When You Get Older

After all these years I have finally understood the references in these two music videos that I used to watch on MTV. It was when M still meant "music" and  music itself was better. At that time I didn't know anything about Italian Neo-Realism or French New Wave.

Linger is a homage to Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" and "Everybody Hurts" is a homage to Federico Fellini's "81/2".
I'm not a fan of Godard's movies. I do recognize that he writes great dialogues though. I like Fellini's works and my favorite movie is "I Vitelloni".
 It is hard to believe that these music videos were made more than 20 years ago.