Music Depeche Mode has been central to my imagination.
has marked the crucial moments of my life: rites of passage, love, fantasies, thoughts.
same can not be said for their video clips that I've always found it monotonous and unoriginal. Not to mention those that will be filmed by Anton Corbijn and a great photographer but at the level of director and concept is generally a tasteless boor (in this sense, I try to avoid watching Personal Jesus to avoid any type of irritation).
It is no coincidence that the only video shot for Corbijn Depeche Mode that I could be fully Useless , dark without complacency, shot almost entirely based on a fixed and Dave Gahan - escaped death, his voice convalescent - sore and angry by the words together, engaged to sing a serenade sulfur.
And then what else is in memory?
Surely the psychedelic video Leave in Silence, directed by Julian Temple that in the eighties helped to invent and launch the language of music video. And who first made me love the electronic sound of Depeche Mode:
is still to Freelove directed by John Hillcoat which I find wonderfully decadent: a rotten view of New Orleans illuminato da una luce fredda - filtrata da nubi grigie - che si va a rifrangere sull'erba verde e sulla terra marrone.
Un pezzo di bravura considerando che il regista e il direttore della fotografia hanno saputo trarre vantaggio dal tempo impazzito dell'anno di grazia 2003, sfruttando in chiave "pittorica" le instabili condizioni metereologiche della zona. Quasi un preludio elegiaco alla catastrofe biblica che avrebbe travolto The Big Easy qualche anno più tardi:
Godetevi musica e immagini e fate i bravi.
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