CONTINUED FROM P.18 What is the story or the pictures you like to create with your work as Baby Et Lulu? We like to create an atmosphere of joie de vivre but also with the shadows of life and love that we embrace. We like to let our sassy and feminine sides come out to play and also enjoy our shared love of the ridiculous.
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But we also love to plumb the depths of passion and intensity and be unapologetic of this expression. It’s a great concept – how does it give you scope to expand and move creatively? I mean, could Baby et Lulu suddenly go German? We do joke about doing the German show! We would need to do some YouTube research on the great German songwriters and perhaps do a shopping spree for some cool lederhosen! Es ist ein gut idea!
time list (if she had a list). Some of Lulu’s all-time favourite films include Diva (Jean Jacques Beineix), Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte), Ridicule (Patrice Leconte), of course Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), which was just so delicious, delightful and with such an original voice. And more recently Lulu adored The Intouchables. What a film!
What should we expect for your show in Mullumbimby? Each show is different, but always uplifting and transportive. Our magnifique band are world-class musicians who we adore and we get to be fearless chanteuses because of their brilliance! We are often a bit silly and talk in a faux French accent between songs at times.
We get dressed up in froufrou frocks and sometimes put birds in our hair. We had a super fantastique time last year at the Mullum Music Festival and we’re looking forward to getting back to all ze beautiful people zere! Mullum Ex-Services Club, Friday 8pm. Tix & info: www. mullummusic.com.au.
BABY ET LULU AT THE MULLUMBIMBY EX-SERVICES CLUB ON FRIDAY
I was a huge Jacques Tatie fan when I was in my early twenties. What are your favourite French movies?
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Baby loved 37 degrees du Matin or Betty Blue as it was called here. She saw it on release in her mid-20s and it took her quite some time after the credits rolled to realise that she wasn’t Betty. She also loved the 3 Colours trilogy from the early 90s… even though these were made by a Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Also his sublime La Double Vie de Veronique, which is on Baby’s top five films of all
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24 June 10, 2015 The Byron Shire Echo
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The hero’s first line is ‘just doin’ my job, ma’am’; the hero’s last is ‘now we rebuild’, as he stands watching Old Glory waving proud over the rubble of San Francisco. If there was just an iota of tonguein-cheek interspersed in between – and Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson as that hero, Ray, is quite adept at irony – you could maybe forgive all the crap. But there’s not, and you can’t. A helluva ride (yawn) is promised when the Hoover Dam bursts in the opening ten minutes and it’s just one calamity after the next as the long-awaited earthquake along the San Andreas fault plays geology’s ‘terrorist’ to Ray’s indefatigable, dutiful courage. I’ve maintained a sneaking fondness for Johnson since I saw him sing Are You Lonesome Tonight in The Game Plan (2007), a neglected little charmer, but this is beyond the pale. Physically, he is like a black Michelin man, only with a smaller head. As a rescue service helicopter pilot, you can only wonder how they got him into the thing in the first place. His wife and sexy daughter (Caria Gugino and Alexandra Daddario) – both white for marketing purposes – do a lot of running from tumbling rooftop to tumbling rooftop, with their boobs bouncing in tight tops while shrieking and gasping more OMGs than you would see in an hour’s scrolling of Fb inanities. Buried beneath all the mayhem is the sobering knowledge that the west coast of the US, in the not too distant future, is almost certainly due for such a cataclysmic event, as tectonic plates irrevocably keep moving. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that there is somebody like Dwayne around to stay calm and indestructible and who, above all else, is able to remember more than a couple of lines of dialogue while enshrining Hollywood’s highest values. Admittedly, the sight of the ocean liner smashing through the Golden Gate Bridge is specky, but otherwise this is a movie of seismic dreadfulness – a frontrunner for Joe Cocker of the year.
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This is a curious film. Flaccid and muddled for much of the time, and way too reliant on the combined appeal of its charismatic leads, as a date movie it succeeds neither as rom-com nor dramedy and is held together by syrup and the bizarre – and frankly unbelievable – mystery surrounding the Bill Murray character. Because it is written and directed by Cameron Crowe, you know to expect a significant contribution from the soundtrack, and the music nails every moment without ever lifting the story into the realms of Crowe’s shimmering Almost Famous (2000). Brian Gilcrest (Bradley Cooper) is a military contractor – a vague occupation, for sure – who returns to Hawaii to cut a deal that will allow multi-billionaire Carson Welch (Murray) to launch a satellite into space. His military minder is Captain Ng (Emma Stone) who, for some unclear reason, thinks he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread the minute she meets him. Brian, however, is more concerned with coming to a rapprochement with Tracy (Rachel McAdams), the ex-girlfriend whose daughter Grace (Danielle Rose Russell) might very well be Brian’s offspring – it’s a lay-down misere that she is, but we are meant to be kept on tenterhooks (not to say tender hooks) until that dramatic revelation. One of the more interesting tangents involves the indigenous Hawaiians with whom Brian must negotiate. They wear T-shirts with ‘Hawaiian Born’ on the front and ‘American by Force’ on the back and at first you think that the serious issue of native land rights might be dealt with in more than just a glancing manner. To do that, however, would have put too sharp an edge on the waffle, as Brian, Ng, Tracy and Woody, Tracy’s dull and aptly named partner, sort out their matters of the heart. Ultimately, Welch’s scheme is foiled and, Crowe being Crowe, music saves the world. I’m a bit in love with McAdams, and I know plenty of others are with Stone and Cooper, so the outing wasn’t a complete dead loss.
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