“The Favourite Game”, also called “Le jeu de l’ange”, is a Canadian film. The plot setting of “The Favourite game” begins with this piece of pure whiteness in a park of Montréal and also ends there:
The story is about Leo’s relationship with two women Shell and Lisa. In real life, Leo is deeply being in love with Shell. I captured a couple of fantastic scenes of them:
When they fell in love, their image in the moon was absolutely beautiful and I captured the moments when the night was approaching to them and they were gradually merged into the moon:
This sunset image is also almost perfect:
When they separated, Shell’s sadness was artfully expressed through the car mirror:
Here comes Leo’s “true love” in his childhood memory:
“Lisa the child had evaded me and was still perfect, suddenly making all other women less perfect. They were still beautiful, but somehow less crucial.”
“Lisa the child, that perfection remained, preserving the past. Everything could be preserved forever, like my connection to Shell, and in that moment, I remembered.”
“I remember flying over the snow and landing. And then I carefully stood up to look behind me at a perfect imprint, both human and angelic, in the perfect whiteness behind me, and that, that was the favourite game.”
A perfect novelist and a perfect director made this film perfect in their sense of being perfect.
True love is pure and perfect and it is a series of perfect moments in your memories, especially the childhood memory, almost angelic, the pure perfect whiteness.
I think that the film should be called “The angelic game” to match “Le jeu de l’ange”.
“The Favourite Game” was adapted from the novel of the same title. The author of the novel is the Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen. The protagonist of the novel is also called “Leo” and it’s an autobiographical novel.
Leonard Cohen is a typical idealist, a hopeless romantic perfectionist. Only a perfect childhood memory meets his sense of “true love”, which is non-existent in real life.
He’s after all a prince charming with a charm that doesn’t grow old with age. He’s featured in a new Sony commercial “2 Worlds” in which he recites a specially written verse called “That’s What I Heard You Say”.
Leonard Cohen – A thousand kisses deep
(Spoken Poem)
Don’t matter if the road is long
Don’t matter if it’s steep
Don’t matter if the moon is gone
And the darkness is complete
Don’t matter if we lose our way
It’s written that we’ll meet
At least, that’s what I heard you say
A thousand kisses deep
I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see, I’m just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second hand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep
I know you had to lie to me
I know you had to cheat
You learned it on your father’s knee
And at your mother’s feet
But did you have to fight your way
Across the burning street
When all our vital interests lay
A thousand kisses deep
I’m turning tricks
I’m getting fixed
I’m back on boogie street
I’d like to quit the business
But I’m in it, so to speak
The thought of you is peaceful
And the file on you complete
Except what I forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep
Don’t matter if you’re rich and strong
Don’t matter if you’re weak
Don’t matter if you write a song
The nightingales repeat
Don’t matter if it’s nine to five
Or timeless and unique
You ditch your life to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep
The ponies run
The girls are young
The odds are there to beat
You win a while, and then it’s done
Your little winning streak
And summon now to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life as if it’s real
A thousand kisses deep
I hear their voices in the wine
That sometimes did me seek
The band is playing Auld Lang Syne
But the heart will not retreat
There’s no forsaking what you love
No existential leap
As witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep
