Vendredi Soir

Claire Denis. La autopista del Sur. Emmanuèle Bernheim. We got here on a suggestion from the Spanish Professor. I have things set up now so I can see art films on two screens and this film is good for that since it is very painterly, with thick textures.

In this film you have to notice things such as how the cigarette and the heater, which do not occupy the same space-time, light up at once – as another character draws a breath and the camera takes half a step back. Sometimes I think all films should be in French.

Axé.


8 thoughts on “Vendredi Soir

  1. Have heard of and am convinced would like but have not seen. (I am behind on all film due to not having had the currently invented setup – wherein I have seen Berlin Alexanderplatz and this, twice.) You could have a site like Feminema’s, she has not seen all film. You could claim it as “service to the profession” – I am not quite joking!

  2. “J’éprouve la nostalgie de mon enfance inquiéte, de ce désir d’etre grand en amour, des heures passés, comme la présente, á contempler la pluie avec une tristesse native”.

    Federico García Lorca (1919)

      1. Oui, je la connais……et

        “Ce qui s’en va ne reviens jamais,
        chacun le sait,
        et dans le grand tumulte des vents
        il est vain de se plaindre,
        n’est-il pas vrai, liard, maitre de la brise ?
        Vain de se plaindre !

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