Video Cure

The TV Manchete offered us with 50 minutes of sophistication, visual beauty and the best of the music and the poetry of one of the biggest english music representatives. Special "The Cure", broadcasted by french television in 85, besides promoting the release of Standing On The Beach and the possible coming of the group to Brazil, is a good-taste class. Something rare when it is musical programs.
Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst, Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup and Boris Willians go for a walk in London, they caress plush bugs, play football, answer idiot questions and, above all, play music.
Presented as "Les Enfants Du Rock", Robert Smith and his friends tear in the live recorded scenes. Highlight for "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Killing An Arab" (a drop of the more radical and well happened synthesis of the Albert Camus' romance The Estranger ). Alternating scenes of shows with interviews, the best part is the one with the videos. Produced by Tim Pope, The Cure videos are exactly as they should be: a visual reading of the music and not cinematographic pseudo-routes of the lyrics. Pope translates Robert Smith strong and consistent poetry giving a sophistication show and creativity. One of the elaborated moments of the program comes with "The Blood". Taking advantage of the music spanish climate, the images in black and white show a ballerina couple that dance flamenco in a monastery rounded for sacred images and symbols. The images receive red graffiti that propitiate the movement and the blood tone to thing.
In the adorable "The Lovecats", dozens of kittens invade the scene while Robert Smith takes pains in movements, faces and mouths that, besides the music, are the fort of him. The surprise is in "Play For Today". Thin, short hair, Robert Smith of 1980 doesn't made a mistake with the 'darkness poet' as suggest some people that disrespect him.
(M.M.)