There are quite a few movies where Placebo songs have been featured on the soundtrack while there’s only one where we can also see the band members as actors. You all surely know what one movie I mean...๐ so I’m not going to start with it, anyway it definitely needs a separate post. Let’s take a closer look at the other, less known, films.
Airbag is a Spanish postmodern comedy-thriller written and directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, starring Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillรฉn Cuervo, Alberto San Juan.
The movie offers a surrealisticly funny tale of adventures of a nerdy rich boy after his stag party.
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Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his fiancee's expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends "femme fatale" Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and, in the process, get involved in the war between gangs.
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๐https://bit.ly/2Ca4pgr
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ / ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (๐๐๐๐) - ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐
The Ice Rink is a French comedy written and directed by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, starring Tom Novembre, Mireille Perrier, Dolores Chaplin and Bruce Campbell.
Besides Placebo, soundtrack includes music by David Bowie.
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A hunky American hockey player arrives on the ice arena set of a French "hockey romance" film with a cast made up of the Lithuanian National Hockey Team who speak no French and a crew who cannot skate. The film director, being under tremendous pressure to meet an impossible deadline for the Venice Film Festival, tries to cope with his frantic producer, too-amorous actors, and a whole disaster-prone crew.
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๐https://bit.ly/3e3qSsN
๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (๐๐๐๐) - ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐
Cruel Intentions is an American teen romantic drama film written and directed by Roger Kumble and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film is an adaptation of the novel “Les Liaisons dangereuses” (Dangerous Liaisons), written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in 1782, but set among wealthy teenagers attending high school in New York City instead of 18th-century France.
๐ข๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐: "I studied drama, I know the original (Dangerous Liaisons) and we watched it on the tour bus when they wanted to use our song. I said: 'If he doesn't die in the end, if it's a happy ending, we don't do it.' It's quite perverted and manipulative, so the theme of the song fits in quite well.”
(๐ป๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ (๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐), "๐๐ข๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐", ๐ด๐๐๐๐ 29, 1999)
Every You Every Me is featured during the opening credits (famous scene when Ryan Phillippe is driving his Jaguar Roadster down a New York highway) and on the soundtrack, which greatly broadened Placebo’s exposure in the USA back then. Also, clips from the movie are included into one of the versions of Every You Every Me ๐๐๐ ๐๐.
๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ
๐https://bit.ly/3gzikM8
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Kathryn Merteuil and Sebastian Valmont are seductive, manipulative step-siblings who get what they want when they want it. Kathryn makes a bet with Sebastian: Sebastian must bed Annette, daughter of the headmaster at their school, before the end of summer break. Annette has stated that she would wait until love and marriage to sleep with a man. If Kathryn wins, she gets Sebastian's vintage 1959 Jaguar Roadster. If Sebastian wins, he gets Kathryn, the only girl he knows he'll never have. Also in play is Cecile, a naรฏve girl whose mother had enlisted Kathryn to help her fit in at her new school. However, Kathryn (with Sebastian's help) plans to ruin Cecile's reputation as revenge on Kat's ex-boyfriend, who left her for Cecile.
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๐https://bit.ly/2YZYqUo
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ / ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐́๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ (๐๐๐๐) - ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐๐
Bad Company is a French film starring Maud Forget and Lou Doillon. The movie is written by Alain Layrac, and directed by Jean-Pierre Amรฉris. It is a romantic drama about two young students falling in love.
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Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
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๐https://bit.ly/2YZFZQ4
๐ถ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ - ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐๐
๐https://bit.ly/2YW53XX
Tell Me Something (or Telmisseomding) is a South Korean thriller-horror-crime film about a serial killer directed by Chang Yoon-hyun. It was an early South Korean film to find success abroad as part of the Korean Wave and was selected to appear in the 2001 New York Korean Film Festival.
The movie features The Crawl on the soundtrack and includes a scene where the killer holds Without You I'm Nothing up to the camera before he kills his victim.
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It is the summer of 1999 in Seoul. Detective Cho is put on the case of a serial killer who amputates the limbs and heads of his victims and mixes body parts – as if he was collecting them for a specific purpose. The trail of victims leads to a beautiful young woman, Chae Soo-yeon, the daughter of a famous painter, a curator at the resoration section of the National Museum. It becomes apparent that she knew each of the victims and had dated them in the past. Soo-yeon's painful memories of youth are gradually revealed as she becomes close to the detective. In the end, Cho discloses very dark secrets, finding the real motives of the murderer.
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๐https://bit.ly/2O15idT
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๐https://bit.ly/2D6KU97
๐๐๐๐๐๐ & ๐๐๐ (๐๐๐๐) - ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค-๐๐ฒ๐๐, ๐๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ง๐ฒ & ๐๐๐ซ๐ฒ
Engel & Joe is a German movie directed by Vanessa Jopp (who’s also a director of Placebo’s ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐-๐ฌ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐) starring Jana Pallaske and Robert Stadlober.
It featured Black-Eyed in the film and on the soundtrack, and Johnny & Mary just in the film. It seems, the band attended the premiere. Clips of the movie were used in the Black-Eyed video.
The screenplay by Stern-reporter Kai Hermann is based on a true events and becomes a merciless yet poetic drama of youth.
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The runaway teenager Joe leaves her dysfunctional mother after being beaten by her lover Harry. She meets Engel and his punk friends on the streets and the boy shelters her in the abandoned building where he lives. Engel tells Joe that he dreams of living in the mountains in a community of his own, raising animals and planting his own food. They fall madly in love. This is true love: “๐โ๐๐ก? - ๐ป๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐ค๐ ๐๐? - ๐ด๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐ โ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ .” When Joe gets pregnant, the young couple face serious problems because of their unemployment and homelessness. When Engel then gets addicted to drugs, he drags Joe down with him to a life that includes prostitution, but ultimately there is a light at the end of the tunnel for them. Against all odds, their feelings promise a future for them if they overcome their fears and believe in their dreams.
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๐https://bit.ly/31L9ve8
๐ถ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ - ๐๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ง๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฒ
๐https://bit.ly/2BGkvP0
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Photo credits: Pic 1: Kevin Westenberg, 1998; movie posters / edit by Olga
Pic 2-4: Pat Pope, Neil Cooper, Mark C. O'Flaherty
Post by Olga
