Thank you for that glimpse of Manoel de Oliveira. What an old film can do to
project the feeling of the transience of life, a deep longing, and the
beauty of what does not exist any more _ or if it exists, not the same at
our eyes.
On 6/6/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> BELLE TOUJOURS
>
> via Manoel de Oliveira
>
>
> But . . . hold on.
> Excuse me.
> Lifts are on the left.
> Lucky I came in here.
> Exactement.
>
> That made me very curious
> of customers; feel the need to confess
> unbalanced sexuality.
> Just drink till the end
> of thirst,
> understand,
> resident in his expressionistic face:
> saints were sinners.
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 6-5-07 (7:02 PM)
>
>
> Watch this cameo appearance of the major Portuguese director Manoel de
> Oliveira in Wim Wenders' 1994 "Lisbon Story"
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87mRFMdFAgk
>
> and imagine how, at age 98, he directs a film in which two major figures
> in
> Luis Bunuel's "Belle de jour" encounter each other unexpectedly 38 years
> later.
>
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