Have you ever heard about the movie "Jour de fête (1949)" by Jaques Tati? I saw that last week and I really appreciated this scene, very simple. It's just the man of the marry-go-round, looking at the window of a girl he had seen that afternoon, in the main square of the village.
He is staying, for the day of the festival, in a caravan with his wife, but the young lady will keep him absent-minded for a quite a while, while preparing his stuff.
It's a scene of few seconds, but everything is perfect and Tati only used two colours: blue and yellow, and two lights, one supposed natural (the moon) and the other artificial (from inside), maybe presenting two different types of living: the man is a nomad, but the girl has her house and her room.
Could have that love ever worked?
Just with two colours.
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And here you are another "pearl" from the same movie:
It's Tati himself, playing the main role (the postman of the village) excaping from a car of American policemen.
After the displaying, at the temporary cinema, of a documentary of the new technologies used in the USA for the post delivery (elicopters, super-bikes, huge ships and whatever is needed to get the most efficent result) he wants to be as efficient as his colleagues.
After a number of funny sketches, he tries to excape because he's riding his bicycle too fast, and the policemen want to stop him.
But then, in the middle of the fields, he manages to run away simulating a mock telephone call (while riding...) using a phone that he should deliver to a lady.
All the scene is an interesting project of landscape design, I suppose, natuaral but "directed" in an intelligent way.
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