3 things that occupy me today:
1) this song by nico and everything it stirred in me when i listened to it on the bus.
2) christophe honoré's film making plans for léna (aka non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser). i watched it last night, in a dark and not so crowded cinema (norton st) where it screens as part of the french film festival. last week i re-watched dans paris, so this was a fitting follow up. and again, so much to think about. this is family drama, but it hovers somewhere between realism, comedy, philosophical statement, and cinema nouvelle vague. it's not easy to summarise these characters. a halfway summary might be: erratic, emotional, impulsive, beautiful, lost. so of course, i wept and laughed and totally submitted myself to its uneven narrative.
i think this is why i love it (and other honoré films). there's no sense of grand narrative, there's no obvious motives of audience pleasing or appealing to the narrative structure that most audiences expect. it's just an experience that you either submit to or not. reading online reviews, it seems that many do not. the more i watch such films, the less i'm able to watch most american & australian films. which is a good thing, non?
3) lyotard and dissension. but more on that later
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