Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
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The Days Between 2001
"-the scene when Koji, drunk, starts speaking Japanese to Lynn for the first time (even though his words cannot be understood, neither by Lynn nor by the audience, it is clear that he's speaking from the bottom of his heart... we have this beautiful layer of sound, of pure expressive poetry);
_ the final scene, when Lynn is sleeping and Koji, awake by her side, takes off his headphones – as the sound of music overflows to the foreground of the filmic audio track – and positions it in Lynn's head, as she stays asleep, lying naked on bed." -
A Scene at the Sea 1991
This movie and the theme track (Silent Love by Joe Hisaishi)....this gonna haunt me in the most beautiful way possible.
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L’homme atlantique 1981
The roses are already out, at the bottom of the park. That sometimes they are not seen by anyone, during their entire life and that they hold themselves like that in their perfume, open, for several days and then fall to pieces.
I am in a state of love between living and dying.
While I no longer love you, I no longer love anything. Nothing, except you, still.
I have made a film out of your absence.
You stand: facing me, softly, in constant provocation, innocent, impenetrable.
You are the Atlantic man: You do not know this. -
Monster 2004
What a wonderful name it was, Johan......
“The Nameless Monster”
Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a nameless monster. The monster was dying to have a name. So he decided to set out on a journey to find his name.
But the world was a large place, so the monster split into two on his journey. One monster went to the East. And the other went to the West. The monster who went East came…
