often worry that I will buy one that I already have.
So, nowadays, I use the library instead 🙂
Yes! With regards to books and also CDs, definitely. I have bought the same book or CD accidentally!
The library closes too early and a lot of what I want to read are in the reference section. Oh well. Such is life.
You know what? I don’t understand the Bilal volumes. The two of them.
The artwork in the two volumes were outstanding though.
CSC – Ah, yes, the reference section. I’ve been there before at the Central Library and it looks impressive. That’s right. Since we can’t borrow any of those books out of the library (great place for preparing for job interview by the way), I’d rather buy them.
I hope you get your books from Amazon.com though. I worked out the Maths. It is much, much cheaper to import the books from US (only take 5 days even with “standard” and “cheapest” shipping fees) even with shipping cost. The bookstores in Singapore is ridiculous in terms of pricing.
Beautiful movie. Love Baudelaire. Perfect soundtrack. With respect, I suggest those of you who found it ‘weird’ watch it a few times. And read some
Baudelaire.