When your late evening conversations start on famous Scandinavian film avant-garde Dogma 1995 manifesto… and end with watching the cheesy apex of Jean-Michel Jarre's cheese-laden career:
https://youtu.be/GYio7l7B940?si=MLzGAJU31Jaa3oAd&t=953
Rendez-vous Houston (Full Video) - Jean Michel Jarre
(in case you're curious: yes, there's a link.
Lars von Trier, who was at the forefront of Dogma 95, went on making Melancholia, with Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of French music legend Serge Gainsbourg, and Jane Birkin. Melancholia also featured Charlotte Rampling, who was married to Jean-Michel Jarre. Jean-Michel Jarre was himself the son of Film soundtrack legend Maurice Jarre – Lawrence of Arabia's among many others – and became a synthesiser music star of his own in the 80s…)
So just to summarise, the son of the guy known for composing that:
https://youtu.be/Qr5E54nCDg0?si=uNH3ie4ghBDrBDVn&t=69
… became famous for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLEZM_N0K8
… and was married to an actress who starred alongside Woody Allen, Timothee Chalamet and countless others:
The 80s were a wild time.
@deivudesu You keep on talking about JM Jarre in the past. I was afraid he was dead for a second.
(TIL that he's been married with Gong Li for the past 7 years or so... Gong Li who's now 60... I sometimes forget that people age... although in her case, I have doubts)
@David wow. didn't even know about the whole gong li thing (to be fair, only discovered the Charlotte Rampling part while looking her up on wikipedia through said rabbit hole convo).
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