Is This the Greatest Music Video Ever Made? And It’s By a Canadian?
FYI Music points us in the direction of “Libertine,” a 24-minute (!!!) epic by Quebec-born Mylene Farmer. And it’s much more than a music video. It’s something that Stanley Kubrick might have dreamed up. There are elaborate period costumes. Battles. Sweeping cinematography. Full-frontal nudity. Sex. A cast of…well, a lot.
This mini-drama was shot in in France and cost about $300,000 to make. Watch and be amazed. (And yes, it’s kinda NSFW. But if you’re caught, explain that this is art.)
I find the thing that most disturbs me about this video is the officer drinking his tea from a cup and saucer on horseback – must the British always have their tea time everywhere they go.