MY COMMENT IN ELUSIVE LUCIDITY’S BLOG
http://elusivelucidity.blogspot.com/2007/04/broken-by-middle-class-dream.html
I really have little knowledge about classical cinema, but I’ve seen three old movies by Mark Robson, and I like that the good characters in the films are rebellious and the bad ones are the authority. These three films are THE GHOST SHIP (1943), ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945), and BEDLAM (1946). The bad ones in these films are really evil, though. There are no shades of gray in them. But I think these films are very encouraging for the audience who don’t like to obey.
MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE LEFT A COMMENT IN MY BLOG HERE:
http://celinejulie.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/retrospective-wish-list/
Reading Memories of the Future’s comment makes me feel very glad to find another person who likes Robbe-Grillet and Duras.
I have browsed through a book called DURAS BY DURAS, which is a gift from Sonthaya Subyen, and find something very interesting. Marguerite Duras talked about her dream after INDIA SONG was shown for the first time.
>>Duras: Did I tell you what I dreamt? Once the film was mixed, that is, finished, audible, visible, I left on my vacation. Without showing it to anyone, I stayed away for two weeks. And when I came back, they screened the film a week later. The next day, for two successive nights, I had these dreams: the first night the place where I was living in Trouville, my little place, was burglarized. It didn’t have windows any more, you couldn’t see the sea, you had to climb up on a stool to see the sea; they even stole the property—it was much smaller—and all the furniture, the view. The next day, the second night, I dreamt that my identification papers, my money and my purse was stolen. I was on a train that was rushing along, no one cared about the theft. I was crying and people were saying to me, “See how she is, never happy.”
Xaviere Gautier (the interviewer): That was just after showing it for the first time?
Duras: Yes, I had been dispossessed, not only of a given area, a place, my habitat, if you will, but even of my identity.<<
What a fascinating quote! And reading her novels (and my limited exposure to her films), the loss of identity and dispossession seems to be a rather common theme she kept revisiting over and over.
If you haven’t seen it already and you have access to it, you really should take a look at the film Cette Amour-la, with the aging Jeanne Moreau playing the aging Duras. It’s a beautiful little movie, and I was very pleased that even though it’s a biopic of sorts, the director was able to give little Duras-like touches in the way the narrative unfolds. I have some extended thoughts here. It’s not much of a review, but gets my general thoughts across.
Comment by jesse — April 20, 2007 @ 4:14 am
Bah, the link doesn’t work. How about this?
Comment by jesse — April 20, 2007 @ 4:15 am
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Jesse, I reply to your comments by writing a new post.
Comment by celinejulie — April 22, 2007 @ 1:08 am